CDCs Healthy Aging Program Caregiving Activities Lynda Anderson, PhD Director, Healthy Aging Program

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CDCs Healthy Aging ProgramCaregiving Activities
Lynda Anderson, PhDDirector, Healthy Aging
Program

• Gerontological Society of America
• November 21, 2008

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Spotlighting the Health and Well-being of
Caregivers Critical Issue Briefs

• The series contains topical information and
  potential story ideas for journalists
• New for 2009
• Highlighting caregiving in the United States
• Emphasizing issues of importance for American
  Indian and Alaska Native caregivers in
  collaboration with the Indian Health Service

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Monitoring the Health and Well-being of
Caregivers

• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
  (BRFSS)
• Largest continuously conducted telephone health
  survey in the world
• Conducted by health departments in all states,
  the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin
  Islands, and Guam
• Caregiving Optional module
• Collaboration the National Center for Birth
  Defects and Developmental Disability and Healthy
  Aging Program
• 2009 BRFSS
• Emerging core
• Optional module (9 additional questions)

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Moving Research into Practice

• Framework for moving effective interventions into
  widespread practice
• Released at the 2008 Aging in America Conference
• Currently developing a new action guide

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• CDCs Caregiving Efforts
• Lisa McGuire, PhD
• Healthy Aging Program
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• LMcGuire_at_cdc.gov
• To obtain additional copies
• Visit our website
• www.cdc.gov/aging