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Livability Library: Community Health and Wellness

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FEATURED

A Community Is Enabled Through the Reuse of Walkers, Wheelchairs and More

College and high school students help clean, repair and customize toys and durable medical equipment so the items can be reused. Learn More

6 images showing students working on durable medical equipment repair projects

COMMUNITY HEALTH

Telehealth Booths Make Doctor Visits Easier (2024)

"Activity-Friendly" Routes Can Lead to Healthier Lives (2021)

An Unhealthy Community Can't Be a Great Community (2018)

How Body Building Can Build Community (2018)

How to Create an Aging-Well Resource Center (2016)

Why People of All Ages Need to Play (2016)

Age-Friendly and Dementia-Friendly Communities (2016)

FOOD INSECURITY

AARP Community Challenge Grants Help Relieve Hunger (2025)

Growing Food So Neighbors Can Eat (2018)

Helping Fight Hunger in the Heartland (2017)

How to Create an Intergenerational Community Garden (2015)

HELPING HANDS

A Community Is Enabled Through the Reuse of Walkers, Wheelchairs and More (2022)

How to Effectively (and Respectfully) Help a Community in Crisis (2020)

Helping Older Adults Feel Safe in Their Homes (2018)

Helping Secure Drinkable Water in Flint (2017)

SAGECare Teaches Elder Care Providers to Foster a Welcoming Community (2016)

SUPPORTS AND SOLUTIONS

What It's Like to Live with Memory Loss (2018

ThriveNYC: Mental Health First Aid (2017)

Vacant Lots Create Cleaner Water (2017)

Where We Live: Communities for All Ages: Health chapter (2016)

COVID PANDEMIC (2020)

Winter Placemaking Activities During COVID-19

Helping Commercial Districts Manage and Respond to COVID-19

The 8 Domains of Livability and COVID-19

'Age-Friendly' Responses to COVID-19

Age-Friendly Berkeley, California, Responds to COVID-19

Age-Friendly Los Angeles City/County, California, Respond to COVID-19

Age-Friendly Eagle County, Colorado, Responds to COVID-19

Age-Friendly Greenwich, Connecticut, Responds to COVID-19

Age-Friendly DC Responds to COVID-19

Age-Friendly Miami-Dade County, Florida, Responds to COVID-19

Age-Friendly Sarasota County, Florida, Responds to COVID-19

Age-Friendly Bowdoinham, Maine, Responds to COVID-19

Age-Friendly Georgetown, Maine, Responds to COVID-19

Age-Friendly Boston, Massachusetts, Responds to COVID-19

Age-Friendly New Bedford, Massachusetts, Responds to COVID-19

Age-Friendly Montclair, New Jersey, Responds to COVID-19

Age-Friendly Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio, Responds to COVID-19

Age-Friendly Portland and Multnomah County, Oregon, Responds to COVID-19

Age-Friendly Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Respond to COVID-19

Age-Friendly Grayson County, Virginia, Responds to COVID-19

Age-Friendly Seattle and King County, Washington, Respond to COVID-19

INSIGHTS

Get Fit Fontana: 5 Questions for Mayor Acquanetta Warren (2017)

Public Health and the AARP Network of Age-Friendly Communities (2014)

Q&A: Rose Gowen, M.D., City Commissioner, Brownsville, Texas (2014)