The World Health Organisation has declared 2021–2030 as the decade of healthy ageing, recognising the need to improve the lives of older adults and support all people to lead long, healthy lives. India has seen a rapid increase in the proportion of older adults and faces numerous challenges to healthy ageing including socio-economic, infrastructure, social and cultural factors. Through adopting systems thinking, we can consider the interactions between actors, communities and organisations that can facilitate healthy ageing. The aim of this project is to take a systems approach to healthy ageing in India, with the objective of supporting older people to be themselves and do what they value. Through this study, we will identify and develop inter-sectoral interventions, polices and changes to practice that promote healthy ageing in India. The project is guided by the 6SQuID intervention development framework, with coproduction and systems thinking embedded throughout. The proposed session will describe the overall design and the first data collection phase which included stories and participatory workshops, and aimed to explore the factors influencing healthy ageing, key actors involved, and outcomes. Participants included key stakeholders from diverse organisations and sectors (n=31), and older adults (n=39) from two sites (Bengaluru and Mysusru). The stories and workshop data were analysed thematically, and several inter-related factors influencing health ageing were identified. These included family dynamics and living arrangements, financial security, social participation, lifestyle, institutional support, and technological aspects. The findings lay the foundation for intervention development in the next phase of the project.

Authors:
Divya Sivaramakrishnan, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Lekha Subaiya, Institute for Social and Economic Change, India
Vani B.P., Institute for Social and Economic Change, India
Syamala T.S., Institute for Social and Economic Change, India
Jeremy Hilton, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Louise Baldwin, Health and Social Change, Australia

About the Presenter(s)
Dr Divya Sivaramakrishnan, Chancellor's Fellow with the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy, University of Edinburgh. Research interests: Intervention development/evaluation, public health, healthy ageing, sedentary behavior

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