National Healthy Aging Symposium
The 2024 National Healthy Aging Symposium, held September 26, 2024, explored successful innovations in support of older adult health and well-being.
Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) in partnership with the National Network of Public Health Institutes, is excited to share that two public health institutes – Kansas Health Institute and the Catherine Cutler Institute at the University of Southern Maine – have achieved recognition through TFAH’s Age-Friendly Public Health Systems Recognition Program.
A production of Trust for America’s Health’s (TFAH) Age-Friendly Public Health systems Initiative. Hosted by TFAH’s President and CEO Dr. J. Nadine Gracia, this episode features Bill Armbruster, a Senior Advisor at AARP.
The brief illustrates the alignment between Age-Friendly Public Health Systems’ 6Cs Framework for Supporting Healthy Aging and the 10 Essential Public Health Services. Taken together, both frameworks give public health practitioners tools to support healthy aging.
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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.