Implementation of Elderly Healthcare Services in SEARO (Regional Office for South-East Asia): A Systematic Review
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The Yogyakarta Declaration on Ageing and Health in 2012, which brought together health ministers in the Southeast Asian Regional States (SEARO), resulted in an agreement to address ageing as a priority health issue. The outcome of the meeting was a commitment to make elderly health care become a national priority for SEARO countries. However, policies and programs on elderly care as well as the implementation and effectiveness of the programs seem to vary widely between countries. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of how the implementation of elderly health services is running in SEARO Regional Countries. The study approach is a literature study. Where using population, intervention, comparison, outcomes & study (PICOS) approach as a search strategy, and continued with the method of searching literature sources online using databases such as Scopus, Science Direct, Sage Journal. The keywords used were "implementation"; "health care", "elderly", "geriatric"; with the selection of articles in specific searo countries. The literature search was limited to the years 2014 to 2024 and it is in English. The results obtained were 12 research articles analyzed. Four aspects were highlighted in the literature review. Namely adequate resources for the implementation of elderly health services, health social security for the elderly, ease of access to health services, environmental and family support in elderly health. Further research is expected to identify more in-depth about elderly health services both in primary health facilities and secondary health facilities run in various countries.
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