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Past Training – February 2025 AFPHS Training
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…
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.
Partnering with the YMCA to Advance Age-Friendly Work
In this episode of Age-Friendly Public Health: The Podcast, host Dr. J Nadine Gracia, President and CEO of Trust for America’s Health is joined by Katie Adamson, Vice President for Health Partnerships and Policy at YMCA of the USA. They discuss the well-known and subtle ways YMCAs across the country support healthy aging.
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.
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.
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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March 2025 AFPHS Training
March 20, 2025 @ 3:00 pm ET
Trust is central to establishing partnerships to advance healthy aging. Building trust requires thoughtful engagement and a commitment…
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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.