Evidence-Based Programs

Healthy Choices New York

Quality and Technical Assistance Center (QTAC)

Through its Quality and Technical Assistance Center (QTAC), the Center for Excellence in Aging & Community Wellness seeks to facilitate and establish both initial and ongoing capacity for localities throughout the state and nation to deliver sustainable evidence-based models of health promotion and disease prevention. E-mail the QTAC or call 518-442-5530 for more information.

Programs supported by the Center for Excellence in Aging & Community Wellness include:

  • Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP), a six-week workshop series that empowers older adults and their caregivers to take charge of chronic conditions such as arthritis, heart disease, etc.  The program was developed by the Patient Education Research Center at Stanford University.
  • Diabetes Self-Management Program (DSMP), similar to the CDSMP but focused on the management of Diabetes. Also developed by the Patient Education Research Center at Stanford University.
  • A Matter of Balance: Managing Concerns About Falls (AMOB), an eight-session program designed to reduce the fear of falling and increase activities levels of older adults who are fearful of falling.  This program was developed by the Roybal Center at Boston University and successfully translated for community settings through the Maine Partnership for Health Aging.
  • Active Generations, an eight-week afterschool program sponsored by OASIS that pairs teams of adults age 50 and older with children in grades 3 to 5.  Volunteers engage children in vigorous physical and nutritional learning activities.
  • Active Choices, a six-month evidence-based program developed by the Stanford Prevention Research Center that has been proven effective in helping older adults meet their physical activity needs.  Each participant is assigned to a trained activity coach who helps him/her build an individualized, sustainable exercise plan through telephone coaching.
  • Active Living Every Day (ALED), a 20-session course emphasizing moderate-intensity activity, fitting activity into everyday life, and personalizing activity regimens.  The program was developed by the Cooper Institute in partnership with Human Kinetics Publishers.
  • Healthy Eating Every Day (HEED), a 20-session program that focuses on improving total diet quality through building cognitive and behavioral skills for making healthy food choices.  The program was developed by the Cooper Institute in partnership with Human Kinetics Publishers.
  • Arthritis Foundation Exercise Program (AFEP), an eight-week program developed by the Arthritis Foundation to promote self-management of arthritis through exercise.

For information relating to these evidence-based programs, please contact The Center for Excellence in Aging & Community Wellness by email at ceacw@albany.edu or by phone at 518-442-3360.