3110.0 Healthy Communities for Healthy Aging

Monday, October 31, 2011: 10:30 AM
Oral
How and where we live, eat, work, play, and socialize profoundly influence our physical and mental health. This session will mainly cover the following important topics related to this issue: the use of health impact assessment to improve health and the built environment for older adults; building a healthy local food system to benefit every age; and environmental threats to healthy aging (a life span approach).
Session Objectives: 1. Demonstrate the use of health impact assessment to improve health and the built environment for older adults. 2. Show how to bring organizations and residents together to identify needs and establish goals in their community's food system.
Organizer:
Kathy Sykes, MA
Moderator:
Kathy Sykes, MA

10:30 AM
Smart Growth: What it's All About
Geoff Anderson, President and CEO
     
10:50 AM
Improving health and the built environment for older adults: Use of health impact assessment
Andrew Dannenberg, MD, MPH
     
11:10 AM
Environmental threats to healthy aging: A lifespan approach
Ted Schettler, MD, MPH
     
11:30 AM
Building a healthy local food system to benefit every age
Gordon Walker, CEO, Jefferson Area Board for Aging
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Aging & Public Health
Endorsed by: American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus, Community Health Planning and Policy Development, Disability

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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