Partnering with the YMCA to Advance Age-Friendly Work

The Intersections Between Aging and Disability Policy

In this episode of Age-Friendly Public Health: The Podcast, host Dr. J. Nadine Gracia, President and CEO of Trust for America's Health is joined by Alison Barkoff, Associate Professor of Health, Law, and Policy at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, to discuss how disability and aging policy intersect and can support one another.

Partnering with the YMCA to Advance Age-Friendly Work

In this episode of Age-Friendly Public Health: The Podcast, host Dr. J Nadine Gracia, President and CEO of Trust for America's Health is joined by Katie Adamson, Vice President for Health Partnerships and Policy at YMCA of the USA. They discuss the well-known and subtle ways YMCAs across the country support healthy aging.

Building an Age-Friendly Ecosystem in Mississippi

In this episode of Age-Friendly Public Health: The Podcast, Building an Age-Friendly Ecosystem in Mississippi, Dr. Kina White, Director of the Office of Community Health Improvement at the Mississippi State Department of Health, joins host, TFAH President and CEO Dr. J. Nadine Gracia, to discuss her work to build an age-friendly ecosystem in her home state. Dr. White and her team utilized a 2020 AFPHS funding opportunity to cultivate both internal and external partnerships, including with AARP and the Mississippi Public Health Association, to better understand the needs of older adults and to develop a statewide action plan for prioritizing healthy aging. Listen to the episode to learn more about how to create a similar age-friendly ecosystem in your state.

Where It All Began

This first episode of the AFPHS podcast, Where It All Began, features Dr. Terry Fulmer, President of The John A. Hartford Foundation and a long-time champion for changing the landscape of health and aging, discussing the age-friendly public health movement with TFAH President and CEO Dr. J. Nadine Gracia, the host of the podcast series. Future guests will include prominent partners from the fields of public health and aging, as well as noted academic experts and representatives from governmental public health agencies who will share their insights and learnings on how we, as a nation, can best create a system that supports older adult health and creates an environment for health across the life course.