Identifying Priorities for Aging Policies in Two Portuguese Communities

The aging population has an impact on health, social, and economic issues in regard to individuals, communities, and organizations. The challenge for local policies in response to aging is to create sufficient resources to meet the population's needs, wishes, and rights as people age. Active ag...

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Published in:Journal of aging & social policy 2018-10, Vol.30 (5), p.458-477
Main Authors: Bárrios, Maria João, Fernandes, Ana Alexandre, Fonseca, António Manuel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Active aging
Aged
Aging
Aging programs
Employment policies
Governance
Health care policy
Health technology assessment
Humans
Intervention
Local aging policies
Local governance
Networks
Older people
Policy analysis
Policy Making
Population aging
Population policy
Portugal
Public Policy
Rights
Safety
Vulnerability
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Summary:The aging population has an impact on health, social, and economic issues in regard to individuals, communities, and organizations. The challenge for local policies in response to aging is to create sufficient resources to meet the population's needs, wishes, and rights as people age. Active aging constitutes one of the guiding perspectives on policies. Taking into account the local governance perspective, the Model for Aging Local Policies Analysis (MALPA) was created in order to convert the active aging paradigm into a practical approach, as a technique to evaluate and analyze local aging policies. In this research, the MALPA instrument was applied in two Portuguese communities (Coruche and Oeiras). The objective was to identify the intervention priorities of aging policies in both communities, determining whether the instrument can facilitate the development of proposals for the improvement of local aging policies. It was possible to evaluate the communities and programs, identifying the least appropriate policy actions regarding the intervention priorities. The results allowed us to identify 10 priorities about collaborative governance, involvement of the elderly in the policy-making process, lifelong learning, economic hardship, policies for all ages, isolated vulnerable and fragile groups, intergenerational contacts, safety in all policies, labor opportunities, and conditions and transport network improvement.
ISSN:0895-9420
1545-0821
DOI:10.1080/08959420.2018.1442112