All Together Now: Integrating Health and Community Supports for Older Adults
Brief from American Institutes for Research’s Center on Aging. First in a two-part series about policies and programs that provide resources and services for aging in place shows current programs are vastly underfunded and fragmented, and how policy needs to evolve to meet the needs of the aging population.
Growing Expectations
April 2016 report on older adults and technology use shows greater tech awareness among adults 59 to 85; cautions tech companies to pay attention to service, support, design for this growing demographic
National Creative Aging Network
A directory of creative aging programs in America serving older people. It includes intergenerational activities in urban, suburban and rural communities in a variety of settings. The initiative is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, MetLife Foundation, and The Michelson Foundation.
Aging Initiative
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is developing a National Agenda for the Environment and the Aging aimed at protecting the health of older people. This site provides information on the initiative, as well as research on aging, smart-growth issues and environmental hazards.
Community Partnerships for Older Adults
This national program aims to help communities develop options that meet the needs of older adults.
Center for Healthy Aging
The National Council on Aging encourages the development and implementation of evidence-based programs that provide proven health benefits to seniors.
CR Society
A 5,000-member anti-aging group that advocates better health and longer life based on evolving knowledge garnered from continuing research in various branches of science.
Aging Well in Communities, Center for Civic Partnerships
This initiative helps communities plan for an aging population.
National Aging in Place Council
Aging in Place Initiative
NORCs: An Aging in Place Initiative
Center for Technology and Aging
Center for Aging Services Technology
National Association of Area Agencies on Aging
American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists
The FDA on anti-aging supplements
National Research Center for Women and Families
The Mayo Clinic on Healthy Aging
MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging Society
“Aging in Place: A State Survey of Liveability Policies and Practices,” December 2011, by AARP.
“The Maturing of America: Getting Communities on Track for an Aging Population,” published by the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging and several other partners in June 2011.
The National Academy for State Health Policy reviewed new state options for funding home and community based services under health reform in this report. Families USA summarized these provisions in a fact sheet. And Health Affairs examined at the issue in a March 2011 article
Here is a list of local and state agencies on aging.
There are several new, emerging models of aging across the country.
So-called “villages” – seniors in a community who join together, purchase some services cooperatively, and agree on self-help – are a relatively recent example. This village movement began in Boston with Beacon Hill Village, founded in 2001. Check the Village to Village network for more examples.
Another example are “naturally occurring retirement communities.” For more information about this model, which originated in New York City, see the NORC website.
A Platform for Aging in Place: The Increasing Potential of High-speed Internet Connectivity: Information and communication services, delivered over a high-speed Internet connection, increase the potential for older adults to live independently, safely, and comfortably in their own homes. And yet, few older adults have a fast Internet connection at home. Some of the most promising Internet-based services and applications involve virtual visits with clinicians and family caregivers, automation of routine home activities, and in-home monitoring for older adults with limitations in activities of daily living. This July 2013 report, from AARP’s Public Policy Institute, presents an overview of these services. It also offers recommendations urging policymakers to ensure that affordable high-speed connectivity is available to all citizens and promoted as an aging-in-place solution.