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April 23 - NCOA Announces Grants for Expanding Self-Management Program

The National Council on Aging (NCOA) is making grants available to eight states to improve access among older adults to the Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP). California, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, and Wisconsin will receive Sustainable Systems Grants to design and establish systems that lead to statewide access to the best-known, evidence-based
self-management program for people with chronic conditions. The goal of the CDSMP is to offer older Americans, who have more chronic conditions than younger persons, an opportunity to take control of their health through behavior changes that have been proven effective in reducing the effects of disease and disability.

"There is a large body of scientific evidence that low-cost self-care programs are an effective way to reduce the risk of disease, disability, and injury among seniors," says NCOA Senior Vice
President Nancy Whitelaw. "These states have demonstrated that they can replicate successful programs and have a strong capacity and commitment to this work and are ready to work with us to design and establish permanent systems for statewide access to the CDSMP and other evidence-based
prevention programs."

According to Whitelaw, the NCOA and its partners believe that the overall goal of fostering widespread, nationwide access to the CDSMP and other evidence-based prevention programs will be advanced by
supporting these eight states in moving faster and more systematically toward sustained statewide programming, with an emphasis on reaching diverse and vulnerable populations. Strategies and tools that prove successful among these states will be shared so older adults across the nation can benefit from these programs. These grants are part of a major evidence-based prevention initiative supported by the Administration on Aging and its federal partners, 27 states, and more recently, The Atlantic Philanthropies.

Source: National Council on Aging

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