Healthy Aging

Promoting health and preventing disease in older Americans is key to the health of the nation. Across ODPHP initiatives, we support efforts to help older adults live longer and stay healthy. Read about educational opportunities, ways to collaborate across sectors, and resources to support your healthy aging work.

Connection Is Key to Aging Well

Healthy Aging.

This guest post is part of Healthy People in Action, a blog series highlighting how key partners use the Healthy People framework in their work, form cross-sector collaborations, and address social determinants of health to help achieve health equity. In this post, the author discusses volunteering as a means to improve social connection for older adults and the resulting positive health outcomes for both those being served and the volunteer.

Check Out Our New Key Indicators for Healthy Aging Data Snapshot

Healthy Aging.

A new resource from ODPHP, Key Indicators for Healthy Aging, highlights Healthy People 2030 objectives that are critical to healthy aging. This data snapshot focuses on indicators related to the social determinants of health and health behaviors that impact aging – like physical activity and healthy eating.

EnhanceFitness: Helping Older Adults Get Active and Stay Independent

This blog post is part of a spotlight series featuring examples of programs and community design changes that get older adults moving. The posts were first published as part of the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans Midcourse Report: Implementation Strategies for Older Adults and highlight ways to apply strategies from the report in different settings.

Registration Now Open for 2024 National Healthy Aging Symposium

2024 Healthy Aging Symposium Date Card

Registration is now open for the 2024 National Healthy Aging Symposium! Join the HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and Trust for America’s Health to hear from speakers from across the federal government, states, tribes, territories and local communities, as well as philanthropy and academia, who will share their perspectives on successful innovations developed to improve the health and well-being of older adults.