New York State Department of Health Achieves Age-Friendly Public Health Systems Recognition
Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) has announced that the New York State Department of Health is the first state health department to complete the ten action steps of TFAH’s Age-Friendly Public Health Systems (AFPHS) Recognition Program.
The AFPHS Recognition Program is designed to encourage and support state and local health departments to embrace their role in improving and supporting older adult health. Action steps include data collection, collaboration across sectors to improve older adult health and listening directly to older adults to learn what matters to them.
To achieve AFPHS Recognition, the New York State Department of Health: enhanced their age-friendly dashboard to include more detailed data profiles about older adults in the state; developed a Long-Term Care Planning Project that engaged the opinions of older adults to improve aging and long-term care in New York; and enacted the Age-Friendly Planning Grant to provide training and technical assistance for countries to become certified age-friendly communities through AARP.
To learn more about New York State achieving Age-Friendly Public Health Systems recognition, click here.
To learn more about AFPHS, click here.
The John A. Hartford Foundation supports TFAH's AFPHS through this grant.