Health, Prevention, and Wellness Program
The AoA Health, Prevention, and Wellness Programs provide seniors with the tools to maintain their health, reduce their risk of developing chronic diseases, and manage their health to live as independently as possible. The centerpiece of these programs is the Evidence-Based Disease and Disability Prevention Program, which provides discretionary grants to states to support collaborations between aging and public health networks to implement evidence-based prevention programs. These programs help seniors to improve and/or maintain their physical and mental health, reduce their risk of falling, and better manage their chronic diseases. AoA also supports a Diabetes Self-Management Training Initiative, the Hispanic Elders Project, and leads the aging component of HHS’s Healthy People 2020.
AoA defines Evidence-Based Disease and Disability Prevention Programs as those that have been:
- tested through randomized controlled trials and proven effective at improving and/or maintaining the health status of older people;
- provided successfully by community-based human services organizations, using non-clinical workers and/or volunteers;
- published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal; and,
- translated into practice and ready for broad national distribution through community-based human services organizations.
AoA’s Diabetes Self Management Training Initiative’s goal is to increase the capacity of the Aging Services Network to supply diabetes self-management training programs for seniors with diabetes, including Medicare beneficiaries, to assist them in managing their diabetes.
This program is giving special emphasis to building program delivery capacity in communities with large ethnic minority elder populations.
The Hispanic Elders Project is a collaborative learning network of 8 community sites dedicated to developing multiple approaches which address health disparities. Central to each community’s approach is the adoption of a chronic disease self-management program that empowers Hispanic elders to take control of their health by engaging in self-management strategies that address behavior change.
Please select from the programs below to learn more:
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