Examples of free Older Adult County Profiles now available
What’s an Older Adult County Profile and how can you get one? DOH is offering Older Adult Health County Profiles to local and tribal partners across the state for free. These county-level profiles use valuable Medicare data to build profiles on a range of older adult-related health topics for each of Washington’s counties, including population growth rates, chronic conditions, adverse events, key subpopulations, and ways to use the data. Older Adult Health County Profiles are available by request.
These county profiles are critical tools to help improve the health of older adults in your communities. See examples of county profiles for Spokane and Grays Harbor counties.
The information can be used to:
- Evaluate current programs and strategies to ensure they meet the needs of a growing aging population or determine a place to begin.
- Convene public health and other county partners to assess and develop an action plan that supports the growth of the 60+ population and their health needs.
- Incorporate the data into current communication efforts.
- Develop your organization’s application to join the Age-Friendly Public Health Systems (AFPHS) Learning and Action Network (learning community) and apply for funding (LHJ application and tribal health organization application) to expand the role of public and tribal health in addressing the health and wellbeing of older adults.
The Older Adult Health County Profiles are part of an Age-Friendly Public Health Systems-State Expansion Opportunity, funded by Trust for America’s Health and The John A. Hartford Foundation.
To request a health profile for a county (or counties) of interest, email DOH’s Healthy Aging Initiatives Director Marci Getz.