Welcome to Day 2 of Older Adult Mental Health Awareness Week!

The Importance of Healthy Lifestyle and Healthy Ageing

We are pleased to introduce today's theme with a video message from IPA Board member and IPA Early Career Network advisor, Tomas Leon.

We hope that you enjoy learning about the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing by exploring many of the different resources and articles they have put together to help raise awareness for this important topic.

Resources for today's theme: 

• The United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing- Video Introduction
• The United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing- Explore the Platform to learn even more about today's topic
• The Global Strategy on Ageing and Health- baseline report by the World Health Organization 

Up-Coming Event Announcement

• UNIDOP 2023 has a kick-off event to be broadcast via UN Web TV that will involve a multi-stakeholder dialogue aimed to address the topic: "Fulfilling the Promise of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for Older Persons Across Generations". This event will take place today, Monday, October 9th from 10 AM - 1 PM EDT. See this event in your local time.
• Join Dr. Tedros, Director-General, WHO and Mr. Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, on Monday 9 October at 12:30 CEST (See this event in your local time) for the launch of the WHO/OHCHR joint publication entitled "Mental health, human rights and legislation: guidance and practice”. Click here to see the full event flyer. The event will be moderated by Mr. Daniel Bergner, a highly esteemed writer for The New York Times Magazine. Register here via Zoom.