Cross-posted from NextAvenue By: Richard Eisenberg, Next Avenue Money & Work Editor I recently participated in the Age Boom Academy program, Global Aging: Danger Ahead? run by Columbia University’s Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center. While there, I heard a lot...
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How Community-Based Organizations Can Support Value-Driven Health Care
Cross-posted from HealthAffairsBlog By Anand Parekh, MD, MPH, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Robert Schreiber, MD, Hebrew SeniorLife As our health care system transforms more quickly than ever from paying for volume to paying for value, providers...
50 Years In, the Older Americans Act is at a Turning Point
By MA Healthy Aging Collaborative Update: On July 16, 2015, the Senate passed the bill to reauthorize the Older Americans Act (OAA). This is an important milestone that will help ensure the continuation of vital programs and services for older Americans and their...
Assessing the Age-Friendliness of Your Community
By Angel Bourgoin, PhD, JSI | MA Healthy Aging Collaborative website A crucial step in improving the age-friendliness of your community is to identify its current strengths and areas for improvement. Conducting a community assessment can help you to engage community...
White House Conference on Aging Hosts Regional Forum in Boston
By MA Healthy Aging Collaborative On Thursday, May 28, the 2015 White House Conference on Aging hosted its fifth and final Regional Forum in Boston, MA. Older Americans, caregivers, advocates, national and community leaders, and experts convened to discuss the key...
Member Spotlight: Tamy-Feé Meneide
Tamy-Feé Meneide serves on the Executive Task Force of the Multicultural Coalition on Aging. She recently joined the Massachusetts Healthy Aging Collaborative Executive Committee to help promote greater diversity and inclusion within the Healthy Aging Collaborative....
Member Spotlight: Dr. Milagros Abreu
Milagros Abreu, MD, MPH is the founder and Executive Director of the Latino Health Insurance Program, Inc. (LHIP), and serves as a Chair on the committee for diversity of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the executive committee of the Healthy Aging Collaborative....
Three New Features in the 2015 Healthy Aging Data Report
By Beth Dugan, PhD, Associate Professor of Gerontology, McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston I was proud and excited to present the work that the research team at the Gerontology Institute of the University of...
Healthy eating across the lifespan: What the 2015 dietary guidelines may mean for older adults
By Elizabeth Costello, MPH, JSI | Project Manager, MA Healthy Aging Collaborative website Most of us know the healthy diet drill by now: Eat more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, and less sugar, sodium, and saturated fat. But if you have been avoiding eggs in...
Member Spotlight: Dr. Frank Caro
Dr. Frank Caro is co-founder of the Brookline Community Aging Network, a volunteer-driven organization with a mission to make Brookline a better place to grow old. What is the Brookline Community Aging Network? The Brookline Community Aging Network (BrooklineCAN) is a...