It is critical to include people with disabilities as stakeholders in any collaborations in AFEs.
Leveraging Disability Partnerships and Policies to Advance Age-friendly Ecosystems
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State Multisector Plans for Aging Can Promote a More Coordinated “Ecosystem” for Older Adults
States can use MPAs to coordinate aging and disability services and supports across sectors to achieve age-friendly ecosystems.
Creating a Harmonious Age-Friendly Ecosystem that Delivers
Where do we go from here?
Principles and Approaches for Unifying an Age-Friendly Movement
Age-friendly work across sectors can coalesce into a social movement through shared principles and approaches to improve society.
Co-creating Age-Friendly Futures
Collaboration, leadership and co-production in action.
Advancing an Age-Friendly Ecosystem in Mississippi
Lessons learned on the road to a Multisector Plan for Aging.
Understanding and Addressing the Needs of Tribal Elders in Washington State
The expansion opportunity could elevate healthy aging as a core public health function, while focusing on equity.
The Promise of Age-Friendly Workplaces
Their evolution, benefits, challenges, and future directions.
Preparing for the Future: Using Data to Support Aging in America
The National Aging Readiness dashboard ensures those working with elders have the data needed to prepare for and support them.
Era of Empow(h)erment
The ASA RISE Allyship Project
From Classroom to Cybercrime Fighter
A student’s quest to protect older adults from online scams.
New Age-Friendly Hospital Measure Focuses on What Matters Most to Older Patients
Healthcare goals, medication management, frailty, social vulnerability, and age-friendly leadership must all be tracked.
Black Women’s Legacy of Care Is a Model for Aging Well
Rethinking aging—from isolation to connection.
A Path Toward Universal Social Prescribing in the United States
How does social prescribing work ideally, and how might it work more broadly in the U.S.?
Community Perspectives on Social Connection Programs
Interviews reveal what might and might not work to foster social prescribing in the community.
Connecting Generations, Empowering Lives: A Vision for Social Prescribing
An eyes-wide-open account of how social prescribing should work, equitably.
Social Prescribing: A Geriatrician’s Perspective
How might solving for social isolation and loneliness improve physical health?
How Social Prescriptions Help Patients—and Physicians
Where and how the practice got off the ground in a real way.
Social Prescribing Can Optimize Quality of Life and Age-Friendly Care
‘Often, the most important issues with older adults are not purely medical.’
How Social Prescribing Is Reconnecting Older Adults
Art Pharmacy demonstrates that “prescribing” the arts in community reliably improves older adult well-being.