RESOURCES
Use this Resource Library to find healthy aging resources. Here are a few tips for searching the library:
- Recently added resources appear first.
- To view a resource, click its title.
- In the column to the right, you can filter by format, audiences, tags, or categories.
Dementia Friendly Massachusetts Initiative
The Dementia Friendly Massachusetts Initiative (DMFI) is a whole-community response to creating dementia friendly communities. Dementia friendly communities are safe, informed, and respectful and engage all members of the community to meet the needs of the growing number of people living with dementia to remain part of the fabric of our vibrant community life. The DMFI […]
Legal Planning for Alzheimer’s and Dementia
This resource is a comprehensive guide to legal planning for dementia and alzheimer’s patients and their families
Making the Move to Assisted Living
This resource provides tips for choosing an assisted living facility and making the transition.
AARP Walk Audit Tool Kit (and Leader Guide)
The AARP walk audit provides step-by-step instructions and checklists for examining intersections, sidewalks, driver behavior, public safety and more.
Berkshire County Residential Aging in Place Workbook
This workbook is intended as a tool and resource to empower homeowners to identify, plan, and implement home renovations to allow them to age safely, independently, and comfortably in their own homes for as long as they wish. Source: www.berkshireplanning.org
Health Benefits of Swimming for All
This resource provides information on the health benefits of swimming for people of all ages. It also shares the benefits of swimming for those with arthritis, chronic pain, Alzheimer’s disease, and more.
Age-Friendly Boston: Assessing need and charting a course of action
The Age-Friendly Boston iinitiative challenges the city’s public agencies, community groups, businesses, cultural, educational and religious institutions to consider how changes to policy and practice can enhance the quality of life for Boston’s aging residents. This report focuses on Boston residents’ feedback on growing older in Boston and shares the results of a 12 month […]
Brookline Age-Friendly City Program Biannual Report: 2014-2015
This document provides an update on the second and third years of the Brookline (MA) Age-Friendly City initiative.
Celebrate the Voices video
This video from the Boston Society of Architects (BSA) Design for Aging Committee and Age-Friendly Boston gives older adults a voice by highlighting several older adults from different walks of life sharing their own stories of life in Boston.
Age-Friendly Communities Evaluation Guide: Using Indicators to Measure Progress
The Public Health Agency of Canada has developed an Age-Friendly Communities Evaluation Guide as part of its commitment to promote the Age-Friendly Community model throughout Canada. The guide provides information and tools to measure indicators of age-friendliness. 43 outcome indicators that are based on the eight domains of AFC are identified in the guide to […]