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Strengthening Community Resilience: Supporting Older Adults Through Emergency Preparedness And Response In A Post-COVID Era
This report summarizes the ways in which older adults and aging-service providers have demonstrated resilience in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing climate change events as well as build on previous findings to develop recommendations to support older adults and the professionals who work with them—in NYC and beyond—in the face of future emergencies.
Aging Well in The Bronx - A Collaboration With the Bronx Borough President's Office
This report presents the results of a borough-wide survey aimed at understanding the resources available to older adults in the Bronx and outlines recommendations for enhancing age-inclusivity and improving the quality of life for the borough’s older residents.
Shaping A Social Isolation Strategy For Older Adults
This report, with support from The John A. Hartford Foundations, summarizes insights from our January 2024 convening on collaborative strategies to reduce social isolation and loneliness among older adults.
How to Thrive Together: A Toolkit to Sustain, Grow & Fund Your Age-friendly Neighborhood Organization
Leveraging generous funding from the New York State Health Foundation’s (NYSHealth) COVID-19 Response Grant, NYAM convened 20 age-friendly organizations in New York City every month from July through December 2020. Based on learnings from those convenings, this toolkit is to designed support age-friendly neighborhood organizations in sustaining, growing and funding their work.
Get Out the Count: Strategies for Optimizing 2020 Census Participation Among Older People
NYAM launched a new toolkit to help ensure that the older New York population is accurately represented in the 2020 Census. The toolkit was designed for professionals who regularly interact with older adults, such as those working in aging services, housing, government, healthcare, community-based organizations, library services and more.
Age-friendly Manhattan: Steps to a More Age-friendly Manhattan
This report explains the findings of a borough-wide survey that informs the work of Age-friendly Manhattan, an initiative launched in partnership with the Borough President’s Office to ensure that Manhattan is inclusive and welcoming to its older residents.
Age-friendly Brooklyn: Findings and Recommendations
This report explains the findings of a borough-wide survey that informs the work of Age-friendly Brooklyn, an initiative launched in partnership with the Borough President’s Office to ensure that Brooklyn is inclusive and welcoming to its older residents.
NYS Health Across All Policies/Age-friendly NY Roadmap Report
With changing demographics, there is no better time than the present to help New York’s communities to work collaboratively in undertaking age-friendly actions that strengthen people’s connections to each other, improve health, increase physical activity, and support and advance the economic environment through proactive design and future-based planning. This roadmap will help New York communities consider and include age-friendly elements of wellness and community revitalization into their planning.
Testimony for United States Senate Special Committee on Aging: Community and Connection
Lindsay Goldman, LMSW, NYAM's former Director of the Center for Healthy Aging, testified on May 17, 2017, before the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging for the hearing: “Aging with Community: Building Connections to Last a Lifetime.”
How Can States Support an Aging Population? Actions Policymakers Can Take
Through our partnership, the Milbank Memorial Fund and The New York Academy of Medicine organized three conferences in the fall of 2015 on state level policy interventions around the nation that integrate aging and public health. This report provides a review of the issues discussed at the conferences, as well as some recommendations for age-friendly state policy interventions.
Aging: Health Challenges and the Role of Social Connections
This report in the “City Voices: New Yorkers on Health” series underscores the critical importance of healthy relationships for older adults and explores the struggles of aging in the city. The report is the result of an extensive community needs assesment comprised of surveys and focus groups conducted in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx with residents ranging in age from 65 to 102, in 10 languages.
Resilient Communities: Empowering Older Adults in Disasters & Daily Life
Drawing on the lessons of Superstorm Sandy, “Resilient Communities: Empowering Older Adults in Disasters and Daily Life,” presents an innovative set of recommendations to strengthen and connect formal and informal support systems to keep older adults safe during future disasters.