title: A Knowledge Translation framework on ageing and health.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The world's population aged 60 and over will more than triple from 600 million to 2 billion between the years 2000 to 2050. This demographic change has significant impact on health, social, and economic sectors. The need to ensure that research into older peoples' health is effectively translated to policy is immediate.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this paper is to present a proposed framework to support evidence informed policymaking in ageing and health.
  
  
  METHODS
  We undertook a two stage process to develop the framework. We (a) conducted a review of the literature, and (b) convened an expert panel to provide feedback.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Numerous frameworks have been proposed yet the majority do not address all the barriers. The Lavis et al., framework addresses a majority of the obstacles associated with evidence-informed policymaking and this framework was modified to include sub-elements important to ageing and health and to reflect the order of importance of the elements. The main elements are: a climate and/or context for research use, linkage and exchange efforts, creation of new knowledge, push efforts, facilitating pull efforts, pull efforts, and evaluation. A four-step implementation process is proposed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This paper offers an approach to Knowledge Translation within the field of ageing and health. The framework and proposed implementation could be used to conceptualize and implement evidence-informed policymaking.
authors.affiliation: McMaster Health Forum, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. West, CRL 209, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada; Jerusalem College of Technology, Ha-Va'ad ha-Le'umi St. 21, Jerusalem 93721, Israel; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, 4th Floor, 155 College St., Toronto, ON M5T 3M6, Canada. Electronic address: Moriah.ellen@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Moriah E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Ellen
authors.affiliation: World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: upanisset@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Ulysses
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Panisset
authors.affiliation: World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: araujodecarvalho@who.int.
authors.forename: Islene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Araujo de Carvalho
authors.affiliation: Age UK, Tavis House 1-6 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9NA, United Kingdom. Electronic address: James.Goodwin@ageuk.org.uk.
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Goodwin
authors.affiliation: World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: beardj@who.int.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Beard
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D006291:Health Policy; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D011050:Policy Making; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical
keywords: Ageing; Evidence informed policymaking; Health policy; Knowledge Translation