Aging King County

Aging King County

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www.agingkingcounty.org
Aging and Disability Services: The Area Agency on Aging for Seattle King County. Visit us at www.agingkingcounty.org.
Aging King County
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Advocacy
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Advocacy / Aging and Disability Services Advisory Council members advocate on behalf of older adults, family caregivers and people with disabilities for local, state and national programs that promote quality of life for these populations.
Age-Friendly Communities
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Age-Friendly Communities
AgeWise King County
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AgeWise King County / AgeWise King County is an e-newsletter published by the Seattle-King County Advisory Council on Aging & Disability Services. For a free subscription (a monthly e-mail with links to the new issue), visit www.agingkingcounty.org/subscribe.htm
Brain Health
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Brain Health
Financial Empowerment
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Financial Empowerment / Access benefits, get training, find employment, and explore how to use your assets wisely.
Food & Nutrition
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Food & Nutrition
End of Life
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End of Life
Care Transitions
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Care Transitions / Better coordination of patient transfers among care sites and within the community can improve health care quality, reduce unnecessary readmissions, and save money.
Caregiving
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Caregiving / Are you a caregiver? If you help care for an adult family member or friend, you are not alone. Support is available through the King County Caregiver Support Network (www.kccaregiver.org) as well as resources pinned here.
Aging & the Arts
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Aging & the Arts / "Community-based cultural programs for older adults appear to be reducing risk factors that drive the need for long-term care," said Dr. Gene Cohen, author of “Creativity and Aging Study: The Impact of Professionally Conducted Cultural Programs on Older Adults”, a groundbreaking national longitudinal study. Learn more at http://cahh.gwu.edu/arts-aging-study.
Disabilities
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Disabilities
Falls Prevention
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Falls Prevention / Falls are a significant hazard to our health. One-third of Americans aged 65+ fall each year. Every 15 seconds, an older adult is treated in the emergency room for a fall. Every 29 minutes, an older adult dies following a fall. Many falls are preventable. Following are excellent resources for reducing falls.
Healthy Aging
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Healthy Aging
Communications
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Communications / Communications and marketing to or about older adults and individuals with disabilities
Hearing Loss
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Hearing Loss
Infographics
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Infographics
Lifelong Learning
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Lifelong Learning / As Albert Einstein said, "Once you stop learning, you start dying." Along with nutrition, exercise, and social connections, lifelong learning is fundamental to healthy aging. (Also see our board on arts and health aging at https://www.pinterest.com/agingkingcounty/aging-the-arts/ .)
Men and Aging
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Men and Aging
Movies
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Movies / Movies about aging, movies that celebrate aging, movies that offer inspiration for healthy aging and/or movies that feature an older star
Older Americans Month
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Older Americans Month / Older Americans Month is an annual event dating back to 1963, when President John F. Kennedy designated May as Senior Citizens Month. It was later renamed Older Americans Month, honoring older Americans and celebrating their contributions to our communities and our nation.
Oral Health
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Oral Health / Sometimes called "a window into your overall health," the importance of oral health cannot be ignored at any age. This board displays some of the resources available to older adults--online and in Seattle-King County.
Ideas We Love
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Ideas We Love
Puzzles and Wordfinds
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Puzzles and Wordfinds / Just for fun!
Seattle & King County
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Seattle & King County
Social Media & Older Adults
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Social Media & Older Adults / Who says older adults aren't using social media?!
Universal Design
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Universal Design / Universal Design (UD) considers all aspects of the built environment—homes, mobility routes, landscapes, commercial developments, products and life space, including equipment and architecture—with the goal of making them accessible to every person, regardless of age or ability. For more information, visit the Northwest Universal Design Council at www.environmentsforall.org.
Veterans
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Veterans / Aging and Disability Services—the Area Agency on Aging for Seattle-King County—offers PEARLS (Program to Encourage Active Rewarding Lives) for Veterans and a webpage with a variety of links to local programs and services at www.agingkingcounty.org//veterans. We collect links to interesting stories about and services for older veterans on this Pinterest page.
Volunteer Opportunities
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Volunteer Opportunities
Washington State
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Washington State
Workplace Wellness
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Workplace Wellness / Because most adults spend more of their waking hours at work than anywhere else!
Senior Housing
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Senior Housing / Whether you are a senior looking to downsize, or a family looking for assistance in taking care of a beloved parent or grandparent, you have a variety of options. For specific assistance, contact Senior Information & Assistance (Seattle/King County 1-888-4ELDERS). See also our Universal Design board at www.pinterest.com/agingkingcounty/universal-design/.
Women and Aging
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Women and Aging
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Environmental Works Community Design Center and SMR Architects, both leaders in designing multifamily housing, will team up to present on the opportunities and challenges of designing for special populations. The presentation will look at a variety of housing types such as homeless supportive housing, homeless shelters, housing for veterans, housing for people with traumatic brain injury, and more! [Follow the link to learn more.]

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Environmental Works Community Design Center and SMR Architects, both leaders in designing multifamily housing, will team up to present on the opportunities and challenges of designing for special populations. The presentation will look at a variety of housing types such as homeless supportive housing, homeless shelters, housing for veterans, housing for people with traumatic brain injury, and more! [Follow the link to learn more.]

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