Transitional Improvement
CMS and state quality improvement organizations are working to better understand and prevent transition problems.

CDC Community-Based Fall Prevention Materials
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has three resources to prevent falls among the elderly in community settings.

An Ounce of Prevention
Quality programs help keep elders out of hospitals.

Learn More About Going Smokefree
Find out about aging-services providers efforts to go smokefree.

Survey Offers AAHSA Members Suggestions for Promoting Wellness
The National Whole-Person Wellness survey evaluated several AAHSA members on their wellness programming and includes information that you can use to develop or enhance your services, activities and physical design to encourage wellness among the people you serve.

Survey Offers AAHSA Members Suggestions for Promoting Wellness
The National Whole-Person Wellness survey evaluated several AAHSA members on their wellness programming and includes information that you can use to develop or enhance your services, activities and physical design to encourage wellness among the people you serve.

Wellness Programs Pump Up Strength and Independence
Wellness can be a catalyst for organizational culture change.

Healthy Aging Bulletin Board 12 Month Kit
This kit provides “ready-to-use” materials to create professional and accurate monthly bulletin boards on key preventative care topics appropriate for your community. The full kit has a year’s worth of information and tools about Medicare preventive health benefits. Each month has a different health topic theme. This valuable resource is available to AAHSA members for $149 (AAHSA Bookstore Item #CME002).

Fifty Plus Promotes Active Lifestyle
Fifty Plus encourages fitness and a more active lifestyle for those who are fifty years or older and shows that misuse and disuse of the body and mind are more the cause of disability than chronological age alone.

Building a Culture of Wellness
"Wellness" can encompass a person's physical, intellectual, social, emotional, spiritual, vocational and environmental health. Humans have the capacity to develop throughout life—at 80, 92 or 110. Even if they've lost some of their physical abilities, individuals can still grow in other ways.

The International Council on Active Aging
The International Council on Active Aging® (ICAA) connects a community of like-minded professionals who share the goals of changing society's perceptions of aging and improving the quality of life for aging Baby Boomers and older adults within the six dimensions of wellness (emotional, vocational, physical, spiritual, intellectual, social).