The Regional Office is currently developing a regional comprehensive survey on ageing and health in Member States to collect a range of data on older persons. Data will be collected on demographic, socioeconomic, health, age-friendly health services and relevant legislation indicators in order to create an up-to-date database to inform evidence-based decision-making regarding comprehensive care for the elderly at country and regional level.

This survey will seek to include data on monitoring and evaluation of national capacities, numbers of primary health care centres which meet the criteria of age-friendly primary health care and changes in the environment which promote the development of age-friendly cities, and in turn, age-friendly countries.