Observed on 1 October, International Day of Older Persons 2025 highlights older adults as active drivers of local and global change. This year’s theme, “Older Persons Driving Local and Global Action: Our Aspirations, Our Well-Being and Our Rights,” challenges organisations to move beyond age-based assumptions and embed dignity, inclusion, and rights into everyday practice. For highly regulated sectors such as health and social care, education, and employment, respecting older persons is not only a moral responsibility—it is a compliance requirement shaped by equality, safeguarding, and human rights frameworks. In this blog, Anna Nova Galeon explores what the 2025 theme means in practice and how organisations can align governance, training, and culture to support healthy ageing, protect rights, and build trust through systems like ComplyPlus™.