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.
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.
Age-Friendly Public Health: The Podcast is 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 Jess Maurer.
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.
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.
January 20, 2022 3:00 pm ET
This training is the second installment of our training around ageism. The focus of this training was on…
February 20, 2025 @ 3:00 pm ET
Departments of health and public health organizations that have been able to imbed healthy aging as a core…
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.