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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.
How the Eisner Foundation is Tackling Loneliness
The idea for an intergenerational orchestra in L.A. first came about in 2013, when Stamp, along with Michael and Jane Eisner, heard the New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra, one of five finalists for the foundation’s Eisner Prize for Intergenerational Excellence.
Innovation and Hope: Building Momentum to Address Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Series
Innovation and Hope is a four-part webinar series and partnership between Grantmakers In Aging and the Helen Daniels Bader Alzheimer's & Healthy Aging Speaker Series
Alzheimer's and Other Dementias
One in three older Americans dies with dementia, which is an umbrella term for a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with activities of daily living. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause, accounting for an estimated 60-80% of all cases of dementia. Foundations and other funders have joined federal and local governments in supporting research and implementation of many different types of dementia-related services.
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.