The article discusses the World Health Organization's (WHO) approach to healthy ageing, emphasizing the importance of maintaining functional ability to enable well-being in older age. The WHO has defined healthy ageing as a process that involves meeting basic needs, learning, growing, making decisions, being mobile, building and maintaining relationships, and contributing to society. The organization has established key priorities, including supporting country planning and action, collecting better global data, promoting research, aligning health systems to meet the needs of older people, laying the foundations for long-term care systems, ensuring human resources, combating ageism, and enhancing the global network for age-friendly cities and communities. The article highlights the challenges and obstacles in implementing these strategies, particularly in developing countries, and calls for greater national capacities and closer monitoring of progress through age-disaggregated data. The WHO's Global Strategy and Action Plan for Ageing and Health (2016-2020) and the Decade of Healthy Ageing (2020-2030) aim to address these issues and promote healthy ageing worldwide.The article discusses the World Health Organization's (WHO) approach to healthy ageing, emphasizing the importance of maintaining functional ability to enable well-being in older age. The WHO has defined healthy ageing as a process that involves meeting basic needs, learning, growing, making decisions, being mobile, building and maintaining relationships, and contributing to society. The organization has established key priorities, including supporting country planning and action, collecting better global data, promoting research, aligning health systems to meet the needs of older people, laying the foundations for long-term care systems, ensuring human resources, combating ageism, and enhancing the global network for age-friendly cities and communities. The article highlights the challenges and obstacles in implementing these strategies, particularly in developing countries, and calls for greater national capacities and closer monitoring of progress through age-disaggregated data. The WHO's Global Strategy and Action Plan for Ageing and Health (2016-2020) and the Decade of Healthy Ageing (2020-2030) aim to address these issues and promote healthy ageing worldwide.