Vision health for longer, healthier lives through prevention, access, and care.
The IFA drives vision and healthy ageing, ensuring ageing is recognized in vision health policy, investment, and services, while championing vision health across broader ageing, demographic, and intersecting agendas.
IFA promotes vision health as an integrated part of sensory and brain health across the life course, highlighting its links to broader ageing challenges, including noncommunicable diseases, workforce participation, economic productivity, social development, caregiver burden, long-term care, and issues affecting older women. Through partnerships with leading vision health organizations and cross-sector actors, IFA bridges vision health with healthy ageing and other intersecting agendas.
The Barometer Program aims to improve the vision health outcomes of adults with diabetes, and those with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD), through collaboration, evidence generation, knowledge exchange, and action. It is a multi-phase initiative established to develop robust evidence and provide meaningful recommendations on improving patient adherence and persistence with treatment in nAMD, diabetic retinopathy (DR) and diabetic macular edemna (DME).
As the Secretariat for the DR Barometer Program, the International Federation on Ageing (IFA) has supported the Program through targeted efforts that aim to advance policy and practice at a country level and globally to support patients with diabetes and nAMD in receiving vision-preserving care.
Emerging evidence shows hearing loss is a modifiable risk factor for dementia. This project explores links between hearing and dementia priorities across countries to support more integrated care approaches.
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