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• Evidence-Based Programs Available via Remote Delivery
• Tools for Reaching a Remote Audience, NCOA
• Self-Management During the COVID-19 Crisis Updated 05/18/2020
• Project Enhance and COVID-19: Recommendations for Program Delivery Updated 12/18/2020
• PEARLS Update on Training and TA given COVID-19
• Healthy IDEAS and COVID-19: Suggestions on Implementation and Training Updated 06/25/2020
• A Matter of Balance and COVID-19: Direction for Program Delivery
• Fit & Strong! Classes in Light of COVID-19
• CAPABLE Implementation Sites and COVID-19
• HomeMeds Program Delivery during COVID-19
• The Otago Exercise Program and Covid‐19: Guidance for Program Delivery
• Active Living Every Day Implementation and COVID-19
   

Learn more about recent publications highlighting our efforts to advance innovative health programs.

EBLC

• COVID-19 Deaths Show How the Safety Net Fails Nuring Home Residents Chicago Tribune, June 2020
• Project Open Hand Commits to Continue Serving Medically Tailored Meals to Economically Disadvantaged Patients in San Francisco, March 2020
• American Society on Aging, Aging Today: Yes, Exercise is Medicine- and part of integrated care planning, March-April 2019
• Advancing Geroscience Research with Support from the National Institute on Aging and Other Federal Agencies, February 2019
• Here is the link to Ask Dr. Kate Lorig About the Role of the Chronic Disease Self-Management Education in the Opioid Epidemic! The opioid epidemic is impacting every community across the country and older adults are particularly hard hit for a number of reasons. Join the Self-Management Resource Center, the National Council on Aging, and the Evidence-Based Leadership Council for a discussion about the role of chronic disease self-management education in addressing the opioid epidemic. This webinar will provide a forum to ask questions about opioid use in older adults and applicability of the Chronic Pain Self-Management Program as a tool for prevention and management.
• Scaling Evidence-Based Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Programs to Promote Healthy Aging. 
• EBLC Dossier 
• Crosswalk - Evidence-Based Leadership Council Programs & the 4 Ms July, 2018

EBLC BLOG 

• Promoting Dementia Care Partner Health: Implementing REACH Community  November, 2020, Tamara H. Herrick, PhD

• Depression Amid Covid-19 October 2019, June Simmons, MSW

• Fighting Falls with Fire: Partnering with the Fire Department to Decrease Falls Among Older Adults September 2020, Christy Lau, MSSW

• Evidence Based Programs Improve Whole Person Wellness August 2020, Stephanie FallCreek, DSW

• Staying Healthy by Staying Home: Reaching Older Adults with Evidence-Based Programs through Online and Telephonic Formats July 2020,  Allison Goforth

• Tapping Technology to Bring Tai Chi to Older Adults: Older People Adapt to Keep Moving June 2020, Jennifer Davis

• It’s Never Too Late to Start! May 2020, Paige Denison

• Self-Efficacy to Cope with Coronavirus April 2020, Melissa deCardi Hladek, PHD, MSN, RN

• Social Engagement While Physical Distancing: A new role for evidence-based programs during the Covid-19 pandemic March 2020, Jennifer Raymond, JD, MBA

• Benefits of including Evidence-Based Programs in Heart Disease Management. February 2020, Carol Nohelia Montoya FMD, MPH

• Healthcare's Invisible Workforce: Honoring & Supporting Family Caregivers during National Family Caregiver Month. November 2019, Jennifer Raymond, JD, MBA

• Taking medications at the right time, in the right dose, in the right way. September 2019, W. June Simmons, MSW & Sandy Atkins

• I Have a Chronic Illness—I don’t “know” what to do—No One Gave me the Textbook. April 2019, Kate Lorig, DrPH

• "It all started when she tripped and fell." March 2019, Gloria Neault, MSN, RN, MaineHealth

Fit &Strong!

• Fit and Strong!: Bolstering Maintenance of Physical Activity Among Older Adults With Lower Extremity Osteoarthritis, American Journal of Health Behavior, 2010

EnhanceFitness

• New York State Department of Health's Arthritis Program and the New York State YMCA Foundation Inc. work together to make the EnhanceFitness Program available through corporate YMCA Associations statewide. August, 2018
• CDC: Physical Activity for Older Adults. June, 2016
• Champions of An Older Adult Exercise Program: Believers, Promoters, and Recruiters. April, 2016
• Exercise is Medicine. Story from the Field. March, 2016
• Enhance Fitness promoting kidney health with free fitness classes, ABC12 news, 2015
• EnhanceFitness: a 20-year dissemination history, Frontiers in Public Health, 2015
• New Partnership Provides Fitness Professionals with Foundation to Lead Senior Adults in Safe and Effective Exercise, ACE Fitness, 2015
• EnhanceFitness Helps Older Adults Sustain Active, Healthy Lifestyles, AgeWise King County, 2015
• Participation in Older Adult Physical Activity Programs and Risk for Falls Requiring Medical Care, Washington State, 2005-2011, Preventing Chronic Disease, 2015

EnhanceWellness

• Find the Power to Change: How Counseling Empowers Seniors and Adults with Disabilities. January, 2017
• Aging with Grace (video). January, 2015

A Matter of Balance

• Fear of falling: One trip can cause serious damage. Here’s how to avoid it. Washington Post, 2015
• Hospitals Step Up To Help Seniors Avoid Falls, Kaiser Health News, 2015
• Dissemination of an Evidence-based Program to Reduce Fear of Falling, South Carolina, 2006-2009, Preventing Chronic Disease, 2012
• A matter of balance: older adults taking control of falls by building confidence, Frontiers in Public Health, 2015
• Community Spotlight: Seniors Take Class To Prepare & Prevent Falls, Lakeland Public Television, 2015

PEARLS

• Program to Encourage Active Rewarding Lives Helps Kent Veteran Succeed in Problem Solving, AgeWise King County, 2012

CDSMP

• Chronic Disease Self-Management Program: insights from the eye of the storm, Frontiers in Public Health, 2015
• Can a Box of Mailed Material Achieve the Triple Aims of Healthcare? The Mailed Chronic Disease Self-Management Tool Kit Study, Health Promotion Practice, 2015
• Effects of chronic disease self-management programs for participants with higher depression scores: secondary analyses of an on-line and a small-group program, TBM, 2014
• Effectiveness of the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program for Persons with Serious Mental Illness: A Translation Study, Community Mental Health, 2013
• The impact of chronic disease self-management programs: Healthcare savings through commmunity-based interventions, BMC Public Health, 2013
• Tuskegee firefighters against chronic disease, The Tuskegee News, 2012

News from Our Partners

• Investing in the Future An NACDD White Paper. National Association of Chronic Disease Directors, November, 2018
• Older Veteran Behavioral Health Resource Inventory. Administration for Community Living, May, 2018
• Educating Adults About Chronic Disease Self-Management. NASUAD, September, 2017
• Improving Health and Quality of Life Through CDSME Programs. [video], NCOA. June, 2017
• The secret to a healthier you -- succeed by starting small. NY.com, June, 2017
• Wellness Prospective Evaluation Report on Baseline Survey Efforts and Qualitative Study of Program Operations and Costs. CMS. March, 2016
• Memory Complaints are a Harbinger of Things to Come. The Alzheimer's Association, 2015
• Mall Walking: A Program Resource Guide. CDC, 2015
• EvidenceToPrograms.com: a toolkit to support evidence-based programming for seniors. Frontiers in Public Health, 2015