4183.0 Healthy Communities for Healthy Aging

Tuesday, October 30, 2012: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
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: models for healthy aging, motional disorders and support among elders in an African-American community, a formative assessment of healthy aging in the villages community, assessing organizational capacity building as a strategy to prepare senior-serving organizations for the Silver Tsunami, as well as community engAGEment for age-friendly environments.
Session Objectives: 1. Identify health related domains within The Villages community that promote healthy aging. 2. Explain the community attributes that influence rural people‘s experience of their local physical, social, and service environments as either supporting or hindering place-based aging. 3. Describe prevalence of emotional disorders among elders in an inner-city African-American community. 4. Formulate key strategies in creating an infrastructure that engages an older adult community and integrates academic partners. 5. Describe the Colorado Trust’s Health Aging Initiative focused on building organizational capacity in senior serving organizations 6. Describe a new technology for community engagement around issues of health and place.
Moderator:

12:30pm
Models for Healthy Aging: Becoming America's Healthiest Hometown
Carla L. VandeWeerd, PhD, Jaime Corvin, PhD, MSPH, Suzanna Sharkey, PhD, Maria Rodriguez, BA, Danielle Rosen, MA, Philip Mcnab, MA, MPH, Monica Solomon, BS, Ngozichukwuka Agu, MBBS, Natalie Rella, BA, Melissa Rose, BS and Donna Peterson, ScD, MHS
12:42pm
12:54pm
USF Health in the Villages: A Formative Assessment of Healthy Aging in the Villages Community
Carla L. VandeWeerd, PhD, Jaime Corvin, PhD, MSPH, F. Alejandro Montiel-Ishino, BS, Katherine M. Kwong, BA-Anthropology, Chad Radwan, MA Applied Anthropology, Kristy A. Siegel, MPH, CPH, Susan Tyler, BA, Sarah Fishleder, BA and Donna Petersen, ScD
1:18pm
Community engAGEment for age-friendly environments
Deborah H. John, PhD and Katherine Gunter, PhD

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Organized by: Aging & Public Health
Endorsed by: Chiropractic Health Care, Community Health Planning and Policy Development

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