Challenges of Health and Ageing in Portugal's Population

Promote dignity and non-discrimination

Bibliographic Data

ID21982167
AuthorsMónica Martinez De Campos (0000-0001-6437-8799, Universidade Portucalense, corresponding author)
Year2025
Publication date2025-06-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOñati Socio-legal Series (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2079-5971 • E-ISSN: 2079-5971
PublisherOnati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (PUBLISHER • ES)
DOI10.35295/osls.iisl.2338
OpenAlexW4411378979
LanguageEN
References cited57

The article discusses the challenges that arise from the population's increasing longevity and the need to address complex physical and mental health issues to ensure high-quality health services for older people. It emphasises the importance of reflecting on and addressing these challenges to ensure there are more means and policies in the future. Based on a qualitative methodology, the analysis draws on international legal instruments, public health policy frameworks, and scientific literature concerning ageing, health systems, and the legal implications of age-based discrimination. The WHO's Decade of Healthy Ageing 2020–2030 plan highlights the need for changes to promote healthy ageing. To meet the needs of older people, integrated care, long-term care, and primary health care services centred on the elderly are necessary. Additionally, awareness-raising campaigns on ageism and the prevention of age discrimination are crucial. Discrimination can have a detrimental effect on the provision of healthcare and the health of older people. While establishing or re-establishing formal equality for older people is important, it is not sufficient to guarantee their dignity. It is crucial to ensure the dignity and non-discrimination of older people through positive measures

Ageing · Dignity · Environmental health · Political science · Population · Population ageing · Sociology · Global Health Care Issues · Health disparities and outcomes · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Retirement, Disability, and Employment · Gerontology