The United Nations General Assembly today declared 2021 2030 the Decade of Healthy Ageing The UN Resolution which follows recent endorsement of the Decade by the World Health Assembly expresses concern that despite the predictability of population ageing and its accelerating pace the world is not sufficiently prepared to respond to the rights and needs of older people It acknowledges that the ageing of the population impacts our health systems but also many other aspects of society including labour and financial markets and the demand for goods and services such as education housing long term care social protection and information It thus requires a whole of society approach