Events

The Columbia Aging Center (aging.columbia.edu) presents a talk by Dr. Terry Fulmer, President of The John A. Hartford Foundation. Trust for America’s Health, funded by The John A. Hartford Foundation, held a convening called A Public Health Framework to Support the Improvement of the Health and Well-being of Older Adults, in Tampa, Florida on October 27, 2017. The convening resulted in a preliminary Framework for an Age-Friendly Public Health System, the topic of this seminar that outlines the functions that public health could fulfill, in collaboration with aging services, to address the challenges and opportunities of an aging society. The main takeaway from the convening was the need for an age-friendly public health system that recognizes aging as a core public health issue.