Description
Rising life expectancy presents the Autonomous Province of Trento with two main challenges regarding the health of older people: increasing the number of years lived in good health and addressing social and health needs in an effective, equitable and sustainable manner.
The World Health Organisation defines healthy ageing as the process of developing and maintaining functional abilities that enable well-being in later life.
The health, economic and social aspects of increased life expectancy are investigated by PASSI d’Argento (seethe dedicated page here), the monitoring system on the living conditions of people aged 65 and over, coordinated by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, of which the Province has been a member since 2012.
The latest available data on the health status and lifestyles of people aged 65 and over living in Trentino, published bythe Epidemiological Observatory of the Integrated University Health Authority of Trentino (ASUIT), can be consulted.