About these Tools

The tools below have been selectively chosen to be useful to those interested in healthy aging programs. If you are looking for tools related to a specific topic area of healthy aging, you will find most of these tools cross-listed in the Program Administration and Health Program Topics sections. Following the links below will bring you to a more detailed description of each resource and a link to the resource itself. Please contact us with comments or suggestions.

Checklists, Questionnaires and Tests

• A Test for Depression in Older People

• Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living for Older Adults

• Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment Tool

• Check for Safety: A Home Fall Prevention Checklist for Older Adults

• Determine Your Nutritional Health Checklist

• Evolution to Effective Prevention Diagnostic Scale

• Fall Prevention Checklist

• Health Promotion Skill Assessment Tool for Organisations

• Home Safety Checklists

• My Drug and Supplement Diary

• Promoting Health After Sifting the Evidence (PHASE)

• Self-Assessing Readiness for Implementing Evidence-based Health Promotion and Self-Management Programs

• The Partnerships Analysis Tool: For Partners in Health Promotion

Fact Sheets/Brochures

• Steps to Healthy Aging: Eating Better and Moving More

Learning Modules

• Evaluation for the Unevaluated: Program Evaluation 101

• Evaluation for the Unevaluated: Program Evaluation 102

• Lesson Plans: Medication Management

• Optimal Medication Use: Wise Choices for Healthy Aging

• Steps for Mental Wellness

• Strategies for Cognitive Vitality

• Wading Through the Data Swamp: Program Evaluation 201

Toolkits

• A Matter of Balance: Replication Report

• A Toolkit to Prevent Senior Falls

• Active Start: Replication Report

• Bone Health and Osteoporosis Outreach Toolkit

• Community Health Promotion Guide: Mobilizing Your Community to Promote Health

• Depression Management Toolkit

• Depression Toolkit

• EnhanceFitness: Replication Report

• Falls Toolkit

• Get Connected! Toolkit

• Harvest Health: Replication Report

• Healthy IDEAS: Replication Report

• Integrated Health Promotion Resource Kit

• MD Link: Partnering Physicians with Community Organizations

• Medication Management Improvement System: Replication Report

• Medication Matters: How You Can Help Seniors Use Medication Safely

• Medications Management Toolkit

• Mental Health Promotion Toolkit: A Practical Resource for Community Initiatives

• National Center for Patient Safety 2004 Falls Toolkit

• NCI-ACES: Replication Report

• NCOA Model Health Programs Toolkit: Healthy Changes

• NCOA Model Health Programs Toolkit: Healthy IDEAS for a Better Life

• NCOA Model Health Programs Toolkit: Healthy Moves for Aging Well

• NCOA Model Health Programs Toolkits: Background

• Older Americans Nutrition Program Toolkit

• Partners on the PATH: Replication Report

• PEARLS Implementation Toolkit

• Steps to Healthy Aging: Eating Better and Moving More: a Guidebook for Older Americans Act Nutrition Programs

• The Active Aging Toolkit: Promoting Physical Activity in Older Adults for Healthcare Providers

• The Chronic Care Model

• The Community Toolbox

• The Heart Truth Online Toolkit

• Your Game Plan for Preventing Type 2 Diabetes: Health Care Provider's Toolkit

Tools

• Evidence-Based Healthy Aging Programming: Tools and Checklists