We need public health systems that work for everyone.
TFAH is prioritizing healthy aging and is working to encourage and incentivize state and local health departments to embrace older adult health as a core function. Partnering with state and local health departments and national stakeholders, TFAH is working to implement a public health framework as part of the Age-Friendly Ecosystem that is essential to improve the health and well-being of older adults.
The Age-Friendly Public Health Systems monthly blog series, “What’s Public Health Got to Do With It?” This series is designed to stir up conversation, generate interest, and challenge healthy aging stakeholders to engage more deeply in age-friendly public health issues.
TFAH is working to better understand the challenges, explore potential solutions, and identify innovative vaccine distribution mechanisms for older adults and people with disabilities who are homebound.
Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) is pleased to announce that the New York State Department of Health is the first state health department to complete the ten action steps of TFAH’s Age-Friendly Public Health Systems (AFPHS) Recognition Program.
May 20, 2021 - 3:00pm ET
Ensuring access to the COVID-19 vaccine for those who are homebound remains challenging for most state and local…
July 15, 2021
Paid caregivers, family members, and other informal caregivers are the largest sources of support for older adults in…
Recognition Program
Age-Friendly Public Health Systems Recognition Program
TFAH is supporting state and local health departments as they work to adopt healthy aging as a core public health function through the AFPHS Recognition Program. This program provides states and local health departments with the opportunity to receive recognition for their work to support the health of older adults.