WHO promotes healthy ageing in Bahrain

Manama, 14 September 2025 

The WHO Country Office in Bahrain held an interactive session on healthy ageing at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland – Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain). 

The workshop equipped 126 medical students with a deeper understanding of healthy ageing and its growing importance for health systems. Through interactive discussions, students learned about WHO’s definition of healthy ageing and the vision of the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021–2030), discovering practical ways to create age-friendly environments, challenge ageism, and deliver integrated, person-centred and long-term care that preserves dignity and improves quality of life for older people. 

This practical training complements broader policy efforts by the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) in Bahrain, where in 2023, WHO, together with UNFPA, UNICEF, and UNDP, supported the Ministry of Social Development in reviewing the national strategy for the elderly to inform its update in line with the Government Plan (2023–2026) and Economic Vision 2030. 

WHO Bahrain remains committed to promoting healthy ageing as a national priority, offering technical expertise, data-driven insights, and policy guidance to support the Kingdom of Bahrain in building a health system that enables older people to live longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives.