HEALTHY AGING / HEALTHY BRAIN
NACDD ACTION ON HEALTHY AGING AND BRAIN HEALTH
Integrating Alzheimer’s Messages into Chronic Disease Programs
Healthy behaviors related to heart disease, diabetes, nutrition, physical activity, hearing, sleep, and traumatic brain injury can also reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias. In partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this project adapts existing chronic disease risk reduction messages to include information about how these behaviors can also reduce the risk for cognitive decline. This project aligns with the call to action in the most recent version of the Healthy Brain Initiative Roadmap, which is to integrate best available evidence about brain health and cognitive decline risk factors into existing health communications that promote health and chronic disease management for people across the lifespan.
Public health professionals from various chronic disease programs can work together to promote the inclusion of brain health messages into chronic disease risk reduction programs. The Integrating Alzheimer’s Messages into Chronic Disease Programs Guide will help you identify ways to collaborate with other programs and integrate messages about brain health into existing disease risk reduction communications.
Chronic disease risk reduction messages that promote brain health.
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Presentations
Communication Guide Slides
Presented to recipients of the BOLD Public Health Programs Award
Feb. 2024
Successful Aging and Quality of Life
Presented at the American Public Health Association Presentation Annual Meeting
Oct. 2020
Caregiving
RESOURCES FOR CAREGIVERS
This project is funded by CDC’s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control through the CDC Center of State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support and managed by NACDD. This project examines non-traditional cancer risk factors to develop innovative resources to empower public health practitioners to put evidence-based cancer prevention strategies into action in their communities using a lifespan approach. The second year of this five-year project examines Caregiver Stress as a key focus area for cancer prevention.
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- Administration for Community Living serves as the lead Federal agency to increase access to community support, while focusing attention and resources on the unique needs of older Americans and people with disabilities across the lifespan.
- The AARP provides resources and information for caregivers and their families.
- The National Alliance for Caregiving conducts research, does policy analysis, develops national best-practice programs, and works to increase public awareness of family caregiving issues.
- The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) is the national nonprofit organization representing public health agencies in the United States, the U.S. Territories, and the District of Columbia, and offers case studies and policy recommendations to support caregivers.
- National Indian Council on Aging, Inc. has prepared The Savvy Caregiver in Indian Country, a Trainer’s Manual is designed for use by all American Indian and Alaskan Native people caring for an elder with memory loss and thinking problems.
- Best Practice Caregiving is a free online database of proven dementia programs for family caregivers. It offers a searchable, interactive, national database of vetted, effective programs that offer much-needed information and support. The database is an invaluable tool for healthcare and community-based organizations, as well as funders and policymakers to discover and share high-quality programs for caregivers.
Partners
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- National Council on the Aging (NCOA)
- The Prevention Research Centers – Healthy Aging Network (PRC-HAN)
- The Administration on Aging (AoA)
- National Association of State Units on Aging (NASUA)
- National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC)
- The International Association for Indigenous Aging (IAIA)