Celebrate Older Americans Month 2024
Every May, the Administration for Community Living (ACL) leads the nation’s observance of Older Americans Month (OAM). The 2024 theme is Powered by Connection, which recognizes the profound impact that meaningful relationships and social connections have on our health and well-being.
The Powered by Connection theme offers the opportunity to explore the vital role that connectedness plays in supporting independence and aging in place by combatting isolation, loneliness, and other issues. You can participate by:
- sharing facts about the mental, physical, and emotional health benefits of social connection and how it contributes to overall well-being,
- promoting resources and connecting older adults with local services, and
- challenging your professional and personal networks to prioritize meaningful social connections and share the benefits.
The 2024 logos and posters, social media graphics and activity ideas are available to help you celebrate OAM in your community, in addition to sample articles and proclamations. Don't forget to share your #OlderAmericansMonth plans, stories, & events on social media and inspire older adults to share what connection means to them on social media using the hashtag #PoweredByConnection.
JAHF and its grantees are changing the conversation about aging by promoting age-friendly care. Here are resources from just a few initiatives that represent the vision of Powered by Connection:
- Shaping a Social Isolation Strategy for Older Adults: Key Takeaways From a Multidisciplinary Convening report - from The New York Academy of Medicine
- Reframing Aging resources - from The National Center to Reframe Aging
- Aging and Disability Business Institute resources - from USAging
- Family Caregiving for Diverse Elders Resource Hub - from the Diverse Elders Coalition
- Age-Friendly Health Systems - an initiative of JAHF and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in partnership with the American Hospital Association and Catholic Health Association of the US
- Creating the Strategic Framework for a National Plan on Aging - on ASA Generations Now
- Multisector Plan for Aging (MPA) website
- Talking About It: Aging & Mental Health article series - from Next Avenue
- The John A. Hartford Foundation 2024 Business Innovation Award Nominations are Open - at USAging
Visit ACL's Older American Month website.