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The National Adaptation Plan, implemented by the Ministry of the Environment and the Government of New Zealand, is a plan that aims to help all New Zealand citizens, including older persons cope with the current and anticipated impact of climate change. This plan outlines specific actions over the next six years to enhance resilience across sectors and communities, with the plan proposing measures to improve bulding standards, target government insurance schemes and support community relocation, whilse emphasising awareness campaigns to prepare older persons or cliate hazards and to promote adaptation strategies.
Beneficiaries include coastal communities, rural populations, low-income households, disabled persons, and Māori and Pacific peoples who are disproportionately exposed to climate hazards.
The programme integrates resource management, emergency response, and three-waters reforms, enhancing national resilience by improving risk awareness and coordinated adaptation tools.
Developed from the 2020 Climate Change Risk Assessment, the Plan was refined through public consultation with local government, iwi/Māori, Pacific communities, NGOs, and businesses. It set six-year rolling actions across multiple ministries, combining legislation reform, policy measures, and data-sharing platforms.
It is New Zealand’s first integrated, whole-of-government adaptation plan, built on inclusive consultation and systemic reform—making it replicable and resilient.
The National Ageing Policy (2017-2030), implemented by the Cambodian Government, is a framework that addresses the multifaceted challenges of population ageing. Key initiatives of the policy include expanding social protection, incentivizing age-friendly workplaces, promoting healthy ageing and ensuring access to quality healthcare and geriatric services. The policy also emphasizes caregiver training, community support and protection against elder abuse, whilst preparing younger populations for ageing through awareness campaigns.
Cambodian citizens aged 60 and above, especially vulnerable groups—older women, rural elders, those with disabilities or financial insecurity. It also includes the younger population in awareness and intergenerational support strategies.
NAP 2017–2030 laid out a phased implementation through a Three-Year Action Plan (2018–2020), operationalized across nine priority areas like financial security, health, living arrangements, older people’s associations (OPAs), and intergenerational relations. A coordinating body—the Cambodia National Committee for Older People—was empowered to monitor and review implementation.
The policy was crafted through broad stakeholder consultation, aligning with national strategic frameworks and global ageing commitments. It launched in phases, with the first Action Plan (2018–2020) operationalizing initiatives through ministries, civil society, and development partners.
It offers a holistic, phased, and inclusive approach—translating a long‑term ageing vision into structured, coordinated action that bridges policy and community implementation through cross‑sector partnerships.
China launched the National Demonstration Age-friendly Communities Programme to promote age-friendly community development across urban and rural areas. The programme encourages communities to improve the physical environment, accessibility, community services, social participation, health services, digital inclusion, and community governance for older persons. A national assessment framework was developed to guide implementation and evaluate communities against standardized criteria. National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China (National Office on Ageing).
Older persons living in urban and rural communities.
The programme established a standardized national framework for assessing and recognizing age-friendly communities and has supported the development of demonstration communities across China, promoting more accessible environments and age-inclusive community services.
The programme was developed by the National Health Commission as part of China's national strategy to actively respond to population ageing. Communities voluntarily applied to participate, while provincial health authorities organized training, technical guidance, and evaluations. National assessment criteria covering areas such as housing, mobility, community services, social participation, technology support, and management were used to evaluate applications. Communities meeting the required standards were recognized as National Demonstration Age-friendly Communities.
The programme provides a comprehensive and standardized framework for creating age-friendly communities that integrates physical infrastructure, services, participation, and digital inclusion. Its clear assessment criteria, multi-level implementation mechanism, and nationwide applicability make it readily scalable and adaptable to other ageing societies.
China established the National Demonstration Programme for Integrated Medical and Elderly Care to strengthen the implementation of integrated care policies through a standardized demonstration and evaluation mechanism. The programme supports the creation of demonstration counties, districts and institutions, using national criteria to assess governance, service quality, coordination mechanisms and innovation. Successful demonstration sites are officially designated and promoted as models for wider replication across the country.
Local governments, integrated medical and elderly care institutions, service providers, and ultimately older persons receiving integrated care services.
The programme established a nationwide implementation framework for integrated medical and elderly care. Under the 2025–2030 Work Plan, approximately 100 demonstration counties (cities or districts) and 100 demonstration institutions will be designated every two years. The programme also introduced standardized evaluation criteria, dynamic management mechanisms and regular reassessment to support continuous quality improvement and nationwide replication.
The programme was launched by the National Health Commission to strengthen the implementation of integrated medical and elderly care policies through a structured.
The programme goes beyond service delivery by establishing a national implementation, monitoring and quality improvement mechanism for integrated medical and elderly care. Its standardized assessment framework, dynamic management system and emphasis on scaling up successful local models provide a replicable approach for translating national ageing policies into effective local practice.
The Strategy establishes a dedicated policy pillar, "Decent Labor and Honoured Old Age," aimed at ensuring older citizens a state-guaranteed retirement income of at least half the average wage through insurance and savings mechanisms, with an opportunity to use their capacity as long as possible through a system of adaptation. This is paired with a pension system overhaul focused on financial sustainability, reducing budget burden, and modernizing the insurance component to reflect the needs of different age groups of pensioners while stimulating later retirement. Complementing this, the Strategy mandates decentralized social-service delivery, including day care centers for older persons, persons with disabilities including children with disabilities, rolled out across residential areas and regions, alongside protection against violence against older persons and persons with disabilities.
The direct beneficiaries of the strategy are all Government officials. Citizens of Kyrgyzstan of all ages are expected end-beneficiaries of the strategy itself.
The measures focused on older persons are embedded within a national reform effort steered by the Government of Kyrgyzstan, with pension reform slated for design and rollout by 2023. Implementation channels include delegating the provision of day care centers for children and persons with disabilities, senior citizens, and social assistance for disadvantaged children and families to local self-government bodies in every municipality, using state and municipal contracting mechanisms for social services. The pension system also links to mandatory medical and social insurance for pensioners.
The approach is innovative in tying pension reform directly to demographic realities, explicitly citing population aging trends as a driver of reform rather than treating old-age support as a static budget line. It is replicable because it uses a standardized, decentralized delivery model (day care centers delegated to local governments) applied uniformly across every region of the country, allowing other municipalities to adopt the same template.
National Development Strategy 2018-2024, English
Национальная стратегия устойчивого развития - Статистика Кыргызстана
A nationwide research project to establish evidence for elder abuse (which was previously unmeasured). The Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale was used to conduct a longitudinal study of ageing New Zealanders living alone. Abuse was categorized into 4 themes: vulnerability, coercion, dependence, dejection. Questions were embedded into a existing study, allowing researchers insight into real feelings of the elderly, as shame plays a large role in getting accurate data on elderly abuse.
Older persons surviving abuse, as the study had made abuse visible.
Analysis of abuse of older persons was made available with a separate analysis of Maori older persons.
Since primary data on abuse of older persons had not been available, the center decided to develop a tool to screen abuse of older persons and to conduct a survey to collect data. The Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale tool was chosen as it asks questions about elderly abuse without addressing it obviously, and therefore people were more likely to give a genuine answer. Longitudinal study allows data to be linked with health and economic records. It was executed as a nation-wide survey via post.
Before this study, elderly abuse was a hidden issue, and now it is a documented government priority. Disguising questions in order to get data where participants did not feel shame was an effective methodological choice.
China launched a nationwide programme to expand community-based meal assistance services for older persons. The programme supports the establishment of elderly canteens, meal service points, and home meal delivery services, particularly for older persons with disabilities, limited mobility, or living alone. It promotes a diversified service model involving government agencies, social organizations, communities, and private-sector providers to improve access to affordable and nutritious meals and support ageing in place.
Older persons, particularly those who are disabled, living alone, empty-nest, economically disadvantaged, or residing in rural communities.
The programme established a national framework for expanding community-based meal services and set phased targets to increase service coverage by 2025 and further strengthen the service network by 2026. It also promoted diversified service delivery through collaboration among government, communities, social organizations, and private-sector providers.
The programme was jointly developed by 11 government ministries in response to the growing demand for community-based care amid rapid population ageing.
The programme demonstrates a coordinated, multi-sectoral approach to strengthening community-based care through accessible meal services. Its flexible implementation model allows adaptation to different local contexts while promoting sustainable service delivery and supporting older persons to age in place.
The Grandparents’ Day Celebration brings together older persons, their families, and the wider community to celebrate and support the well-being of grandparents through information awareness sessions and a family evening.
Children, Young Adults and Elderly residing in Sh.Funadhoo
The initiative encouraged active participation of older persons, provided valuable information on pension schemes, and featured a family evening with interactive games promoting financial literacy, reinforcing the importance of intergenerational connections and the sharing of knowledge and resources across generations.
The event was developed in collaboration Ministry of Social and Family Development, Local Government Authority, Sh. Atoll Coundil and Sh. Funadhoo Island Council. It is being conducted in collaboration with the Ministry of Social and Family Development, Local Government Authority and the Sh Atoll Council including government organizations in the Sh.Atoll
This programme fosters intergenerational connection and community engagement while raising awareness. By combining educational sessions with family-oriented activities, it not only informs participants about issues affecting elderly but also encourages family support, social inclusion, and active participation of elderly in community life.
The objective of the NHMS survey was to provide health related community-based data and information to the Ministry of Health to review health priorities, program strategies and activities, and to plan for the allocation of resources for pre-elderly and elderly health care services.
Data users and policy makers
Amid the changing demographic landscape in Malaysia, with increasing modernisation and urbanisation, NHMS found more older persons living alone. Living with one or more morbidities may happen as one ages. The goal of healthy ageing is to promote happiness and well-being while ageing in place without the need for institutionalisation. Everybody can experience healthy ageing, as being free of disease is not a necessity for it. Many older persons have one or more health conditions that, when well controlled, have little influence on their well-being.
This survey was conducted as a nation-wide community-based survey targeting elderly aged 60 years or more and pre-elderly aged 50 to 59 years. Data was collected via face to-face interview at respondent’s homes using mobile devices with various assessments done based on topics. A total of 5,636 living quarters were approached with 7,117 respondents successfully interviewed. The survey was conducted by trained and experienced personnel, under the expert tutelage of the Institute for Public Health.
It is the first nationwide survey on elderly health conducted by the Ministry of Health, exploring both familiar scopes such as non-communicable diseases and newer scopes such as dementia and abuse.
The National Health Care Policy and Strategy for Older Persons, implemented by the Cambodian Government and Ministry of Health, aims to support health systems evolve towards systems with integrated primary, secondary and tertiary health care for older persons. The policy considers current socio-economic and demographic trends within the development of a health system, allowing it to respond effectively to the health needs of the ageing Cambodian population.
The primary beneficiaries are Cambodians aged 60 years and over, targeted to receive integrated, equitable access to essential health services including prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care.
While a formal action plan was still under preparation as of 2021, the policy framework envisioned that Cambodian older people would benefit from equitable access to a quality health care package aimed at achieving welfare, active, productive ageing with dignity. For instance, the Older People’s Association (OPA) community model in Cambodia has shown practical community‑level benefits: “OPAs addressed their members’ health concerns by providing health education sessions, home visits, transportation, health check‑ups, and referrals.” They also assisted members in obtaining ID Poor cards, although advocates called for more tailored Senior Citizen Equity cards.
The policy was developed by the Ministry of Health in 2016, built upon a holistic, multisectoral life‑course approach. It emphasizes advocacy, awareness‑raising, multi‑sector collaboration, and strengthening capacity at primary to tertiary health services to ensure equitable access for older people pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov+6extranet.who.int+6UNFPA Cambodia+6. Formal implementation has relied on creating integrated systems, but as of the latest data, detailed action plans are still being finalized.
This policy is a good practice because it adopts a holistic, life-course and multisectoral approach that explicitly addresses older people’s needs through integrated services and equitable access, setting the foundation for dignified, healthy ageing.
