TFAH Report: Aligning Public Health Interventions with Older Adult Housing Needs and Challenges
Trust for America's Health (TFAH) has published a new brief, "Aligning Public Health Interventions with Older Adult Housing Needs and Challenges."
The brief outlines current housing challenges faced by older adults and potential areas for public health intervention. It summarizes existing programs that offer housing support for older adults and offers recommendations in each of the five key roles for public health.
To explore potential public health roles in aging, TFAH convened stakeholders from public health, aging services, and healthcare and developed a framework that delineates the roles public health can play to promote older adult health and well-being. The framework articulates five key public health roles:
- Connecting and convening multiple sectors and professions that provide the supports, services, and infrastructure to promote healthy aging.
- Coordinating existing supports and services to avoid duplication of efforts, identify gaps, and increase access to services and supports.
- Collecting data to assess community health status (including inequities) and aging population needs to inform the development of interventions.
- Conducting, communicating, and disseminating research findings and best practices to support healthy aging.
- Complementing and supplementing existing supports and services, particularly in terms of integrating clinical and population health approaches.
To read the brief, click here.
To learn more, click here.
To learn more about Age-Friendly Public Health Systems (AFPHS), click here.
The John A. Hartford Foundation supports TFAH's AFPHS through this grant.
