Blueprint Partners Progress Newsletter: November 2005

In This Issue

Special Offer on Purchasing First Step to Active Health Kits
AARP Report: Blueprint for the Future
RWJF Report: Lessons Learned About Local Physical Activity Programs
NCOA Falls Prevention E-Newsletter
CDC Toolkit on Falls Prevention
Outcomes of ICAA Strategy Session
New Website Devoted to Women and Heart Disease

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Special Offer on Purchasing First Step to Active Health Kits
Several Blueprint partners have asked about purchasing bulk quantities of the First Step to Active Health Kits. The Hygenic Corporation, a National Blueprint partner that manufactures the Thera-Band First Step to Active Health Kit, is providing a special offer to Blueprint partners on pricing for individual kits. For partners wishing to purchase quantities between 500 and 1,000, the price is $4.50. For quantities over 1,000, the price is $4.25 per kit. The kits retail for $9.95 each. If you are interested, please e-mail Mark Anderson at manderson@thera-band.com for a quote and mention this e-mail. This price will be valid through the end of the year.

AARP Report: Blueprint for the Future
Reimaging America: AARP’s Blueprint for the Future addresses the challenges of the aging of America and offers a realistic framework for overcoming problems. The report maintains the problem of an aging society is overstated, and identifies positive trends. Solutions to meeting the challenges include spending health dollars wisely, promoting better preventive care, and investing in livable communities.
www.aarp.org

RWJF Report: Lessons Learned About Local Physical Activity Programs
Lessons Learned: Promoting Physical Activity at the Community Level is a special report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that examines 25 projects promoting walking, biking, and other activities, and offers 12 outcomes. The report identifies best practices and areas for improvement.
www.rwjf.org/newsroom/

NCOA Falls Prevention E-Newsletter
The National Council on the Aging Healthy Aging Center has developed a new bi-monthly e-newsletter related to falls prevention information. The Falls Free™ E-Newsletter contains project updates, tools, and studies related to the topic. To subscribe to the newsletter, visit this site:
NCOA

CDC Toolkit on Falls Prevention
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Toolkit to Prevent Senior Falls contains brochures, graphs, and fact sheets.
www.cdc.gov

Outcomes of ICAA Strategy Session
In October, the International Council on Active Aging held a strategy session, Motivation and Reward Systems that Encourage Activity, to prepare for the White House Conference on Aging (WHCoA). Nearly 50 experts participating in the session identified 32 practical strategies that were submitted to the WHCoA policy committee. Outcomes of the meeting are available at:
icaa.cc

New Website Devoted to Women and Heart Disease
Health care professionals and the public can find information on the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease in women on a new website, HeartHealthy Women.
www.hearthealthywomen.org

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The Blueprint Partners Project is an initiative of the Active Aging Partnership. For more information, contact the Blueprint Partnership Office at the University of Illinois Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, 350 Freer Hall, 906 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801. E-Mail: blueprint@kines.uiuc.edu
Phone: (217) 244-7122
Web site: www.agingblueprint.org