Healthy Aging Data Reports: Measures of Community Health to Identify Disparities and Spur Age-Friendly Progress.

Healthy Aging Data Reports now exist for MA (2014, 2015, 2018), NH (2019), RI (2016, 2020) and CT (2021) and demonstrate differences in health by place. Each report includes community profiles for every city, town, and some urban neighborhoods with more than 170-197 indicators. The reports include maps of the statewide distribution of rates, an infographic, highlights report with state-specific multivariate analyses, and 18 interactive web-maps, 18 regional interactive web-maps, and technical documentation about data sources and methods. Overall, the research has identified variations in healthy aging and provided tools to track change over time to support age-friendly efforts in the region.