What Is Healthy Aging?

It’s taking charge of your well-being as you grow older

Healthy aging is a process of taking charge of your well-being as you grow older. “You’ll reduce the risk for disease and related disabilities, function well physically and mentally, and be actively engaged in life,” says Francis Salerno, M.D., chief of geriatrics at Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network. The Center for Healthy Aging can help, with its one-stop-shopping approach to care for older adults. "Aging is a process, not a disease," says Salerno.

The Center for Healthy Aging is here to help you connect with your community.

There’s a wide variety of community connections at the Center for Healthy Aging. Programs are offered by AARP, Area Agencies on Aging, Lehigh Valley Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) and others.

But the services located inside the facility are only part of how we meet the needs of older adults and their families.

“We see the Center for Healthy Aging playing an important role in linking everyone in our community—families, volunteers, physicians and extended-care facilities,” says Francis Salerno, M.D.

Through the center, you and your family have easy access to physicians throughout the community who can meet your physical, psychological and social needs, says Salerno, “The Center for Healthy Aging addresses every aspect of preventive care as a community-wide initiative,” he says.

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