165578 Community partnerships-lessons learned for promoting healthy aging

Tuesday, November 6, 2007: 3:30 PM

Elise J. Bolda, PhD , Community Partnerships for Older Adults, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME
        
Aging today is about more than medical care. Social factors are equally important, and improving health outcomes often means more than just access to services. Factors like housing, education, and income significantly affect health. Older adults who lack any of these are the most vulnerable.

As a society we are beginning to understand that traditional concepts of long term care and old age are outdated. Communities are recognizing that they are unprepared and there is a need for new thinking.

This presentation will share lessons learned from 16 communities nationwide that work with the Community Partnerships for Older Adults (CPFOA) program. CPFOA is a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that helps communities develop leadership, innovative solutions, and options to meet the needs of older adults over the long term.

Learning Objectives:
1. Identify the tools used (and their benefits) to expand local aging and public health partnerships to include older adults and other non-traditional partners as they build their community’s capacity. 2. Articulate successful strategies for shared leadership as communities develop new thinking and new approaches as they craft local solutions to the cross-section of older adult and community needs. 3. Locate resources and opportunities from other communities to learn about creating partnerships for collaborative problem solving and alignment of resources to meet the public health needs as communities prepare for a growing older population.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No
Any institutionally-contracted trials related to this submission?

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

See more of: Public Health and Aging: Promoting Healthy Communities for Healthy Aging
See more of: APHA-Task Force on Aging