About the Authors

Jotheeswaran Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan

‡ AMT and IAC share the first authorship of this work. MP and JB share last authorship on this work.

Affiliation Department of Ageing and Life Course, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Islene Araujo de Carvalho

araujodecarvalho@who.int

‡ AMT and IAC share the first authorship of this work. MP and JB share last authorship on this work.

Affiliation Department of Ageing and Life Course, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas

Affiliation Department of Nutrition for Health and Development, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Shelly Chadha

Affiliation Department for Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Silvio Paolo Mariotti

Affiliation Department for Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Tarun Dua

Affiliation Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Emiliano Albanese

Affiliation World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Mental Health, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Olivier Bruyère

Affiliation World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Public Health Aspects of Musculoskeletal Health and Aging, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Matteo Cesari

Affiliation Geriatric Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda–Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy

Alan Dangour

Affiliation London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Amit Dias

Affiliation Goa Medical College, Goa, India

Mariella Guerra

Affiliation Institute of Memory, Depression and Related Disorders, Lima, Peru

Jill Keeffe

Affiliation World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Prevention of Blindness, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India

Ngaire Kerse

Affiliation University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Qurat ul Ain Khan

Affiliation Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

Chiung-ju Liu

Affiliation Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Gudlavalleti V. S. Murthy

Affiliations London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad, Madhapur, India

Serah Nyambura Ndegwa

Affiliation University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Jean-Yves Reginster

Affiliation World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Public Health Aspects of Musculoskeletal Health and Aging, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Luis Miguel F. Gutiérrez Robledo

Affiliation Institutos Nacionales de Salud de México, Mexico City, Mexico

Kelly Tremblay

Affiliation University of Washington, Seattle, United States of America

Jean Woo

Affiliation The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Martin Prince

‡ AMT and IAC share the first authorship of this work. MP and JB share last authorship on this work.

Affiliation Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

John R. Beard

‡ AMT and IAC share the first authorship of this work. MP and JB share last authorship on this work.

Affiliations Department of Ageing and Life Course, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, ARC Centre of Excellence on Population Ageing Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the below authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: AD received competitive research funding from the Food Standards Agency in the UK, Public Health England, and the Wellcome Trust to conduct research on nutrition in older people. MP declared that his institution (King's College London) undertook an Agreement for Performance of Work (APW) with the World Health Organization, which included a small amount of funding for the employment of a research worker to complete systematic reviews on interventions for subsyndromal depression, which informed the development of the ICOPE guidelines. He did not benefit personally. KT receives grant funding from the National Institutes of Health and also serves as a grant reviewer. She serves on the Boards of the American Auditory Society as well as the Hearing Loss Association of America. This person consults and conducts advocacy work as founder of Lend an Ear and previously served as the Chief Audiologist for Otogear, which provided hearing protection to the public.