Community connectedness, empathetic collaboration, and meaningful participation can powerfully inform science, public health, & policy. Veteran. Scholar. Mom.
"Utilizing, supporting, and funding team science, implementation science, community action research, and translational health science are ways we can invest in this change." - @Em_Balog#TillmanHonors
"Without an aging-friendly society, we perpetuate a cycle of agism that prevents communities, older adults, and all people from achieving their fullest possibility." - @Em_Balog#TillmanHonors
"How we think & speak about older adults impacts the creation of policies & services that support aging in place. Engaging older adults to participate in policy development is critical. Its the needed ingredient for prevention of institutionalization." - @Em_Balog#TillmanHonors
"By the year 2035 older adults are projected to out-age children for the first time...according to the CDC, older adults are more likely to have at least one chronic condition." - @Em_Balog#tillmanscholar
"The way we think and speak about older adults impacts the views on aging-in-place...engaging older adults to participate in policy development is critical and needed." - @Em_Balog#tillmanscholar
@Acyn He’s a psychologist. I’d like to hear him talking about the implications of isolation on mental health and offering *strategies* for mitigating those dangers in the wake of a pandemic. He could be using his platform to innovate here rather than argue against epidemiology.