The fight against chronic respiratory diseases in the elderly: the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Aging and beyond

The International COPD Coalition (ICC) believes that COPD and other respiratory diseases that strike the elderly will become an increasing problem worldwide as the elderly become a higher proportion of the overall populations. Because the European Union has anticipated this problem and is taking many proactive steps to deal effectively with the health care needs of the elderly, we wanted to provide more detailed information about their efforts in this ICC Column in JTD.