National Council on Aging Article: How to Help Build Age-Friendly Ecosystems
The National Council on Aging (NCOA) has published an article, "How to Help Build Age-Friendly Ecosystems."
The article discusses efforts to build age-friendly ecosystems that improve the quality of life for older adults. It describes what an age-friendly ecosystem is and talks about the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative and Age-Friendly Public Health Systems.
“We all benefit in an age-friendly society,” said Rani Snyder, MPA, Vice President of Programs at The John A. Hartford Foundation. But moving the needle on creating age-friendly systems in health, public health, and higher education is such a heavy lift because of ageism, she said. “Ageism magnifies a lifetime of inequities.”
The author details several ways to be involved in the age-friendly movement. “We are, all together, the ecosystem,” Snyder said. “We’ve got to do this together.”
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Learn more about the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative and Age-Friendly Public Health Systems.
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