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Partnering with the YMCA to Advance Age-Friendly Work

Explore the well-known and subtle ways YMCAs across the country support health aging.

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What's Public Health Got to do With... Caregiver Support?

Home health and personal care aids were the largest occupation in the United States in 2023, with about 3.7 million people working in a paid caregiving role. However, in addition to paid professionals, the caregiver workforce consists of 53 million unpaid caregivers who provide support to loved ones.

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Two Public Health Institutes Achieve Age-Friendly Public Health Systems Recognition

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.

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Aligning the 10 Essential Public Health Services & the AFPHs 6Cs

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.

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