HelpAge Healthy Ageing Platform: A hub for collaboration and impact

The HelpAge Healthy Ageing Platform is a global initiative designed to expand, deepen and speed up efforts to improve healthy ageing across communities, regions, and countries. Supported by more than 150 organisations from 60 countries, the platform serves as a collaborative space where members of the HelpAge global network and other like-minded partners connect, share knowledge, build capacity, and drive collective action for the benefit of older people.

The platform provides opportunities for grassroots and national organisations to work together, access resources, and influence policy and practice related to healthy ageing. Its goal is to create stronger, healthier communities by embedding the concept of healthy ageing within public policies, health systems, and community initiatives worldwide.

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The HelpAge Healthy Ageing Platform is a global initiative designed to expand, deepen and speed up efforts to improve healthy ageing across communities, regions, and countries.

In this video, Titus Abworo, director of the Ageing Concern Foundation in Kenya discusses the platform’s impact on members.

A vision for global healthy ageing

At the core of the platform is a bold vision: to ensure that every older person, everywhere, can enjoy good health, dignity, and well-being. This holistic approach emphasises more than just access to health and care services — it focuses on creating environments that support older people to live fulfilling, independent lives.

Growing the movement

Since its launch in April 2024, the platform has expanded rapidly, bringing together organisations from diverse sectors and regions to create meaningful change. This collaborative approach helps drive forward collective initiatives to ensure that older people are recognised as valuable members of society and that their needs are prioritised in policy and practice.

Organisations interested in joining the platform to support healthy ageing are encouraged to get involved. For more information, please contact healthyageingplatform@helpage.org.

What the Healthy Ageing Platform offers

Members of the Healthy Ageing Platform gain opportunities to work together on local, national, and broader regional and global initiatives. Through the platform, they can:

Collaborate on co-creating, co-leading, and co-designing initiatives that promote healthy ageing and drive sustainable, long-term change.
Build strategic relationships with like-minded organisations to amplify both individual and collective impact.
Expand their expertise and leadership in developing and influencing healthy ageing policies and practices.
Learn together by sharing experiences and exchanging knowledge, while co-developing tools to enhance collective capacity and effectiveness.
Strengthen resource mobilisation efforts and secure sustainable funding to support and expand collective actions.

Strategic grants to drive local and global impact

Focused on driving a positive change in healthy ageing, members of the Healthy Ageing Platform are able to apply for strategic grants designed to support their work to improve health services for older people. These grants empower members to influence and shape healthy ageing policies, systems, services, and practices from the community level to the global stage.

The first round of grants began in early 2025, and you can learn more about their activities below.

Strategic grants

Ageing Nepal - Nepal

Through a community-based approach, this project is transforming the health and wellbeing of older people by advocating to embed healthy ageing into local and national policies.

Working in partnership with District Coordination Committees, Ageing Nepal are piloting innovative initiatives, empowering older people, stakeholders, and Female Community Health Volunteers to promote active ageing.

Confidence Aged Care Home (CACH elderly) - Nigeria

By improving access to health promotion, disease prevention, and management support, this project is transforming care for 500 older people in Jos, Plateau State. It is empowering 20 caregivers and healthcare workers with community-based care skills and creating support groups to foster social connection for 100 older people.

Saidia Wazee Kagera (SAWAKA) - Tanzania

Through a community-based model, this project is empowering sustainable, community-owned approaches to healthy ageing. By building capacity and leadership, it is creating vibrant, self-reliant communities where older people shape their own futures by leading initiatives to promote healthy ageing.

Tesfa Social and Development Association - Ethiopia

Driven by a community-approach, this project is shaping a locally–led future for healthy ageing. By partnering with grassroots organisations, older people and caregivers are being equipped with the tools to drive change and deliver improved health and care services, and to advocate for policies that put ageing on the agenda. TESFA is creating lasting impact and intending to ensure that in Ethiopia Universal Health Coverage meet the needs and upholds the rights of older people.

Help Age Advocacy Network Uganda (HANU)

By strengthening community-based health teams in Uganda to develop better programmes and policies for care interventions, this project aims to leave lasting solutions to improve the health and wellbeing of older people. Through HANU it is seeking to build a future where ageing populations not only receive the support they need but thrive in healthier, more inclusive communities.

Foundation for Ageing and Inclusive Development (FAID)

By integrating climate and inclusion into caregiver resources, FAID is strengthening home-based care for healthy ageing. Using innovative tools that address the challenges of climate change, they are empowering caregivers and communities to provide more resilient and effective support.

Red Colombiana & Fundacion Horizontes – Bolivia and Colombia

Red Colombiana and Fundación Horizontes are empowering urban communities in Colombia and Bolivia with self-care and caregiving knowledge, sparking a movement for healthy ageing. By using collective action, these communities are driving change and expanding this impactful model to cities across Colombia and Bolivia.

Surcos Prioridad - Argentina

Surcos Prioridad is identifying critical areas to improve care policies for ageing populations. They are gathering insights and systematising findings in order to advocate for the priorities identified to be included in the public agenda, sparking meaningful changes that will improve care for older people.

Age Nigeria, Fantsuam, UNISOLD - Nigeria and Togo

This initiative is driving advocacy that amplifies the voices of older people to advance healthy ageing in Nigeria and Togo. By promoting inclusive and gender-responsive Universal Health Coverage and engaging in ECOWAS regional healthy ageing discourses, the goal is clear: equitable, person-centred services that priories reaching those left furthest behind.

Regional Centre for Healthy Ageing & Ageing Concern Foundation - Kenya

In rural Nakuru and Kakamega counties, this project is transforming healthy ageing through community-driven approaches. Empowering older people and health promoters to advocate for better services, increase national health insurance enrolment, and hold stakeholders accountable, partners are strengthening Universal Health Coverage and improving overall well-being.