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What a habits assessment is — and is not
Source date: 1 October 2025
World Health Organization · Ageing and health
A habits assessment organises what a person chooses to share about daily life: food, movement, rest and other routines. It provides an orienting view of a starting point. It is not a measure of biological age, a diagnosis or a prediction of disease.
The World Health Organization fact sheet «Ageing and health», dated 1 October 2025, describes a public-health framework. It states that maintaining healthy behaviours throughout life — particularly a balanced diet, regular physical activity and not using tobacco — contributes to reducing the risk of noncommunicable diseases, improving physical and mental capacity, and delaying care dependency. It also explains that the physical and social environment influences opportunities, choices and behaviour.
That fact sheet does not validate a questionnaire or turn an individual’s answers into a measurable effect. It does not specify which habit to change, by how much or under which plan. Differences between people do not fit into a score.
On this platform, the free assessment is limited to everyday habits and an orienting reading. People who answer decide afterwards whether to save what they shared. The free assessment is the public entry point for anyone who wants to organise that starting point.
Context
The source is an institutional public-health fact sheet, not a trial measuring the effect of this assessment. Statements about risk, capacity and dependency describe a WHO population framework. They do not support reading the questionnaire as evidence that an individual will reduce a risk, gain capacity or delay care dependency. It is also not a recommendation about diet, exercise, supplements or treatment. It does not calculate biological age.
Educational wellbeing content. It is not a diagnosis, treatment, personal instruction or a replacement for healthcare.
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