Health in Aging: Wellness & Prevention
Preventive health is the medical term for care that helps us protect, promote, and maintain health and well-being. If you’re an older adult or a caregiver for an older person, you can access important information here about wellness, preventative health, and other issues that can keep us healthy and safe for as long as possible. Topics include prevention, geriatrics, falls prevention, managing multiple health problems, nutrition, physical activity, and safe driving.
Source: Health in Aging (HiA), 2025
Health in Aging (HiA)
HealthinAging.org is the Health in Aging Foundation’s (HiAF) public education portal, providing older adults and caregivers with up-to-date information on health and aging—as well as access to a network of geriatrics healthcare professionals. The HiAF Board of Directors and the American Geriatrics Society (AGS)/HiAF Public Education Committee provide editorial oversight for HealthinAging.org. AGS members with additional expertise on select topics also provide professional review of HealthinAging.org content, where appropriate.
Health in Aging: Caregiver Health
This section provides information and resources for caregivers. Included is the Caregiver Guide and the Caregiver Health Self Assessment Questionnaire. Tipsheets include How to Be the Best Caregiver You Can Be, Avoiding Caregiver Burnout, Long-Distance Caregiving.
Source: Health in Aging (HiA), 2025
https://www.healthinaging.org/
Health in Aging: Cultural Navigator
While there may be wide differences among individuals within each race and ethnicity, your background can play a factor in your risk for certain diseases, the way that you think about your health, and your relationship with your healthcare professional. The Health in Aging Cultural Navigator Series addresses the role of race and ethnicity in your health. These resources are intended to help you understand special health concerns you may have, as well as how your cultural beliefs and practices may play a role in your health.
Health in Aging: Medications & Older Adults
People 65 years old and older take prescribed medications more frequently than any other age group in the United States. Most older adults take several medicines to treat chronic illnesses. Healthcare providers may also prescribe medications to older adults to help prevent certain illnesses. This section provides important information on medication safety for us all as we age.
Source: Health in Aging (HiA), 2025
https://www.healthinaging.org/
Pregnancy After Loss Support Online Magazine
Pregnancy After Loss Support (PALS) is dedicated to ensuring that every mom and her partner who is experiencing pregnancy after loss is able to find support and connection among both peers and health care professionals who understand and validate the unique and complex experience of pregnancy after a previous perinatal or child death.
PALS offers several online article resources including:
Investing in bereavement care as a public health priority
Morbidity and mortality associated with bereavement is an important public health issue, yet economic and resource investments to effectively implement and sustain integrated bereavement services are sorely lacking at national and global levels. Although bereavement support is a component of palliative care provision, continuity of care for bereaved individuals is often not standard practice in palliative and end-of-life contexts.
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Aging, Agency, and Attribution of Responsibility: Shifting Public Discourse about Older Adults
This report analyzes and compares media and advocacy organizations’ narratives about aging and older adults. The goal of the report is to suggest communications strategies that advocates can use to push media discourse in more productive directions, and ultimately increase public support for the policies and programs necessary to promote the well-being of older adults, and ensure their full participation in American society.
"Gauging Aging: Mapping the Gaps Between Expert and Public Understandings of Aging in America"
This report is the first step in a larger collaboration with the Leaders of Aging Organizations, a group administered by Grantmakers in Aging that includes the AARP, the American Federation for Aging Research, the American Geriatrics Society, the American Society on Aging, the Gerontological Society of America, the National Council on Aging, and the National Hispanic Council on Aging. The collaboration seeks to develop a new, evidence-based narrative around the process of aging in our country, and the roles and contributions of older Americans.