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What's Public Health got to do with... Promoting and Sustaining Equitable Healthy Aging
State and local health departments across the country are beginning to prioritize older adult health and well-being and are hungry for guidance, resources, and tools…
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Ensuring Age-Friendly Public Health in Rural Communities: Challenges, Opportunities, and Model Programs
This brief discusses the challenges facing older adults who wish in age in place in rural communities and the role that public health practitioners can…
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Partner Resources
Small-House Nursing Homes
prior to the COVID-19, families began exploring alternatives to nursing homes due to factors such as low staffing ratios and infection control violations. This AARP Public Policy Institute Report describes the Green House model, that is usually composed of a small cluster of homes that can be licensed as a nursing facility. Because they house a smaller number of residents, there is a greater focus on person-centered and higher quality of care.
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What's Public Health Got to Do With... Reframing Aging?
January 2022 by Patricia M. D’Antonio, BSPharm, MS, MBA, BCGPVice President, Policy and Professional AffairsThe Gerontological Society of America The Reframing Aging Initiative is generating…
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Aging Research
AP-NORC Poll: Government Should Help Americans Age at Home
A majority of Americans agree that government should help people fulfill a widely held aspiration to age in their own homes, not institutional settings, a new poll finds.
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Aging Research
Long-Term Care in America: Americans Want to Age at Home
The vast majority of Americans want to age at home and want government action to help them do so, according to a new study from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.