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Ageing is a normative process that reflects the bio-psycho-socio development trajectories all individuals experience as they age. Healthy ageing is specifically focused on those processes that allow adults to experience wellbeing as they age, particularly into later life. These processes include maintaining a degree of physical and mental functional capacity despite age-normative declines associated with increased age. Currently, the number of older adults isincreasing and its burden on medical expenditure, budget, and needs of quality health care services are increasing and becoming the issues of ageing populations.Although Africa is experiencing population ageing, the magnitude, predictors of healthy ageing, and barriers of healthcare-seeking behavior among older adults in Africa, particularly, in Ethiopia is not well investigated. So, identifying the predictors and barriers to healthy ageing will help in behavioral adjustment, identifying action steps that help to maintain health and function as people age, and guiding and assisting policy planners and policymakers in the establishment of policies and guidelines to promote the health of older people in the study area.

Bio

Amare Belachew Dagnewisa PHD candidate NCEPH. Amare studied his BSc degree from Jimma University and MSc degree from Addis Abeba University, Ethiopia. Amare has worked at Bahir Dar University as an academic staff for the last six years. Amare’s PHD is focused on healthy ageing and healthcare seeking behavior of older adults in Ethiopia.