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    Innovation and Hope: Building Momentum to Address Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Series

    Innovation and Hope is a four-part webinar series and partnership between Grantmakers In Aging and the Helen Daniels Bader Alzheimer's & Healthy Aging Speaker Series

    Topics: Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias Caregiving
    Type: Webinar Recording
    May 30, 2024

    Care is Fundamental: How Funders Can Accelerate Vital Progress on Caregiving

    This guide outlines the wide range of grant-funded efforts to support both family caregivers and the paid direct care workforce, opportunities for funders to get involved, and other sectors also now focusing on caregiving.

    Topic: Caregiving
    Types: Guide & Toolkit Report
    March 25, 2024

    National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers Action Guide for Philanthropy

    Actionable ideas for philanthropy to fuel efforts to recognize, assist, include, support, and engage family caregivers. 

    Topic: Caregiving
    Type: Guide & Toolkit
    August 25, 2023

    Multisector Plans for Aging: A Global Perspective

    Across the United States, Multisector Plans for Aging are driving public-private partnerships at the highest level of state government. Globally, 128 countries have national or subnational plans on aging. These plans have the potential to influence policies and funding mechanisms across sectors with corresponding metrics to track impact.

    Topics: Age-Friendly Communities Public Policy
    Type: Webinar Recording
    March 14, 2023

    Multisector Plans for Aging: Important Roles and Opportunities for Funders

    Learn the fundamentals of the Multisector Plans for Aging movement and see how funders can and should get involved to help advance this essential work.

    Topic: Multisector Plans for Aging
    Type: Guide & Toolkit
    January 1, 2023

    GIA's Guide to Impact Investing: A Tool for Accelerating Healthy Aging for All in Livable Communities

    This guide takes a deep dive into the topic of impact investing and highlights funders across the GIA network and beyond who are leveraging impact investments to create healthier, more age-integrated communities.

    Topics: Age-Friendly Communities Impact Investing
    Type: Guide & Toolkit
    January 1, 2023

    Prevent and Reduce Social Isolation

    Social isolation is an epidemic in the United States, affecting two-thirds of older adults and three-quarters of young people (as reported during COVID). Social isolation is linked to depression, poor sleep, and impaired immunity. It increases the risks of dementia by 50 percent, stroke by 32 percent, and coronary heart disease by 29 percent, and significantly increases the risk of premature death from all causes.

    Topics: Age-Friendly Communities Social Connection
    Type: Issue Brief
    December 12, 2022

    Age-Friendly Health Systems Issue Brief

    Age-Friendly Health Systems aim to follow an essential set of evidence-based practices; cause no harm; and align with what matters to older adults and their caregivers. This issue brief provides background on the need and an update on a new movement that seeks to transform how our healthcare system approaches the care of older adults.

    Topics: Age-Friendly Communities Health Care
    Type: Issue Brief
    January 1, 2022

    Creating New Connections: How Philanthropy Can Support Better Care for People with Complex Health and Social Needs

    This report summarizes key issues relevant to understanding complex care and offers resources and case studies for funders interested in entering the field or deepening their existing work. It also profiles funding opportunities, explores existing models, and shares philanthropic lessons learned.

    Topics: Caregiving Health Care Public Policy Social Connection
    Type: Guide & Toolkit
    October 13, 2020

    Innovation at Home Funders Guide

    This report from Grantmakers In Aging, seeks to capture a range of promising approaches to aging in community being used globally.  
     

    Topics: Age-Friendly Communities Housing
    Type: Guide & Toolkit
    June 11, 2019

    The Case for Age-Friendly Communities

    Explore the economic, social, and personal benefits of making a community more age-friendly.

    Topic: Age-Friendly Communities
    Type: White Paper
    February 2, 2016

    Guiding Principles for the Sustainability of Age-Friendly Community Efforts

    How do we build on the age-friendly community movement's successes to date and accelerate sustainable progress at local, state, national, and international levels? Grantmakers In Aging (GIA) brought together national and international leaders to explore a variety of issues related to the concept and to its sustainability. Through key informant interviews, focus groups, and a two-day leadership summit held in September 2015 in Washington, DC, we distilled best practices in sustainable age-friendly communities work that resulted in the framework presented in this document. This framework is an important outcome of GIA’s Community AGEnda initiative, a three-year effort to increase age-friendly activities in selected United States regions that was supported by The Pfizer Foundation.

    Topic: Age-Friendly Communities
    Type: Report
    October 1, 2015

    Community AGEnda offers new age-friendly community toolkit

    Community AGEnda, the age-friendly initiative of Grantmakers in Aging, has released a new age-friendly community toolkit. This exciting new resource is available to advocates for age-friendly communities around the world and addresses the challenge in communicating effectively about this promising idea. Learn to how to create more effective messages, shape brochures, and frame public communications campaigns. Toolkit partners such as WHO Age-Friendly Cities, AARP Livable Communities and AARP International, The Village to Village Network, N4A, the AdvantAGE Initiative contributed their valuable experience and research.

    Topic: Age-Friendly Communities
    Type: Guide & Toolkit
    September 1, 2015

    Age-Friendly Communities: A Blueprint for Success

    View ways to make your community more age-friendly with this infographic.

    Topic: Age-Friendly Communities
    Type: Guide & Toolkit
    January 2, 2014

    Community Agenda: Talking About Age-Friendly Communities

    Learn how to create more effective messages or talking points, develop printed materials, and frame public communications campaigns.

    Topic: Age-Friendly Communities
    Type: Guide & Toolkit
    January 2, 2014

    Age-Friendly Communities: The Movement to Create Great Places to Grow Up and Grow Old in America

    Explore new, transformative ways of thinking about aging and community development. 

    Topic: Age-Friendly Communities
    Type: Issue Brief
    April 1, 2013

    Age-Friendly Communities Issue Brief

    Older adults can be a vital asset to communities and community development, contributing their experience, leadership, and, often, economic participation. Unfortunately, most live in places that are not well prepared for an aging population, and most communities have a long way to go before they can be called “age-friendly” – that is, great places to grow up and grow old.

    GIA has identified age-friendly community development as an issue of great promise and compelling need, with enormous potential for important contributions by funders.

    Topic: Age-Friendly Communities
    Type: Issue Brief
    January 1, 2012

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