[Database] Promising interventions to prevent and respond to abuse of older people

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“WHO’s new database is a critical first step towards developing and scaling up cost-effective solutions to address abuse of older people, which has been highlighted as one of five priorities to tackle the issue during the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021–2030),” said Dr Etienne Krug, Director of the Department of Social Determinants of Health, WHO. “It is high time to do more as a global community to address this neglected but seriously harmful problem. I encourage all stakeholders committed to ending the abuse of older people to use and build on this evidence-based tool.”

The database contains 89 promising interventions identified through a rigorous search and screening of nearly 14 000 scientific studies. The aims of these interventions include:

• improving knowledge of abuse of older people among professionals to increase the likelihood of detection and reporting;
• raising awareness of the issue;
• reducing mental health symptoms among victims of abuse; and
• preventing abuse