Health and wellbeing of older people in LMICs: a call for research-informed decision making

Dina Goodman-Palmer; Eduardo Ferriolli; Adam L. Gordon; Carolyn Greig; Lisa R. Hirschhorn; Adedoyin O. Ogunyemi; Bilal Ahmed Usmani; Tsion Yohannes; Justine Davies

doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(22)00546-0

Health and wellbeing of older people in LMICs: a call for research-informed decision making

Dina Goodman-Palmer, Eduardo Ferriolli, Adam L. Gordon, Carolyn Greig, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, Adedoyin O. Ogunyemi, Bilal Ahmed Usmani, Tsion Yohannes, Justine Davies

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	e191-e192
Journal	The Lancet Global Health
Volume	11
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(22)00546-0
Publication status	Published - Feb 2023

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In all settings, but especially those that are resource poor, changes to policy and practice must be evidence based to efficiently deliver the expanded health and social care services required. However, there is a mismatch between where knowledge is needed and allocation of funding for ageing research, which almost entirely goes to projects in high-income countries (HICs). For example, the US National Institute of Aging (NIA; part of the National Institutes of Health [NIH]) has only four actively funded projects in LMICs—0·9% of total NIH active projects in LMICs and equivalent to 0·01% of total NIA funding. In the UK, of the 30 projects funded in the most recent National Institute of Health and Care Research Global Health Research Groups funding call, none were about ageing per se, although a few were on diseases likely to be present in an ageing population. This underinvestment in ageing research in LMICs does not bode well for data-driven practice or policy making in lower-income settings.

We declare no competing interests. We would like to acknowledge the Institute for Global Innovation at the University of Birmingham and the Robert J Havey Institute of Global Health Ryan Family Center for Global Primary Care, Northwestern University for funding the workshop in Dubai.

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