4137.0: Tuesday, November 18, 2003: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| This symposium will discuss the concepts and methods of achieving sustainability and diffusion of innovative community based programs. Speakers include: Thomas Prohaska: Research to practice: Theory and issues in dissemination and maintenance of innovations in program services to seniors Connie Evashwick: Organizational characteristics of successful innovative programs sustained over time Marcia Ory: Active for Life: Building sustainability into community-based activity programs for older adults Nancy Whitelaw: A Framework for Translating Research Evidence into Sustainable Community-based Health Programs One of the greatest challenges in designing programs to improve the health of older adults is to ensure that efficacious programs are sustainable and can be diffused widely. This symposium will address theoretical, programmatic and policy issues in fostering sustainability and diffusion of innovative community-based programs. Prohaska will review theoretical constructs and basic issues useful for maintenance of program innovations in real world settings. The three following presentations will give examples of factors involved in successful sustainability and diffusion of innovative programs. Evashwick will identify the characteristics of award winning organizations that implemented innovative health programs for seniors and sustained these programs over time. Ory will describe a process for assessing potential sustainability before funding community-based programs designed to increase activity levels. Whitelaw will address how community practitioners need to come together with researchers to review evidence and design feasible and sustainable programs. After individual presentations, the panelists will engage the audience in a general discussion of the challenges and solutions to fostering program sustainability and diffusion. | |||
| Learning Objectives: As a results of attending this session, participants will be able to: • Identify factors associated with success in community-based programs being sustained over time • Apply lessons learned to their own programs • Analyze and differentiate concepts of sustainability and diffusion | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Research to practice; Theory and issues in dissemination and maintenance of innovative program services to seniors Thomas Prohaska, PhD | |||
| Organizational characteristics of successful innovative programs sustained over time Connie J. Evashwick, ScD, Marcia Ory, PhD | |||
| Active for Life: Building sustainability into community-based activity programs for older adults Marcia Ory, PhD, MPH, Diane Dowdy, PhD, CHES, Brigid Sanner, Robin Mockenhaupt, PhD | |||
| A Framework for Translating Research Evidence into Sustainable Community-based Health Programs Nancy Whitelaw, PhD | |||
| Withdrawn -- Enhancing sustainability and dissemination of innovative community programs for older adults: Research, programmatic, and policy perspectives Marcia Ory, PhD, Thomas R. Prohaska, PhD, Connie J. Evashwick, ScD, FACHE, Nancy Whitelaw, PhD | |||
| Organized by: | Gerontological Health | ||
| Endorsed by: | American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus; Medical Care; Public Health Education and Health Promotion | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy | ||