by MA Healthy Aging Collaborative | Aug 24, 2015
This Grantmakers in Aging toolkit includes sample messages to help communities create more effective messages or talking points, shape brochures or other printed materials, and frame public communications campaigns.
by MA Healthy Aging Collaborative | Mar 11, 2015
This website provides information about GIA’s age-friendly initiative, including resources to help funders, nonprofits, governments, planners and citizens, as well info about the five communities that have received grants to accelerate their age-friendly...
by Elizabeth Costello | Mar 11, 2015
AGE-FRIENDLY COMMUNITIES IN MA Revised April 2018 A wave of communities across MA are actively pursuing or exploring an age-friendly designation through the WHO/AARP Network of Age-Friendly Communities. Some are implementing other age-friendly models. This interactive...
by MA Healthy Aging Collaborative | Jan 30, 2015 | Stories from the Field
By Malka Young, LICSW, Director of Community Impacts, JFS of Metrowest The last time I saw the doctor; I drove into Boston, went through a maze of dark parking levels, backed into a narrow parking space, and traversed long corridors. I rushed, only to fill out my...
by MA Healthy Aging Collaborative | Jan 23, 2015
By Jaime Corliss and Ben Wood, MDPH and Julie Kelly, Fall River Mass in Motion Public health people love to talk about Policy, Systems and Environmental change (PSE for short). You probably have an understanding of what this concept means (and you may be sick of...