Livability Library: Community Health and Wellness

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: Examples from Alabama, California, Indiana, North Dakota, Ohio and Tennessee (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-19 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

 

HEALTH LEADERS

• 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)