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This resource guide contains a range of tools, materials and information related to advanced care planning, including financial, housing, medical, legal, and palliative/hospice care assistance. It is the result of a comprehensive, environmental scan of available dementiaspecific advanced care planning resources. This guide is intended to be used primarily by people living with dementia and their care partners. It should be used as a tool to help navigate and provide recommendations for effective care, services, and considerations at various stages of cognitive impairment and dementia.

Utilizing and Promoting Social Engagement for Loneliness, Isolation, & Depression in the Elderly (UPSLIDE) is a Tallahassee Senior Center program that has won two awards for its work in helping adults age 50 and older become and stay socially engaged. UPSLIDE hosts Friends Connection chat groups which provide a welcoming community of support and social interaction in a fun, relaxed and creative environment. UPSLIDE also offers assessment visits, individual counseling, social engagement support, transportation, technology & resource assistance.

This publications database is a searchable bibliography, allowing you to quickly access the literature on the aging population and climate change.
Source: Cornell Institute for Research on Climate & Aging
https://climateaging.bctr.cornell.edu/

Ageing is a critical, yet overlooked development issue directly implicating 12.2% of the global population, with currently more than 901 million people aged 60 and older, an increasing majority of whom live in low and middle-income countries. Despite their demographic significance, older persons have been typically unrecognized by international development programmes, policy, and discourse, and as a result, low-and-middle-income countries have fallen behind in developing capacities to address the needs of their ageing populations.

This manual is designed to give trainers all the necessary information to design a successful learning experience to conduct a day-long training to enhance law enforcement officers’ abilities to respond to crimes of sexual assault against older people. There are two uses for this manual. Before the training, the manual should be reviewed and used to prepare for the training, including copying the camera-ready participant materials found in the manual. During the training, the manual provides a script for presenting the information and guiding the participants.

Elder abuse often goes unreported and unnoticed to the public. Types of abuse include physical, verbal/mental, financial, sexual, caregiving neglect, and self neglect. This guide addresses many types of elder abuse and how to prevent such abuses. It also helps seniors avoid becoming victims of scams and theft. Links to additional resources are also provided.

Source: SeniorLiving.org, 2025
https://www.seniorliving.org/

As we live longer, we know we’ll need a health system that understands what makes our care unique as we age. The John A.

This site provides information and resources on vaccines for older adults, including COVID-19, influenza, pneumonia, shingles, and RSV.

Source: Health in Aging (HiA), 2025
https://www.healthinaging.org/

The Age-Friendly Communities Symposium brought together individuals from the Intermountain West to identify innovations and opportunities that will transform how neighborhoods, campuses, and health environments foster the independence, productivity, and wellbeing of older adults. This page has recordings and graphics of different presentations with ideas on how to provide Age-Friendly Communities.

This tip sheet created by Health in Aging provides a variety of tips on how to maintain and improve health in older men. It also provides a list of assessments and screening tests that can be completed to help diagnose certain health problems earlier. (A PDF version is available for download).