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GIA StaffThe Case for Age-Friendly Communities
Explore the economic, social, and personal benefits of making a community more age-friendly.
Community Agenda: Talking About Age-Friendly Communities
Learn how to create more effective messages or talking points, develop printed materials, and frame public communications campaigns.
Age-Friendly Communities: A Blueprint for Success
View ways to make your community more age-friendly with this infographic.
Age-Friendly Communities: The Movement to Create Great Places to Grow Up and Grow Old in America
Explore new, transformative ways of thinking about aging and community development.
Impact Investing An Introduction for Funders
This guide is intended to give GIA members and other funders an understanding of impact investing — specifically within the philanthropic context — by defining key terms and sharing examples of how it is already being used.
Guiding Principles for the Sustainability of Age-Friendly Community Efforts
Through key informant interviews, focus groups, and a two-day leadership summit GIA distilled best practices in sustainable age-friendly communities work that resulted in the framework presented in this document.
Apply for the 2024 John Feather Equity in Aging Philanthropy Award
The John Feather Equity in Aging Philanthropy Award honors funders working to create a more equitable philanthropic sector through their operations, programs, investments, and grantmaking. Apply today!
Moving Ahead Together: A Framework for Integrating HIV/AIDS and Aging Services
Part of Grantmakers In Aging’s Moving Ahead Together initiative, supported by Gilead Sciences, this document offers a detailed framework of recommendations for strengthening the integration of HIV and aging care and services through increased understanding, more customized programs, closer cross-sector connection, and stronger policymaking. Three main sections. Focus Area #1: Complexities and Challenges, explores the broader social context, including stigma. Focus Area #2: Integrating and Improving Care and Services, emphasizes the need for whole-person care and examines medical care, mental and behavioral health care, and social and psychosocial support. Focus Area #3: The Way Forward, looks at policy and how to update it to reflect the graying of HIV.
Aging Positively: Bringing HIV/AIDS into the Aging Services Mainstream: An Introduction for Funders
Our 2019 funding guide, Aging Positively: Bringing HIV/AIDS into the Aging Services Mainstream: An Introduction for Funders, highlights the diverse experiences of older people living with HIV/AIDS and offers actionable ideas for philanthropies of all kinds to improve care and quality of life.
Honoring the Denver Principles and MIPA (Meaningful Involvement of People with HIV/AIDS), GIA also recorded a series of interviews with older people living with HIV/AIDS and produced the following videos reflecting on their lived experience.
Blind Spot: Mobility and Aging in Rural America
This report examines the mobility challenges that confront older people in rural communities across America and profiles some of the programs that exist to support them.
Heartache, Pain, and Hope: Rural Communities, Older People and the Opioid Crisis
This guide examines the crisis caused by opioids in rural communities, particularly the impact on the lives of many older individuals, potential solutions, and initiatives that governments, communities and funders are implementing.
The Future of Rural Transportation and Mobility for Older Adults
The Future of Rural Transportation and Mobility for Older Adults is a companion white paper to GIA’s Mobility & Aging in Rural America: The Role for Innovation. The paper examines rural mobility through a lens of technology and across a longer timeframe.
Creating New Connections: How Philanthropy Can Support Better Care for People with Complex Health and Social Needs
This report summarizes key issues relevant to understanding complex care and offers resources and case studies for funders interested in entering the field or deepening their existing work. It also profiles funding opportunities, explores existing models, and shares philanthropic lessons learned.
Guide to Telling a More Complete Story of Aging
Communication Best Practices: Reframing Aging Initiative Guide to Telling a More Complete Story of Aging offers valuable recommendations and research-based rationales when crafting presentations, press releases, academic papers, letters to the editor, websites, publications, consumer materials, speeches, and other communications.
Prevent and Reduce Social Isolation
Social isolation is an epidemic in the United States, affecting two-thirds of older adults and three-quarters of young people (as reported during COVID). Social isolation is linked to depression, poor sleep, and impaired immunity. It increases the risks of dementia by 50 percent, stroke by 32 percent, and coronary heart disease by 29 percent, and significantly increases the risk of premature death from all causes.
GIA's Guide to Impact Investing: A Tool for Accelerating Healthy Aging for All in Livable Communities
This guide takes a deep dive into the topic of impact investing and highlights funders across the GIA network and beyond who are leveraging impact investments to create healthier, more age-integrated communities.