The APHA
Task Force on Aging (TFA)
October 2003
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In 2001 the APHA Executive
Board mandated the establishment of a Task Force on Aging. This
Task Force will guide the Association's efforts to develop a
strategic and coordinated public health approach to individual
and population aging, which can serve as the basis for a healthy
aging policy for the Nation. Aims of the Task Force on Aging
are to:
1) Raise awareness and promote
education about aging within the American Public Health Association
and in the public health community.
2) Recommend ways to improve
the public health infrastructure in the context of aging.
3) Develop and advocate
for public policies that will improve the health and well being
of the aging population throughout the world.
Gerontological Health Section
members on the APHA Task Force on Aging include Richard Fortinsky
(Co-Chair), Allan Goldman, Nancy Persily, and Terrie Wetle.
Faye Wong, Past President of APHA, is the other Co-Chair of
this Task Force.
During 2002, the Task Force
on Aging developed the attached document, "Scope
of Public Health and Aging." This document organizes
a number of important issues regarding public health and aging
that the Task Force on Aging plans to address in the coming
years. Task Force members welcome your feedback to this document
in any of the following forms:
· Provide scientific
evidence to support or modify any specific issue included in
this document, based on your own professional work or your knowledge
of published evidence;
· Volunteer to assist the Task Force in the assembly
of scientific evidence, advocacy, or other forms of social action
in support of any specific issue;
· Provide constructive advice on how the Task Force might
address any specific issue in this document, either as an APHA-only
initiative, or in collaboration with other organizations actively
involved in promoting a healthy aging population.
Please send your feedback
to Richard Fortinsky, Ph.D., via e-mail at: fortinksy @ nso1.uchc.edu.
Thank you for your participation
in this exciting initiative.
