About These Resources

The resources below have been selectively chosen to be useful to those interested in healthy aging programs that deal with chronic disease. Following the links below will bring you to a more detailed description of each resource and a link to the resource itself. Please contact us with comments or suggestions.

Checklists, Questionnaires and Tests

• Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living for Older Adults

• Physical Activity Programs Checklist

Fact Sheets/Brochures

• Steps to Healthy Aging: Eating Better and Moving More

Issue Briefs

• Moving Ahead: Strategies and Tools to Plan, Conduct and Maintain Effective Community-Based Physical Activity Programs for Older Adults

Issue Briefs: Physical Activity Series

• Best Practices in Physical Activity

• Designing Safe and Effective Physical Activity Programs

• Keeping Current on Research and Practice in Physical Activity for Older Adults

• Maintaining Participation of Older Adults in Community-Based Physical Activity Programs

• Motivating Participants to Be More Physically Active

• Recruiting and Retaining Effective Instructors for Physical Activity Programs

• Recruiting Older Adults Into Your Physical Activity Programs

Learning Modules

• Best Practices in Physical Activity Programming for Older Adults: Lessons Learned

Manuals and Guides

• Exercise: A Guide from the National Institute on Aging

• Health Promotion Strategies for Community Health Services: An Evidence-Based Planning Framework for Nutrition, Physical Activity and Healthy Weight

• Motivating Frail Older Adults to be Physically Active

• National Blueprint: Increasing Physical Activity Among Adults Age 50 and Older

• Physical Activity Evaluation Handbook

• Reference Guide of Physical Activity Programs for Older Adults

• Working With Your Local Physicians

Presentation Slides

• Active Options for Aging Americans

• Active Options for Aging Texans

• Engaging Frail Elders in Evidence-Based Home Physical Activity

• Healthy Moves for Aging Well (Best Practice Symposium)

• New Care Management Strategies to Improve Health Outcomes

• Project Enhance: EnhanceFitness

• Symposium: What Elders Tell Us [About Injury Prevention/ Health Promotion Programs]

Program Summary

• Evidence-Based Program Summary: Arthritis Foundation Exercise Program

• Evidence-Based Program Summary: EnhanceFitness

• Evidence-Based Program Summary: EnhanceWellness

• Evidence-Based Program Summary: Fit and Strong!

• Evidence-Based Program Summary: Healthy Moves for Aging Well

Reports

• A New Vision of Aging: Helping Older Adults Make Healthier Choices

• Building on Best Practices: Consenus Report on Physical Activity Programming

• Characteristics of Physical Activity Programs for Older Adults: Results of a Multisite Study

• Community-Wide Campaign to Promote Physical Activity Among Midlife and Older Adults

• Cultural Approaches to Promoting Physical Activity for Older Adults

• Healthy Aging - A Good Investment: Exemplary Programs for Senior Centers and Other Facilities

• NCOA Selects Nation's Best Physical Activity Programs: Seniors Reap the Benefits

• Older Adult Perspectives on Physical Activity and Exercise

• Physical Activity and Public Health in Older Adults: Recommendation From ACSM and AHA

• Strategies for Action: Integrating Nutrition and Physical Activity Promotion to Reach Low-Income Californians

• Synthesis of AARP Research in Physical Activity, 1999-2003

Toolkits

• Active Start: Replication Report

• Cambios Saludables (Healthy Changes) Toolkit

• EnhanceFitness: Replication Report

• NCI-ACES: Replication Report

• NCOA Model Health Programs Toolkit: Healthy Changes

• NCOA Model Health Programs Toolkit: Healthy Moves for Aging Well

• Project SIEN: Replication Report

• Steps to Healthy Aging: Eating Better and Moving More: a Guidebook for Older Americans Act Nutrition Programs

• The Active Aging Toolkit: Promoting Physical Activity in Older Adults for Healthcare Providers

Websites - Health Information

• NIH SeniorHealth: Exercise for Older Adults

Websites - Organizations

• National Senior Games Association

• Senior Services of Seattle: Project Enhance (includes EnhanceFitness and EnhanceWellness)