In July 2025, NNLM introduced a national class entitled \u201cConnecting Older Adults to Health Information\u201d.\u00a0 This 90-minute webinar covers websites and data sources to help you respond to requests for health information from and about older adults, as well as covering programming ideas to address the health information needs of older adults.<\/p>\n
Older adults currently make up over 17% of the population in the United States and are expected to make up 22% of the population by 2040. With the increasing number of older adults, there is a need for health information and services to meet the needs of older adults. By providing classes like this, we hope to equip libraries, public health professionals, nurses and other health professionals to have the information they need to support older adult health information access.<\/p>\n
Some key resources include:<\/p>\n
Older Adults: MedlinePlus<\/a> -Index of health topic pages related to older adults.<\/p>\n Older Adult Health: MedlinePlus<\/a>-Health topic page provides health information to address a variety of health factors<\/p>\n Health Topics A-Z | National Institute on Aging <\/a>-Health topic pages to help you learn about healthy aging and common health conditions in older adults<\/p>\n Caregiving | National Institute on Aging<\/a>-Resources to support caregivers<\/p>\n Elder Care | Home<\/a> – a public service of the Administration for Community Living for help connecting to services for older adults and their families<\/p>\n Disaster Preparedness information for Older Adults<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Other NNLM Resources to support your work:<\/p>\n You can host a book discussion using resources from the Reading Club such as Aging | NNLM<\/a><\/p>\n or Request the Aging Graphic Medicine Book Club Kit<\/a>\u00a0featuring\u00a0Can\u2019t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?<\/em><\/p>\n Or register to join us for the next \u00a0Connecting Older Adults to Health Information<\/a> class on December 11, 2025.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In July 2025, NNLM introduced a national class entitled \u201cConnecting Older Adults to Health Information\u201d.\u00a0 This 90-minute webinar covers websites and data sources to help you respond to requests for health information from and about older adults, as well as covering programming ideas to address the health information needs of older adults. Older adults currently… Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2975,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,20],"tags":[592,228],"class_list":["post-18810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-weekly-newsletter","tag-older-adults","tag-training"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2975"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18812,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18810\/revisions\/18812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}