Public Health Roles in Preventing and Addressing Elder Mistreatment

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As with all the Age-Friendly Public Health Systems (AFPHS) work, Trust for America’s Health centers public health guidance around the AFPHS 6Cs Framework for Supporting Healthy Aging. The Framework’s tenets are flexible and meant to provide guidance for public health practitioners to integrate healthy aging goals and strategies into existing work, while also providing a pathway to adopt and implement new policies and programs that support older adult health and well-being.

The AFPHS 6Cs Framework aligns well with the 10 Essential Public Health Services (ESPH), which public health practitioners use to guide their basic responsibilities. The public health sector is well-positioned to contribute to elder mistreatment prevention because of the essential capacities for assessment, policy development, and assurance (the three core functions within which the 10 ESPH fit).

6Cs framework topics with corresponding essential public health services.

Public Health Strategies

  • C1: Creating and Leading Change
  • C2: Connecting and Convening Partners
  • C3: Coordinating Services
  • C4: Collecting Data
  • C5: Communicating Public Health Information
  • C6: Complementing Existing Programs

The AFPHS 6Cs Training and Implementation Guide was developed by Trust for America’s Health with funding from The John A. Hartford Foundation and in partnership with the Education Development Center and the National Alliance for Caregiving.