NCECE Publications
These free downloadable NCECE publications provide insight into health care for older adults and addressed topics pertinent to caring for health centers’ older adult patients.
Brain Health As We Age: A Practical Guide for Health Centers
Date: July 2026
Brain Health As We Age: A Practical Guide for Health Centers: This publication offers insights on the importance of cognitive health in later life and strategies for helping patients adopt lifestyle behaviors that support independence and promote overall quality of life.
Intimate Partner Violence and Elder Abuse in Later Life: Educational Brief
Date: December 2025
Intimate Partner Violence and Elder Abuse in Later Life: This educational brief explains the importance of developing effective IPV protocols that are specifically tailored to older patients served in health centers.
To Go Far, Go Together: The Importance of Community in Patient Health Management
Date: May 2025
To Go Far, Go Together: The Importance of Community in Patient Health Management: This publication will offer highlights from conversations with community leaders and summarize resources and promising practices for health centers to support the prevention, treatment, and management of chronic conditions among health center patients nationally.
The Impact of Extreme Weather on Older Adult Patients: Considerations for Preparedness
Date: April 2025
The Impact of Extreme Weather on Older Adult Patients: Considerations for Preparedness: This issue brief is intended for health center providers and staff who serve older patients and their caregivers. It explores brief examples of how extreme weather events can impact older adults, as well as ways in which health centers can effectively prepare them for natural disasters.
Oral Health and Chronic Disease Management in Older Adults: Promising Practices from Health Centers
Date: May 2024
Oral Health and Chronic Disease Management in Older Adults: Promising Practices from Health Centers: This publication will describe three chronic diseases that disproportionately affect older adults: diabetes, cognitive disorders, and chronic kidney disease, and their association with oral health.
Partnering with Caregivers to Recognize Signs of Dementia
Date: May 2024
Partnering with Caregivers to Recognize Signs of Dementia: This resource describes how health center providers and staff can engage the informal caregivers of older adults to promote the early identification of cognitive decline that may lead to a dementia diagnosis.
Stepping Toward Prevention
Date: February 2024
Stepping Toward Prevention: This tip sheet is intended to encourage conversations about fall risk and related interventions with older patients.
Building Connections: Guide to Emergency Preparedness for Socially Isolated Older Adults
Date: June 2023
Building Connections: Guide to Emergency Preparedness for Socially Isolated Older Adults: This guide describes how primary care providers can help socially isolated older adults prepare for a weather emergency using a simple visual social mapping tool.
Heat Safety for Older Adults
Date: May 2023
Heat Safety for Older Adults: This tip sheet is intended to give health center staff a starting point to engage older patients in preparing for extreme heat to stay cool and avoid illness.
Family Caregiving at a Glance
Date: April 2023
Family Caregiving at a Glance: This fact sheet is intended to give staff a starting point to better understand the roles of family caregivers and outline actionable steps to improve their well-being.
Exercising as You Age: A Resource for Older Adult Patients
Date: January 2022
This resource is intended for older adult patients.
Exercising as You Age: A Resource for Older Adult Patients: This tip sheet offers ways to learn about what programs may be available in communities or find a safe exercise plan that fits individual needs.
Caring for Yourself While Caring for a Loved One
Date: May 2021
This resource is intended for older adult patients.
Caring for Yourself While Caring for a Loved One Caregiver stress can look like: -A resource for patients: This resource addresses caregiver stress and point to community resources that can help.