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Celebrate Senior Center Month This September
Celebrated every year in September, Senior Center Month is a time to shine a light on senior centers, showing the entire nation how vital they are to the health and well-being of a community. Senior centers provide countless hours of support and encouragement to older adults, and have become integral to health care delivery in…
Read MoreA new report by The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies Sheds Light on housing cost burdens and challenges
A new report by The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies finds that the share of households reporting difficulties using or navigating their home jumps from 8 percent of those aged 65–79 to 18 percent of those age 80 and older. Strengthening the connections between housing and services is needed to support the health and…
Read MoreOlder Americans Month (OAM) 2022
Every May, the Administration for Community Living (ACL) leads the nation’s observance of Older Americans Month (OAM). In 2022, ACL will be focusing on aging in place – how older adults can plan to stay in their homes and live independently in their communities for as long as possible. The 2022 theme is Age My…
Read MoreTransportation Planning Grants Will Address Transportation Inequities in Nine Communities Across the Country
The National Aging and Disability Transportation Center (NADTC) has announced a new round of funding to support the development of program innovations and new models for equitable and accessible transportation to meet the needs of vulnerable and underserved populations, especially older adults and people with disabilities from diverse communities. NADTC has awarded $173,495 in competitive…
Read MoreIs Your Hospital Age-Friendly? Non-profit Launches Hospital Ratings & Reviews Engine for Older Adults and Family Caregivers
The Age-Friendly Institute today announced the launch of a hospital ratings and reviews engine on its website. Features include a listing for each of the country’s 6,000 hospitals with Medicare five-star quality ratings and crowd-sourced reviews from a fast-growing community of older adults and family caregivers. Consumers are familiar with reviewing products and services before…
Read MoreRegister for a community listening session
Solutions to community challenges mostly come from those closest to the issue. That is why your perspectives and input are so important. Point32Health Foundation is working with Health Resources in Action (HRiA) to facilitate six community listening sessions throughout New England in February. The goal for these virtual sessions is to listen to and…
Read More50 community organizations receive THPF Momentum Fund grants
Tufts Health Plan Foundation has announced grants amounting to $500,000 for community organizations working to advance health equity and support community resilience. Fifty organizations, ten each in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, will each receive a $10,000 Momentum Fund grant. The grants were informed by more than 100 conversations with community members…
Read MoreNew International Survey: Older Americans Face More Economic Hardship During COVID-19
Nearly one in five older Americans say they used up their savings or lost their main source of income because of the COVID-19 pandemic — a rate several times higher than in other high-income countries, a new Commonwealth Fund study finds. Drawing from a survey of more than 18,000 adults age 65 and…
Read MoreVirtual Caregiver Support Groups Offered by the Village Common
Are you a “caregiver”? Many people are, but don’t realize it. Do you provide help to a family member, a loved one or a friend? To someone who is older, younger, or disabled and who needs help with the usual activities of living safely? Caregiver Support groups can provide opportunities to share experiences with other…
Read MoreNational Poll on Healthy Aging Reveals Pandemic worsened many older adults’ mental health, but long-term resilience also seen
In January 2021, the University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging asked a national sample of U.S. adults age 50–80 about their mental health and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on their mental health symptoms. They found that almost one in five older adults currently experiences depression, anxiety, insomnia, substance use, or another…
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