Steps Program Assisting Aging Parents
Promoting the healthy lifestyles of older people is vital in helping them to maintain health and functional independence and lead healthy and independent lives.
Many Americans fail to make the connection between undertaking healthy behaviors today and the impact of these choices later in life. Studies by the National Institute of Aging indicate that healthy eating, physical activity, mental stimulation, not smoking, active social engagement, moderate use of alcohol, maintaining a safe environment, social support, and regular health care are important in maintaining health and independence.
Health risk assessments and screenings, nutrition screening and educational services, physical fitness, health promotion programs on chronic disabling conditions, home injury control services, counseling regarding social services, and follow-up health services play an important role for the elderly to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
The goal of the Steps Program is to help Americans live longer and healthier lives. CDC provides grants to Steps communities to implement chronic disease prevention and health promotion activities to address obesity, diabetes, and asthma, as well as their related risk behaviors: physical inactivity, poor nutrition, and tobacco use.
The Steps communities:
- Accelerate change at the local level by creating a groundswell of activity in local communities to support healthier lifestyles and prevent chronic diseases.
- Reach beyond public health and bring together a wide range of disciplines, such as business, transportation, and city planning, to help improve the health of communities.
- Implement public health interventions that are evidence-based and have been successful in changing people’s behaviors.
Steps communities form partnerships with traditional and non-traditional partners to extend the reach of their programs and to accelerate progress toward health outcomes. In addition, activities are integrated across the public and private sectors.
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