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May includes many national health observances including Older Americans Month, National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, and Mental Health Awareness Month.<\/p>\nMay includes many national health observances including Older Americans Month, National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, and Mental Health Awareness Month.<\/p>\n
Though Older Americans Month isn\u2019t strictly a health observance, it does provide an opportunity to re-examine how we view aging and celebrate the lives and contributions of the older adults in our lives and communities.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s theme is Aging Unbound<\/em>. Your library or organization can highlight health information relevant to older adults to support their health physically, mentally, and cognitively.<\/p>\n Visit the ACL (Administration for Community Living) website<\/a> for materials and activity ideas to help you celebrate Older Americans Month. You can find sample content for social media and your newsletter along with logos, posters, and other graphics.<\/p>\n The National Institute on Aging<\/a> is an excellent resource. It too includes information on physical<\/a> and cognitive health<\/a> with some information available in Spanish. You can also order free print publications<\/a>.<\/p>\n On May 15 at 6:00 a.m. SST, 7:00 a.m. HST, 9:00 a.m. AKDT, 10:00 a.m. PDT, and May 16 at 3:00 a.m. ChST is a Q&A event on women\u2019s health and aging<\/a>. Visit the NIA website for information to join this live event.<\/p>\n MedlinePlus has a list of health topics for older adults<\/a> that include both exercise<\/a> and mental health<\/a>. Some information is available in Spanish and additional languages.<\/p>\n The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) provides a mental health awareness toolkit<\/a> along with a sidebar with links specific to older adult information.<\/p>\n Celebrate National Physical Fitness and Sports Month with older adults. The Office on Disease Prevention and Health Promotion is encouraging everyone to get active using their Move Your Way\u00ae resources<\/a> and interactive Move Your Way Activity Planner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May includes many national health observances including Older Americans Month, National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, and Mental Health Awareness Month. Though Older Americans Month isn\u2019t strictly a health observance, it does provide an opportunity to re-examine how we view aging and celebrate the lives and contributions of the older adults in our lives and… Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316,457,9,10,355],"tags":[332,119,254,234,179,398,93],"class_list":["post-20691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-health","category-consumer-health-minute","category-health-literacy","category-health-observances","category-mental-health","tag-community-organizations","tag-consumer-health","tag-health-information","tag-libraries","tag-national-health-observances","tag-older-adults","tag-outreach"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20691"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20705,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20691\/revisions\/20705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}