GeriTeach
Health Promotion and Older Adults

GeriTeach

Health Promotion Programs for Older Adults
- an M.S.N. project thesis

Making Your Medications Work for You!
- a PowerPoint presentation

  Education and Older Adults
Educational programs for older people can help to achieve behavioral, physiological, and psychological goals which in turn may lead to:
      - improved quality of life
      - greater functional ability
      - lower utilization of health care services
To support behavioral change, health education and promotion must be integrated into community life.

Education Strategies
For health-related programs to meet the goal of behavioral change they must contain these three components:
      - Participants being actively involved
      - Peer interaction
      - Participant selected objectives
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Last updated February 27, 1999.
Copyright Norine Watson, 1999.