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Document the rationale and global advocacy efforts that prompted the World Health Organization to retract 'old age' and 'pathological' ageing from ICD-11 diagnostic classifications.

June 2, 2022The Lancet Healthy LongevityOpen Access

How “old age” was withdrawn as a diagnosis from ICD-11

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Document the rationale and global advocacy efforts that prompted the World Health Organization to retract 'old age' and 'pathological' ageing from ICD-11 diagnostic classifications.
Mobilized an international coalition of professional organizations, non-governmental groups, and civil society advocates to challenge the ICD-11 code proposal.
Held formal consultative meetings and submitted evidence-based revision proposals to the World Health Organization ICD-11 committee in October 2021.
The World Health Organization retracted 'old age' under diagnostic category MG2A and replaced it with 'ageing associated decline in intrinsic capacity'.
The ICD-11 causality extension code XT9T was modified to replace the classification of ageing as 'pathological' with the descriptor 'biological'.

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Policy analysis reports the removal of old age as a diagnostic code for older populations, highlighting the need to distinguish normal biological ageing from disease.

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Rabheru et al. (2022) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a11f1cfa7aa194e0accc676 https://doi.org/10.1016/s2666-7568(22)00102-7

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Policy analysis reports the removal of old age as a diagnostic code for older populations, highlighting the need to distinguish normal biological ageing from disease.

How “old age” was withdrawn as a diagnosis from ICD-11

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