Healthy Aging knowledge center
"How to build and foster
a community health ecosystem"
The knowledge center content is authored by Nanno van der Laan,
programme manager, innovator, healthy aging expert and digital health guru.
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Healthy aging: the long and short term goals.
Healthy aging: the long and short term goals.
As we're heading towards a health crisis with an unprecedented cost/budget overrun with all European nations, we should be asking ourselves why successful healthy aging initiatives have failed to emerge. It's time to act now - considering the prospect of ~200 mln citizens of 55 years and older in 2050, ~40.6 % of 500 mln people, facing an increasing and early deterioration of health and wellbeing.
+5 years healthy life expectancy in 2035
+5 years healthy life expectancy in 2035
The long term goal, the HLE+5 goal, is to provide five extra years of a healthy life. In EU27 this goal is to be reached by 2040, in the UK this is 2035.
healthy aging implementations in 2027
healthy aging implementations in 2027
An analysis of the healthy aging landscape in 2023 showed that there's been no successful healthy aging implementations in Europe yet; other than some project oriented samples.
The definition "successful" includes 'making an impact*' - both in terms of demonstrating health gains [increasing health and wellbeing] and lowering the pressure on the healthcare system [saved or avoided costs]. Considering the long term HLE+5 goal this is worrisome as it takes considerable time to implement and scale healthy aging / community health initiatives.
(* Note: this goal was set by Nanno van der Laan)
About the knowledge center: guidelines/best practices for Healthy Aging (Communities)
About the knowledge center: guidelines/best practices for Healthy Aging (Communities)
The knowledge center will host, over time, guidelines and best practices describing how to enable/facilitate successful implementation of Healthy Aging. It'll contain expertise and experiences describing the essentials to foster successful implementations of community health addressing healthy aging needs.
Important sections in the guidelines are focused on adopting the MSP programme management framework, used by the author for 20+ years. Also past experience in establishing and managing public private partnerships [PPP] as well as experience with IT and technological advancements as enablers for healthy aging/digital health innovations will be listed. The result is a set of guidelines, best practices, a cookbook for stakeholders, for a head start approach (or at least a risk averse approach) to deliver impactful healthy aging solutions.
The best practices are a 'recipe' - published as Google Slides [presentations] - describing best practices including samples for the inception of community health (healthy aging) initiatives. It targets those who are directly involved, in various roles as a beneficiary, stakeholder, visionary leader, facilitator, change agent, owner/funder/entrepreneur, health innovator or strategy director to tackle innumerable collaboration challenges.
Our best practices relies on innovative health concepts and a solid and proven framework, applying techniques that increase confidence and competences to deliver successful outcomes. A personal touch is added by including references to practical tools that will enhance the productivity of the teams.
The first publication will be available by mid-Q2 2025
We will gradually add content such as
the importance, including samples, of collecting persona's (a use case portfolio) ;
implementing decision support (including samples) ;
the focus on processes vs the focusing only on data ;
the move towards Combined Lifestyle Interventions [CLI's] ;
[how to] establish impact ;
etc.
Feel free to get in touch with me - connecting with Nanno van der Laan on LinkedIn.
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