About These Resources

The resources below have been selectively chosen to be useful to those interested in healthy aging programs that deal with general health promotion issues. 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.

Book

• Evidence-Based Interventions for Community Dwelling Older

Electronic Newsletters

• Electronic Newsletters Archive: Falls Free and News From the Center

Fact Sheets/Brochures

• The Pocket Guide to Staying Healthy at 50+

Issue Briefs

• Healthy Aging and States: Making Wellness the Rule, Not the Exception

Issue Briefs: "Using the Evidence Base" Series

• The Administration on Aging's Evidence-Based Prevention Programs for the Elderly Initiative

• The Model Programs Project

• Using the Evidence Base to Promote Healthy Aging

Manuals and Guides

• Partnering to Promote Healthy Aging: Creative Best Practice Community Partnerships

Presentation Slides

• Addressing the Chronic Care Challenge Through Collaborative Care

• Prevention: Why Is It a Priority and What Is Being Done? (NCOA)

• Symposium: What Elders Tell Us [About Injury Prevention/ Health Promotion Programs]

• Wellness Model for Senior Centers

Program Summary

• Evidence-Based Program Summary: EnhanceWellness

Reports

• A National Survey of Health and Supportive Services in the Aging Network

• A New Vision of Aging: Helping Older Adults Make Healthier Choices

• Collaborative Care for Aging Well

• Diffusion of Innovations

• From Research to Practice: NCOA Helps Promote Evidence-Based Prevention Programs

• Health Promotion Survey Report

• Nonvertebral Fracture Prevention, Determinants of Bone Strength & Importance of Calcium (3 articles)

• The Aging States Project: Promoting Opportunities for Collaboration Between the Public Health and Aging Services Networks

Toolkits

• Integrated Health Promotion Resource Kit

• MD Link: Partnering Physicians with Community Organizations

Tools

• Making Your Printed Health Materials Senior Friendly- Tip Sheet

Websites - Health Information

• AHRQ's Resources on Patient Safety

• Health Action Theater by Seniors (HATS)

• IDM Best Practices for Health Promotion, Public Health and Population Health

• infoaging.org: Healthy Aging Center

• Quick Guide to Health Literacy and Older Adults

Websites - Organizations

• Community Partnerships for Older Adults

• Healthy Aging: Preventing Disease and Improving Quality of Life Among Older Americans

• National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

• National Senior Games Association

• Steps to a Healthier U.S.