Healthy Aging Resource List

Demographics on Aging in New Mexico

• New Mexico Grandfacts – State Fact Sheets for Grandfamilies
• EngAGE New Mexico
• Aging Facts in New Mexico
• AARP New Mexico State Fact Sheet
• Kaiser State Health Facts
• A Statistical Profile of American Indian & Native Alaskan Elderly
• America’s Health Rankings Senior Report
• A State-by-State Snapshot of Poverty Among Seniors: Findings From Analysis of the Supplemental Poverty Measure

 Top Issues Facing Elders in New Mexico

• Care Giving
  • Caregiver Support Group Help
  • Family Caregiver Alliance – NM Family Care Navigator
  • Multigenerational Households
  • Family Caregivers Online
  • National Family Caregivers Association
  • Family Caregiver Alliance
  • National Alliance for Caregiving
  • The 2011 MetLife Market Survey of Nursing Home, Assisted Living, Adult Day Services, and Home Care Costs
• Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
  • Grandparents Raising Grandchildren in New Mexico: Understanding the Trend & Stemming the Tide
  • Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Program – Espanola, NM
  • Grandparent Support – ABQ, NM
  • Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Program – Las Cruces, NM
  • Grandfamilies
  • GrandFacts: State Fact Sheets for Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children
  • The Return of the Multi-Generational Family Household
  • New Mexico Fact Sheet for Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children
• Advocacy and Legal Issues
  • Senior Citizens’s Law Office – serving Bernalillo, Sandoval, Torrance, and Valencia counties
  • American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging
• Food Security
  • Dreaming New Mexico: Food Security – Good Food, Enough Food
  • Senior Hunger in the United States: Differences Across States and Rural and Urban Areas
• Economic Security
  • The New Mexico Elder Economic Security Initiative
  • Aging in Place with Dignity: Policy Recommendations to Increase Economic Security for New Mexico Elders
  • The Elder Economic Security Standard Index for New Mexico
  • Elders Living on the Edge, When Basic Needs Exceed Income in New Mexico
• Health Care
  • Senior Citizens’s Law Office
    • Flyers and Fact Sheets
    • Public Benefits
  • Fixing Health Care in New Mexico: An AARP Survey of New Mexico Residents Age 50+
• Transportation
  • Measuring Transportation Investments: New Mexico
  • The Beverly Foundation Resource Library
  • The Elder Economic Security Standard Index for New Mexico
  • New Mexico State Plan for Aging & Long-Term Services Department
  • Aging & Long-Term Services Department Strategic Plan: State Fiscal Year 2015
• Workforce Development
  • What Older Workers Want: A Survey of AARP Members in New Mexico
  • Looking Toward an Older Workforce: A Focus on New Mexico Employers

 General Resources:

 Reports

• The Resounding Resiliency of Grandfamilies: Financial Stories from Older Relatives Care for Children in Lower-Income Communities
• Aging & Long-Term Services Department Strategic Plan
• Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds a publication of the National Intelligence Council
• New Mexico State Plan for Aging & Long-Term Services Department
• New Mexico Aging & Long-Term Services Department Issue Paper Alzheimer’s Disease
• New Mexico Aging & Long-Term Services Department Ombudsman Program
• On the Verge: The Transformation of Long-Term Services and Supports
• Weathering the Storm: The Impact of the Great Recession on Long-Term Services and Supports in New Mexico

Local/State Agencies, Programs, and Organizations

• New Mexico Aging & Long-Term Services
• Partners in Lifelong Independence and Healthy Aging
• New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department
• New Mexico Adult Protective Services Division
• New Mexico Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program
• New Mexico Elder Economic Security Initiative
• National Indian Council on Aging
• Albuquerque Department of Senior Affairs
• Non-Metro Area Agency of Aging
• The Conscious Aging Network of New Mexico
• Elders Getting Information & Services
• New Mexico Social Service Directory
• New Mexico Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs)
• The New Mexico Aging and Disability Resource Center
• New Mexico Senior Olympics
• New Mexico Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association
• New Mexico Cooperative Extension Service

National Agencies and Organizations

• Grantmakers in Aging Resource Center and Toolkit
• Administration on Aging
• Center for Healthy Aging
• National Hispanic Council on Aging
• Generations United