2018 Healthy Aging Summit

About the 2018 Healthy Aging Summit

Now is the time to examine the critical factors that contribute to healthy aging and empower the next generation of older adults. In 2015, the U.S. population included an estimated 47.8 million people age 65 and older. By 2060, people in this age group will comprise nearly one in four U.S. residents. The growth of this population is one of the most significant shifts in demographic trends in the history of our country, with an influx of baby boomers—people born between 1946 and 1964—making this age group the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population. The Summit will focus on keeping Americans healthy as they transition into older adulthood and maximizing the health of all older adults through prevention strategies like encouraging healthy lifestyles, planning for aging, improving the use of preventive services, and much more.

Using social determinants of health to focus on healthy aging. What contributes to longer and healthier lives throughout older adulthood? The Summit will highlight interventions, services, supports, and strategies that optimize health and prevent, avert, or delay entry into the healthcare system. Greater understanding of the social, environmental, emotional, and other factors that influence health in the later years of life redefines how we approach aging and can reduce healthcare costs to individuals, families, caregivers, systems, and communities.

Your work is part of this collective effort. The 2018 Healthy Aging Summit seeks broad participation by subject matter experts from diverse disciplines, provider types, and the public-private sectors. We want to learn from subject matter experts first-hand what is working across important areas such as healthcare, transportation, built environment, housing, law and policy, and faith-based partnerships.

The 2018 Healthy Aging Summit goals are to:

Explore the science on healthy aging;
Identify knowledge gaps;
Promote prevention; and
Support people aging in place and in their community.

Tracks and Themes

Using social determinants of health to focus on healthy aging.

What contributes to longer and healthier lives throughout older adulthood? The Summit will highlight interventions, services, supports, and strategies that optimize health and prevent, avert, or delay entry into the healthcare system. Greater understanding of the social, environmental, emotional, and other factors that influence health in the later years of life redefines how we approach aging and can reduce healthcare costs to individuals, families, caregivers, systems, and communities. The Summit will highlight these factors through the following meeting tracks:

Social and Community Context
Maximizing Quality of Life
Health and Health Care
Neighborhood and Built Environment

Cross-Cutting Themes

Technology and Health IT
Health equity and disparities
Health literacy and cultural competency
Demographic considerations (urban/rural, state/local/tribal)

Track Details

Social and Community Context

Purpose: Identify innovative community-based programs that build engagement, cohesiveness, and resilience, that encourage achievement and maintenance of good health.

Areas of focus:

21st Century Aging
Age-friendly communities
Aging in place
Assistive technology
Behavioral health
Brain health
Care coordination and care transitions
Disability
Function
Home safety, accessibility and aesthetics
Intergenerational opportunities
Late in life learning
Lifestyle factors (e.g. tobacco cessation, alcohol and substance abuse, nutrition and physical activity)
Obesity and other primary health challenges
Sense of purpose
Sleeplessness
Social and civic engagement
Social engagement and connectedness
Spirituality
Volunteerism
Working longer

Maximizing Quality of Life

Purpose: Highlight opportunities to optimize health and empower full potential throughout the age continuum.

Areas of focus:

Advanced care planning
Behavioral health (e.g. depression and suicide prevention)
Caregiver quality of life
Caregiving for spouse/adult child
Chronic pain
Dementia
Disability
Economic stability
Elder justice
Fall prevention
Hospice and palliative care
Intergenerational issues
Lifestyle factors (e.g. tobacco cessation, alcohol and substance abuse, nutrition and physical activity)
Nutrition
Oral health
Physical activity
Recreation
Shared decision making
Stress

Health and Health Care

Purpose: Explore ways that public health and healthcare intersect to promote healthy aging. Showcase how clinicians and other providers are working together with public health professionals to improve older adults’ health and healthcare delivery.

Areas of focus:

Brain health
Care transitions
Caregiver health
Community planning
Community-based providers
Culturally competent care
Gender-specific health conditions
Health literacy
Immune system vulnerability
Immunizations
Multiple chronic conditions
Obesity-related issues
Osteoarthritis
Paid caregiver workforce
Person-centered care
Planning for aging
Preventive care
Self-management strategies (e.g. mediation management, multiple chronic conditions, )
Sexual health

Neighborhood and Built Environment

Purpose: Explore innovative approaches in developing environments that support geographically, ethnically, and socially diverse populations. This includes working across multiple sectors and partners.

Areas of focus:

Access to health care services and supportive services
Age-friendly communities including built environment initiatives
Building partnerships with key built environment/urban planners stakeholders
Care management and resources
Dementia-friendly communities
Emergency department and hospital care
Emergency preparedness
Existing resources and barriers to access
Financial security
Healthcare and public health workforce
Home safety, accessibility, and aesthetics
Isolation
Long term care facilities, assisted living facilities, continuing care communities, congregate care, NORCs, new models
Smart homes and new technology
Sustainable communities
Transportation
Work issues

Summit Partners

Summit partners include the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and the Office of Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the American College of Preventive Medicine.

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