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Creativity Matters: The Arts and Aging Toolkit, a resource guide by The National Center for Creative Aging (NCCA), offers strategies for enhancing health in older adults through the arts. Posted: 7/15/08
Retooling for an Aging America-Building the Health Care Workforce: The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Posted: 7/02/08
Generations Journal--Available Free Online Posted: 7/02/08
Healthy Eating & Physical Activity: Addressing Inequities in Urban Environment Posted: 6/24/08
CDC has developed tips and suggestions for older adults, their caregivers, health care providers, and communities to help prevent falls. Posted: 6/24/08
A New Tool for Epidemiology: The Usefulness of Dynamic-Agent Models in Understanding Place Effects on Health Posted: 6/23/08
Walkable Communities Podcast: Discusses benefits of walkable communities, as they relate to health, the environment, and social interaction. (Created: 4/18/2008 by NCEH/ATSDR) Posted: 6/23/08
CDC Developed a New Publication on Community-Based Physical Activity Programs
Updated Physical Acti vity Guidelines Released
EPA issues request for applications for the Smart Growth Implementation Assistance
Building on Best Practices: Consensus Report on Physical Activity Programming
Good Health Counts: A 21st Century Approach to Health & Community for California
Neighborhood Design and Aging: An Empirical Analysis in Northern California
The US EPA Aging Initiative has released a fact sheet on Women and Environmental Health
New Resource: A Residents Guide for Creating Safe and Walkable Communities
Getting to Smart Growth II: 100 More Policies for Implementation
New Modules from the Learning Network and NCOA's Center for Healthy Aging
How Fit Are You? New Test Tells

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News: "Gray and Green Together: Older Adults Can Play Role in Creating Healthier Environment" Jul 23, 2008; "Exercise could be the heart's fountain of youth" Jul 23, 2008; Study finds risk of elderly disability drastically reduced through regular walking Jul 16, 2008; Children's Physical Activity Drops From Age 9 to 15, NIH Study Indicates Jul 15, 2008; Call for big-picture thinking to curb obesity Jul 10, 2008; More news…

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