Welcome to Day 4 of Older Adult Mental Health Awareness Week!

Universal Access to Care

We are excited to bring you Day 4 of our awareness week campaign and share today's theme about the importance of our persons having fair and equitable access to care. Having universal access to care is crucial to the mental health of older people who often face compounding challenges when it comes to finding, selecting, and financing their care plans.

Resources for today's theme: 

• WHO: Healthy ageing- a priority for delivering universal health coverage (technical brief) 
• MIT's AgeLab- Caregiving and Well-Being
• Universal health coverage must include older people
• World Health Organization's newsroom- Ageing and health
• World Health Organization's newsroom- Misconceptions on ageing and health 

Up-Coming Event Announcement

• 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.