Active Ageing: A Concept Analysis

Background: The World Health Organization active ageing framework was adopted to guide ageing intervention, by ensuring that people of the world engage in practices that help them maintain functional capacities as they grow older. Aim: This analysis was carried out to examine the perspectives of professional nurses regarding the World Health Organization’s Framework for Active Ageing. Method: Extended search spanning from 1997 to 2014 was done through Ebsco Discovery Service (EDS) with 950 articles. Data bases with their corresponding results accessed: Academic Search Complete (553), MEDLINE (165), CINAHL (90), Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (138) and Caribbean Search (4). Valid search was 531, and 169 was exact repetition. Refine search yielded 153 articles on human active ageing either in the title or in the abstract. Results: The WHO framework was found to be widely accepted. Five (3.3 %) of the 153 articles were either carried out, or led by the nurses. Three (3) of the studies led by nurses approached active ageing interventions in the home care facilities, while two (2) adopted community approach. However, studies in both settings showed that nurses predominantly carried out interventions among older people. Key Words: active ageing, nurses, life-course, community-based interventio