With this issue brief, the Center for Healthy Aging introduced a new publication series that provides information and resources to facilitate implementation of evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention programs by community-based organizations serving older adults. This series is designed to assist agency leaders to reach and serve older adults more effectively and efficiently by sharing the best available information.

This first issue brief provided the basics of evidence-based health promotion programming. In the Spring of 2006, it was revised to reflect the addition of evidence-based programs that are ready for national dissemination across the aging network.