Efforts to address the Sustainable Development Goals in older populations: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021-2030) seeks to create multisectoral changes that align healthy ageing with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Given that the SDGs have completed their first five years, the objective of this scoping review was to summarise any efforts launched to directly address the SDGs in older adults in community settings prior to the Decade. This will contribute to providing a baseline against which to track progress and identify gaps.

Methods

Following Cochrane guidelines for scoping reviews, searches were conducted in three electronic databases, five grey-literature websites, and one search engine between April to May 2021; and limited to entries from 2016 to 2020. Abstracts and full texts were double-

SUBMITTER: Shevelkova V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9996959 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature