How societies can ensure that the additional years gained translate into healthy, productive, dignified and equitable lives for all?

 

This year's commemoration, The Age of Longevity: Rethinking Systems for Longer Lives, invites Governments, civil society, the private sector, researchers and older persons themselves to examine how societies can ensure that the additional years gained translate into healthy, productive, dignified and equitable lives for all. The event in New York is sponsored by The Permanent Mission of Argentina to the United Nations. Organized by United Nations Department of Economic andSocial Affairs Programme on Ageing in partnership with the NGO Committee on Ageing in NewYork. The event will include a keynote address followed by a moderated, interactive panel discussion. Time will be reserved for interactive dialogue with participants.

The commemoration aims to:

 • Examine how longer lives are reshaping health, social and economic realities over time, including the need for health systems, labour markets, social protection frameworks and public financing arrangements that are better aligned with the realities of longer lives, as well as the opportunities that healthy longevity can generate for individuals, communities and economies.

 • Highlight evidence on the factors that influence well-being in later life, with a focus on the social, economic and environmental determinants of health across the life course, the importance of prevention, and the cumulative effects of inequality on ageing trajectories. 

• Explore how policies and systems can better respond to longer lives, including through ageinclusive labour markets, lifelong learning, expanded social protection coverage for informal workers, integrated care models, and whole-of-government approaches that reflect the interconnected nature of longevity across sectors. 

• Share perspectives from different regions on the experience of ageing, recognizing the significant diversity in how population ageing is unfolding across income levels and geographies, and the importance of solutions that reflect local realities and lived experience. 

• Encourage dialogue between research, policy and practice, drawing on insights from demography, geroscience, economics, public health and human rights to support evidence-based responses to the opportunities and policy implications of an ageing world.