Ending age discrimination and stigma to promote healthy ageing in China

The Path to Healthy Ageing in China: A Peking University–Lancet Commission1 proposed healthy ageing as a crucial national initiative to address population ageing and enable the utilisation of the intellectual and vocational capacities of older people. Such an endeavour would better capture the social, economic, and health benefits of age (ie, longevity dividends) in China. The population older than 65 years in mainland China accounted for 25·6% of the entire global population in 2020,2 contributing to a series of challenges and concerns, such as labour shortages, welfare burden, and health-care costs.