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# Health Promotion Strategies

Health promotion helps us spread vital information about how to take care of ourselves and stay healthy. Learn about health promotion and disease prevention programs that teach participants about a healthy diet, exercise, and other lifestyle changes. 

##  Guides

                    - How To Use Incentives: A Guide for ACL CDSME and Falls Prevention Grantees — NCOA overview of the most common types of incentives and how to use them effectively
                    - Guidelines for Delivering Telewellness Programs to Older Adults With Disabilities  — TechSAge guidelines  for designing wellness classes delivered via video conferencing for older adults with disabilities
                    - Dementia Training Resources for Professionals and Volunteers  — List of resources for professionals,  caregivers, and volunteers
                    - Health Promotion  — ACL information on evidence-based programs
                    - Title III-D FAQ  — ACL responses to questions about Title III-D programs during the pandemic
                    - High Obesity Program — CDC-funded program to increase access to healthier  foods and safe and accessible places for physical activity
                    - Navigating Older Americans Act Title III-D  — Best practices for selecting and  delivering evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention programs, with a focus on the delivery of programs in remote formats

## Fact Sheets

                    - Occupational Wellness Tip Sheet  — Tips to utilize your participants' skills to benefit your program and community
                    - Physical Wellness Tip Sheet  — Tip sheet to help incorporate more evidence-based physical activity programs into your senior nutrition program
                    - Nutrition Medicare Benefits  — Information on eight Medicare-covered preventive services
                    - Healthy Blood Pressure for Healthy Hearts — NIH tip sheet on taking control for your blood pressure
                    - Making the Move to DASH (Dietary Approaches To Stop Hypertension) — Tips from NIH to make DASH work for you

## Tools & Toolkits

                    - How To Recruit Older Adults for Chronic Disease Self-Management Education Programs on Social Media — NCOA toolkit to help your organization recruit more older adults to your evidence-based CDSME programs
                    - Sarcopenia Resources — Handouts from HHS Office of Women's Health to help clients prevent and treat age-related muscle loss
                    - Move Your Way — Campaign materials from Health.gov for promoting physical activity among older adults                       - How To Get Your Community Moving With Move Your Way (YouTube) 
                    - On the Move to Better Heart Health for African Americans — NIH toolkit explaining heart disease and its risk factors
                    - Partnering With Food Service To Reduce Sodium — Toolkit from NNPHI and HRiA
                    - Rural Community Health Toolkit — Information from RHIhub on developing a rural health program
                    - Rural Health Promotion and Disease Prevention — Toolkit from RHIhub for identifying and implementing a health promotion program
                    - Teaching Adults Technology — TeachSD toolkit for developing intergenerational technology programs
                    - Tools for Action — Resources for promoting public health priorities from Healthy People 2030

## Presentations

                    - The Confidence To Empower Older Adults (YouTube) — Network spotlight on providing nutrition education and evidence-based programming for older adults while also finding personal benefits within the work
                    - Older Adult Mental Health Awareness Day 2023 Symposium — Presentations from the 2023 symposium
                    - Dissemination and Implementation of Chronic Disease Self-Management Programs: Reach and Effectiveness — NCOA webinar that describes the implementation of chronic disease self-management programs by ACL grantees during 2014-2022 (free registration required to view the video)
                    - Healthy Aging Webinar With Tai Chi Demonstration (YouTube) — Short webinar highlighting resources for healthy aging, malnutrition, and falls prevention as well as a Tai Chi warm-up demonstration
                    - Improving the Health Span of Older Adults Through Nutrition (YouTube) — Tufts University webinar series                       - Biology of Aging
                      - Delaying Cognitive Decline
                      - Delaying Eye Disease
                      - Muscle and Bone Health 
                    - Health & Well-being Webinar (YouTube) — Webinar on the value of health and well-being programs and partnerships and how to reach older adults                       - Health & Well-Being Slides
                      - Health & Well-Being Tip Sheet
                      - Health & Well-Being Takeaways 

##  Reports

                    - Older Americans 2020: Key Indicators of Well-Being — Latest data from the Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics
                    - Physical Activity: Home-based Exercise Interventions for Adults Aged 65 years and Older — Summary of Community Preventive Services Task Force finding on benefits of home-based exercise interventions for older adults

##  Resources

                    - 4 Ways Falls Prevention and CDSME Grantees are Reaching Underserved Populations — NCOA article
                    - 4 Reasons to Partner With a Senior Center for Evidence-Based Programming and Beyond — NCOA article
                    - Collecting Participant and Partner Data for ACL Chronic Disease Self-Management and Falls Prevention Evidence-Based Programs — NCOA tip sheet
                    - Chronic Conditions and Fall Risk: Cross-Promoting Programs Across the Continuum of Care — NCOA article on how engaging participants and providers encourages community partnerships and collaboration
                    - How to Provide Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Evidence-Based Programs for Chinese Americans — Article from NCOA exploring learnings and best practices for working with the Chinese-American community

## Related Topics

                    - Healthy Aging  — Information and resources on additional health concerns facing aging adults

*Last modified on 01/16/2024*

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