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Enhancing Elderly Health Services in Africa for Non-Communicable Diseases

Join the discussion on adapting African health systems to address non-communicable diseases in older individuals. Experts explore training health workers, changing attitudes, medical products, and more.

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Enhancing Elderly Health Services in Africa for Non-Communicable Diseases

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  1. Adapting Africa’s Health Systems to Manage Non-Communicable Diseases in Older Persons

  2. Convenor Robert Cumming, University of Sydney, Australia Discussant John Beard, WHO Geneva Presenters Thomas Clausen, University of Oslo, Norway Melvyn Freeman, Department of Health, South Africa Joseph Mugisha, MRC Entebbe, Uganda Ousmane Faye, University CA Diop Dakar, Senegal

  3. Adapt health service delivery • Train health workers • Knowledge and skills • Change attitudes (“ageism”) • Health information systems • Medical products • Medications and appliances • Financing • Social pensions • Free health care • Leadership

  4. Attitudes of Health Workers “Why are you wasting your grandchildren’s drugs? Better I give you paracetum and let you go back home.” (Reported to have been said to an older person by a nursing assistant at a health centre in Uganda.)

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