Age-Friendly Public Health: The Podcast

Partnering with the YMCA to Advance Age-Friendly Work

April 2025

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. 

Season 2 Episode 1 Transcript

Listen to season one’s episodes:

• Ageism – Its Impact and How to Overcome It
• Building Strategic Partnerships to Create Age-Friendly Communities
• Building an Age-Friendly Ecosystem in Mississippi
• Where it all Began

You can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or anywhere you listed to your favorite podcasts.

Age-Friendly Public Health: The Podcast is a production of Trust for America’s Health’s (TFAH) Age-Friendly Public Health Systems Initiative. This quarterly podcast, hosted by TFAH’s President and CEO Dr. J. Nadine Gracia, will feature conversations with leaders in the age-friendly public health systems movement on challenges, opportunities, and model programs, with a focus on the role public health can play in helping older adults thrive.