Collaborative on Health and the Environment

Healthy Aging and the Environment: A Pocket Guide. A 16-page illustrated guide to environmental factors that influence health across the lifespan, and how you can help make healthier choices and policies for all.

Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging report available to download

The Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging report is available to download by chapter or in its entirety. It is in Adobe PDF format. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to download the report. If you don't have this free software, please download Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Section	Title	Size	Downloads
Front Matter/ Foreword	Front Matter Foreword by Philip Landrigan, MD, MSc	652 KB
Executive Summary	Executive Summary	479 KB	828
Chapter 1	Aging and Health: Challenges and Opportunities	487 KB	723
Chapter 2	The Changing Environment and Disease Patterns	1.20 MB	901
Chapter 3	A Primer on Brain Structure and Function	684 KB	634
Chapter 4	An Arc Across the Lifespan: From the Beginning	416 KB	594
Chapter 5	Classification Controversies in Neurodegenerative Disease	394 KB	726
Chapter 6	Underlying Dimensions of Neurodegenerative Disease	1.42 MB	555
Chapter 7	Environmental Factors in the Development of Dementia: Focus on Alzheimer's Disease and Cognitive Decline	1.57 MB	748
Chapter 8	Environmental Factors in the Development of Parkinson's Disease	1.17 MB	980
Chapter 9	Healthy Aging: The Way Forward	1.94 MB	758
Guidelines	Approaches to Healthy Living	270 KB	820
Entire Report	Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging	8.89 MB	10924

Environmental Drivers of Chronic Disease presentations available to download

The following materials are available to enable you to understand and present to colleagues and other audiences on the key findings of Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging.

Environmental Drivers of Chronic Disease slide presentation with audio guide

The key findings of Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging have been synthesized into a 55-slide PowerPoint presentation complete with references and speaker notes. The approach is from an ecological health perspective, addressing the many factors – in the natural, social and built environments among others – that contribute to health and disease. It covers:

We hope these slides will help health professionals, scientists, educators, advocates and decision makers promote health at the community and policy level.You may also view an audio recorded version of the webinar on Boston University"s Superfund Research Program website. This presentation was recorded by Ted Schettler MD MPH

This 3-part video series addresses how two of the major problems our age, climate change and chronic disease, are being driven by the same key environmental factors and, therefore, can be solved by the same set of solutions.

This video lecture was recorded by Jill Stein MD (prepared and video-taped for the University of Delaware Nursing School). View a video recorded version of the webinar on Boston University’s Superfund Research Program website.

Report, Pocket Guide, Teaching Materials, Resources

Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging report available to download

Environmental Drivers of Chronic Disease presentations available to download