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This page contains
Resources for Healthy Aging Professionals.
Older Arizonans please click:
Resources for Older Arizonans
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Physical Activity Resources
Falls Prevention Resources
Professional Resources
Reports
Chronic Disease Notes & Reports
The newsletter of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion's June issue
highlights a CDC priority: Improving the health of older Americans..
Priorities for America's
Health: Capitalizing on Life-saving, Cost-effective, Prevention Services:
A study and report by Partnership for Prevention which ranks the health-impact and cost-effectiveness of
25 preventive services. To see the ranking & additional information about
each service: Rankings
of Clinical Prevention Services.
ADHS Nutrition Standards for Older Adults
contains a modified food pyramid for older adults and guidelines for healthy eating for older Americans. An update to the Nutritional Standards for Older Adults is currently in progress and will available soon.
Could Baby Boomers Be
Approaching
Retirement in Worse Shape Than Their Predecessors?
This press release from the NIH from March 5th, 2007 contains the findings of a self-report health
survey on three groups of boomers.
Data
The American Heart Association has released the
Heart Disease & Stroke Statistics for 2008 as well as the popular
Heart Disease & Stroke Statistics -
At A Glance
The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention provides the Diabetes Indicators and Data Tool for surveillance,
epidemiology and program evaluation activity as well as other resources on their
Diabetes Data and Trends page.
Trends in Health
Status & Health Care Use Among Older Women is a data-rich report from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
National Center for Health Statistics.
CDC's National Center for Health Statistics Provides: Trends in Health & Aging and the American Society on Aging
provides a teaching module companion called Teaching/Training on Trends in Health & Aging.
Tools
With the number of adults in the United States age 65 years and older projected to double to over 70 million by 2030, a public health approach has become an increasingly important component of the effort to ensure good health and high quality of life for aging Americans. The National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD), in collaboration with the National Association of State Units on Aging (NASUA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Administration on Aging (AoA), is working to develop the tools and expertise required to effectively address healthy aging from within state and territorial health departments. http://www.chronicdisease.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3317
American Society on Aging and the Centers for Disease Control &
Prevention provide several educational modules designed to help those with
programs enhance their health promotion and disease prevention services:
Stanford University provides an evidence-based chronic disease management
program which helps older adults with chronic disease better manage their
conditions and improve their health. Visit their site for more information
about the
Stanford CDSMP. For additional information about the Arizona Living Well CDSMP program click here.
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