5050.0 Health Promotion and Physical Activity in Older Adults

Wednesday, October 29, 2008: 8:30 AM
Oral
Moderator:
Karen E. Peters, DrPH

8:30 AM
A poll of rural Illinois county health departments regarding the evaluation of Alzheimer disease and the availability of related educational information
Tom Ala, MD and Greg Kyrouac, MSEd
  
8:40 AM
Preparing for the boom! Meeting the health promotion needs of older adults and aging “boomers” in rural communities
Elaine T. Jurkowski, MSW, PhD
8:50 AM
Educate before you medicate: Lessons learned from a program to promote safe medication use by low-income older adults
Jaslin Yu, BA, Scott Morrow, MD, MPH and Edith Cabuslay, MPH
  
9:00 AM
Attaining 'healthy life' as perceived by rural elder community dwellers: A narrative analysis
Amy Shaver, RN PhD
  
9:10 AM
Promoting Physical Activity through Community Interventions: The U.S.A National Blueprint Mini-Grants
Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko, PhD, Leticia Malavasi, MS and Chae-Hee Park, PhD
  
9:20 AM
Health Promotion for Older Workers
Susan Hughes, DSW, Rachel Seymour, PhD, Rosemary K. Sokas, MD,MOH, MSc, Richard T. Campbell, PhD, James W. Shaw, PhD, PharmD, MPH, Camille A. Fabiyi, MPH and Chiquia Coppage, MPH
9:30 AM
Walk Across Arizona: The effects of a community-based walking program on maintaining physical activity in older adults
Karalee Poschman, MPH, Linda Block, MS, Robin Harris, PhD, Robert Armstrong, MS and Nobuko Kay Hongu, PhD, RD

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Gerontological Health
Endorsed by: Epidemiology, Public Health Education and Health Promotion, Socialist Caucus

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