Toward inclusive healthy ageing: a systematic review of equity in healthy ageing interventions
Chava Kurtz, Odelia Ben Harush, Anna Zisberg, Paola Buedo, Stuart McLennan, Efrat Shadmi · 2026
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Description
Kurtz and co-authors reviewed healthy ageing programs in 2026 to see whether studies check who benefits and who gets left behind. They used the PROGRESS framework, which lists eight equity factors from place of residence and race to education and social capital. The team searched three databases for measured evaluations of programs meant to help people age well.
Of 5,892 studies screened, 66 qualified, most published after 2018 with participants averaging 71.4 years of age across the included trials. Every study reported gender, 74 percent reported education, and 58 percent reported race or ethnicity, yet 38 percent never analyzed outcomes by any equity factor. Among 254 outcome results pulled from the studies, about 39 percent suggested shrinking inequity, while about 4 percent suggested programs actually widened gaps between groups.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Chava Kurtz, Odelia Ben Harush, Anna Zisberg, Paola Buedo, Stuart McLennan, Efrat Shadmi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 56 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |