CIAIP. Community Innovations for Aging in Place Initiative

NCOA Webinar on Social Networking and Social Media

The National Council on Aging (NCOA) hosted an informative webinar on using social networking and social media to communicate with older adults and their families. The webinar was held in late August, and the recording and presentation slides are available here.

Generations - Journal of the American Society on Aging

The Spring 2010 (Volume 32, Number 1) is dedicated to evidence-based practice. The issue is free for members of the American Society on Aging and available for purchase by non-members. Click for more information.

Cityscape, a journal of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

The Summer 2010 issue (Volume 12, Number 2) is devoted to a symposium on "Aging in Place." The articles can be accessed directly from Cityscape's website.

Health Indicators: A Proactive and Systematic Approach to Healthy Aging by Fredda Vladeck, Rebecca Segel, Mia Oberlink, Michal Gursen, & Danylle Rudin

Authored by CIAIP NAC and TAG Team members, this article describes a data-driven, community-based, collaborative effort under way in 34 low- and moderate-income communities in New York City. The Health Indicators in NORC (naturally occurring retirement community) Programs initiative, started in 2007, has enabled community-based programs with limited resources to become more systematic in addressing the management of clients with diabetes, heart disease, or an increased risk for falls. Published in Cityscape (Volume 12, Number 2), a journal of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Download PDF Here.

Progress in Community Health Partnership

Progress in Community Health Partnerships is a national, peer reviewed journal whose mission is to identify and publicize model programs that use community partnerships to improve public health, promote progress in the methods of research and education involving community health partnerships, and stimulate action that will improve the health of people and communities.  Click for more information about the journal including instructions for authors.

CIAIP Presentation at the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (N4A) Annual Conference and Tradeshow, 2010

Presenters Greg Case (AoA's CIAIP Program Officer), Mia Oberlink (CIAIP TAG Team Project Director), and Laura Keyes (Atlanta Grantee) described the initiative, the diverse community activities, and the technical assistance provided. Download PDF here.

Phil's Adventures in Elderburbia

Phil's Adventures in Elderburbia is written by Philip B. Stafford, Ph.D., TAG Team Consultant. Phil is the Director of the Center on Aging and Community, Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, USA. He is a cultural anthropologist, involved with aging services, research and education for nearly 35 years. For the last ten years Phil has been a leader in the “elder-friendly communities” movement, which shifts the focus on aging away from the individual “needs” of elders to the community context in which the aging experience is embedded.

Aging & Disability Resource Center Web Site

The Aging & Disability Resource Center (ADRC) Web Site contains useful resources on numerous topics. Comprehensive Assessment includes a variety of assessment instruments being used by various agencies in 12 states.  Some of these wide-ranging tools are comprehensive (such as the Rhode Island Universal Comprehensive Assessment), others are more targeted (such as the caregiver assessment tool from the Family Caregiver Alliance).  And Intake and Screening provides additional tools and state intake procedures.

A Toolkit for Serving Diverse Communities

A Toolkit for Serving Diverse Communities from the the U.S. Administration on Aging provides the Aging Network and its partners with a replicable and easy-to-use method for providing respectful, inclusive, and sensitive services for any diverse community. The Toolkit consists of a four-step process and a questionnaire that assists professionals, volunteers and grassroots advocates with every stage of program planning, implementation and service delivery for older adult communities, their families and caregivers. The core principles of the toolkit include respect, inclusion and sensitivity as the hallmarks of quality service. This Toolkit is an invitation to make a cultural shift in service provision, to learn, to grow and fully appreciate the diverse community of older adults that agencies and their partners serve.

Aging Well in Communities: A Toolkit for Planning, Engagement & Action

The Center for Civic Partnerships produced a toolkit outlining a community-based planning process to promote healthy aging. Aging Well in Communities: A Toolkit for Planning, Engagement & Action is a user-friendly guide to help local governments, human service providers, community groups and other partners plan now to address both the challenges and opportunities that are coming. The toolkit is based on the Center's research and experience over the past several years assisting communities in planning for healthy aging. The Center for Civic Partnerships' mission is to provide leadership and management support to build healthier communities and more effective nonprofit organizations. Its parent organization is the Public Health Institute (PHI), one of the largest and most comprehensive public health organizations in the United States.

UC Berkeley's Creating Aging Friendly Communities

UC Berkeley's Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services and Community Strengths host a website and online network called Creating Aging Friendly Communities. Here is the website: www.agingfriendly.org for more information. The online network features collaborative activities, discussions, guest speakers, and sharing of resources, experiences, and tools to address the challenges and opportunities of making our communities more aging-friendly. Those who participate in Creating Aging-Friendly Communities will have access to resources and tools to help them create positive change in their communities. Members also receive a weekly email digest. To join the online network and receive the weekly email digest - click the link -Click here to join the free Resource Network.

Compendium of Community Aging Initiatives

The Compendium of Community Aging Initiatives was published in March by the Center for Social Services Research with support from the MetLife Foundation. The Compendium provides information on 121 initiatives and organizations across the country that are helping communities become more aging friendly. The Compendium can be accessed at: http://cssr.berkeley.edu/research_units/casas/publications.html. The Center for Social Services Research is housed in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley.

Community Partnerships for Older Adults (CPFOA)

Community Partnerships for Older Adults (CPFOA) is a national program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help communities develop leadership, innovative solutions and options to meet the needs of older adults over the long term.
www.partnershipsforolderadults.org/

Elderburbia: Aging with a Sense of Place, by Philip B. Stafford

Stafford's book draws on the field of ethnography and provides an understanding of how the aging experience is shaped by where people call home.
www.praeger.com/catalog/C36436.aspx

NORC Blueprint

NORC Blueprint provides guidelines for designing and managing high-quality NORC programs to serve the nation's seniors and their communities. The Blueprint website has information and tools that are useful for planning and implementation of a number of program models.
www.norcblueprint.org