TFAH and The John A Hartford Foundation Facilitate Partnerships to Create Age-Friendly Public Health Systems

TFAH, with funding from the John A. Hartford Foundation, is exploring the role of local public health departments in addressing the needs of the nation’s growing population of older adults. A key role of public health is collaboration and yet TFAH found that many public health departments weren’t aware of organizations in their communities that were already delivering programs and services targeted at improving the well-being of older adults. A recent interview with John Auerbach, TFAH’s President, and CEO, Anne De Biasi, TFAH’s Director of Policy Development, and Megan Wolfe, TFAH’s Policy Development Manager, examines the value of collaborations between public health and aging services and highlights how TFAH and The John A. Hartford Foundation are helping to facilitate these partnerships to help create Age-Friendly Public Health Systems. The interview is described in ASA’s Aging Today article, A Bridge Not So Far: A New Action Network Connects Public Health with Aging Services.