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Tara C. Healy, PhD¹, Nancy L. Wilson, MSW², Mary Gallant, PhD, MPH³, Laura Gitlin, PhD⁴, Nancy Chernett, MPH⁴, and Richard Fortinsky, PhD⁵. (1) School of Social Work, University of Southern Maine, P.O.Box 9300, Portland, ME 04104-9300, 207-780-4493, thealy@usm.maine.edu, (2) Huffington Center on Agin, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza M-320, Houston, TX 77030-3498, (3) Department of Health Policy, Management, & Behavior, University at Albany School of Public Health, One University Place 185, Rensselaer, NY 12144-3456, (4) Center for Applied Research on Aging and Health, Thomas Jefferson University, 130 S. 9th Street Suite 500, Philadelphia, PA 19103, (5) Center on Aging, University of Connecticut Health Center, 263 Farmington Ave., Farmington, CT 06030-5215

SESSION ABSTRACT. This symposium will feature four projects funded by the U.S. Administration on Aging (AoA) that share the goal of implementing and evaluating disease or injury prevention programs for older adults in community settings based on models found to be efficacious in randomized clinical trials (RCTs) as part of a larger effort to build a public/private partnership focused on increasing older Americans' access to effective health promotion programs at the community level. Each project presented at this symposium involves a partnership that includes aging services providers, area agencies on aging, health care providers and university based researchers. Each partner brings a unique perspective to the translation of evidence-based health promotion programming for community-dwelling older adults. Projects selected for this symposium are implementing translations of evidence-based programs that address disease self-management and fall prevention. The four AoA-funded projects are located in Philadelphia, PA, Houston, TX, and Albany, NY and Portland, ME. Symposium presenters are responsible for evaluating the effectiveness of the adapted programs. They will provide a description of how each respective partnership worked to maintain fidelity to the tested intervention while enacting necessary adaptations for establishing a sustainable community-based model. Findings will be presented concerning the achievement of outcomes comparable to the original RCTs. Each presenter will have 18 minutes to present her paper and our discussant, Richard Fortinsky, Ph.D., will have 15 minutes to respond to the papers presented.

Learning Objectives:

• 1. Participants will describe how partnerships from social service, medical and university settings can work together to translate evidence-based health promotion models (found to be efficacious in randomized clinical trials) into community settings.
• 2. Participants will be able to define treatment fidelity and articulate the importance of ensuring fidelity to both the tested intervention and research in the translation of evidence-based health promotion models into community settings.
• 3. Participants will develop strategies for maintaining and measuring fidelity to both the tested intervention and research in the translation evidence-based health promotion programs for dissemination in community settings.

Keywords: Health Promotion,

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No