The American Health Association is here to help you prevent premature aging via its programs. J. Robert Gordon is the founder and executive director of the American Health Foundation. Rob gladly welcomes and includes the gay and lesbian community in his foundation programs. While you can't stop aging, you can slow-down the chromosomal DNA markers that to some extent are the predictors and dictators of aging. You can either age positively or negatively, depending on how you either proact or react to your internal aging phenomena. At the Foundation, we believe in a preventative and preparative approach. We help you take charge of your health and teach you about the variables that create aging. A modicum of health and disease prevention are all within the realm of possibilities if we make the right choices.

American Heart Association Description of Services

The focus of the Foundation is help you make the right choices instead of passively allowing a plethora of unintended consequences, like obesity, diabetes, stress, strokes, heart attacks, and premature death. The projects at the American Health Foundation work together to create a philosophy of choice: aging with purpose, aging with passion, and aging with productivity in partnership with your community.

Core Values American Heart Association

The employees closely align with the organization's core values.

The association's core values and guiding principles are:

Equitable healthcare

Meeting patients where they are

Building community partnerships

Accessibility in healthcare

Improving and extending patient lives

BACKGROUND The American Health Foundation was created in 2002 by J. Robert Gordon, and its activities have been expanding ever since. The American Health Foundation consists of many intertwining projects designed to help older Americans live healthier, happier, more productive lives, including: American Volunteer Corps Adult Lifelong Learning Foundation Center for Healthy Aging Mental Health Foundation Center for Healthcare Management.