The Massachusetts Healthy Aging Collaborative is pleased to promote the following events and learning opportunities that help promote inclusive age- and dementia friendly communities:
- Massachusetts Strategic Highway Safety Plan – Online Listening Session, June 18th from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm.
A Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) identifies key safety needs and helps direct funding to improvements that reduce highway fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads. Register here for upcoming online listening session to learn about and inform the 2027 plan.
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Federal Fair Housing Basics, Hosted by Justice in Aging, June 24th at 11:00 am (virtual)
The federal Fair Housing Act (FHA) prohibits discrimination against protected classes, such as people with disabilities. For older adults protected under the FHA, the FHA is critical for ensuring equal access to housing and defending against evictions. In addition, unlike some other civil rights laws, the FHA includes relatively strong enforcement mechanisms.
In this webinar, presenters will provide a broad overview of the FHA and why it is crucial for older adult renters in particular. Presenters will discuss how the FHA can be used to promote housing stability. The information in this webinar will be most helpful for aging, disability, and legal services advocates who work with older renters and want an introduction to the FHA.
More info and registration is available here.
- Community Health Equity Qualitative Projects Webinar: Combining Survey Data with Lived Experiences to Tell a Fuller Story – June 18th at 11:00 am
In 2023, Community Health Equity Initiative at Mass DPH (CHEI) and Tufts Interdisciplinary Evaluation Research (TIER) worked with six Community Evaluators to elevate how inequities that show up in CHEI survey data shape everyday experiences of Massachusetts residents.
The communities of focus for these projects were: adults over 65, immigrant parents and families, parents under 25 who have experienced housing instability, survivors of intimate partner violence, and young people aging out of the foster care system.
Join this webinar to learn about how Community Evaluators collected and analyzed this data and used it to inform action recommendations for DPH and partners across the state!
- 2026 Community Health Equity Qualitative Projects Webinar: Planning for Qualitative Data Collection and Action – June 24th at 2:00 pm
In 2026, Community Health Equity Initiative at Mass DPH (CHEI) and Tufts Interdisciplinary Evaluation Research (TIER) will continue to collaborate with Community Evaluators on qualitative data collection. Similar to 2023, this will include resident-led interviews and focus groups on topics that can be difficult to understand through surveys.
TIER is holding a virtual planning webinar for any community or state partner interested in informing CHEI’s qualitative data collection projects. This is an exciting opportunity to share your priorities and shape the focus of future data collection!
Join this webinar to share information on how you can see using qualitative data to inform your work and communities that would be important to engage through qualitative data collection.
- Best Practices for Digital Phenotyping Research in Aging Populations, Hosted by MassAITC (virtual) June 23rd at 4:00 pm
Digital phenotyping is transforming aging research by enabling high-frequency, real-world measurement of cognition, behavior, symptoms, and context through smartphones, wearables, and passive sensing technologies. This talk will review how digital health tools can complement traditional clinic-based assessments by capturing intraindividual variability, diurnal patterns, environmental influences, and subtle changes in cognitive and functional performance that may signal risk for neurodegenerative disease.