Improving and Extending Quality of Life Among Older Americans (part 3)

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CDC

CDC’s Roles in Promoting Healthy Aging
CDC’s Healthy Aging Program conducts activities designed to provide a comprehensive approach to helping older adults live longer, high-quality, productive, and independent lives. The Healthy Aging Program collaborates with other CDC programs, such as those focused on injury prevention, disability prevention, and adult immunizations, as well as with key external groups.

Examples of these activities include the following:

•Enhance the ability of states and communities to identify and implement effective strategies, policies, and programs to promote and protect the health of older adults. CDC supports the Healthy Aging Research Network (HAN), a consortium of nine Prevention Research Centers at academic institutions around the country working to better understand the determinants of healthy aging, identify interventions that promote healthy aging, and assist in translating research into sustainable community-based programs.

In 2008, the Healthy Aging Program sponsored “Effective Programs to Treat Depression in Older Adults: Implementation Strategies for Community Agencies,” a symposium to assist community-based professionals in public health, aging services, and mental health networks in providing science-based depression screening and management for older adults.

In 2009, a second symposium, “Promoting Environmental and Policy Change to Support Healthy Aging,” will address the opportunities posed by environmental and policy strategies.

The Healthy Aging Program recently released Assuring Healthy Caregivers, A Public Health Approach to Translating Research into Practice: The RE-AIM Framework, to respond to challenges in translating science-based caregiver interventions into “real world” settings. This document helps practitioners and researchers plan, conduct, and evaluate intervention programs and policies that promote the health and well-being of caregivers. It also illustrates the benefits of applying the RE-AIM framework (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance) to caregiver intervention programs, using Alabama’s REACH (Resources for Enhancing Caregiver Health) II Caregiver Demonstration Project as an example.