This document discusses advocacy programs and health promotion models relevant to elderly care. It describes the role of advocates in ensuring the rights and best interests of vulnerable older persons are protected. Several advocacy services are outlined, including assisting seniors in navigating the healthcare system and understanding their rights. The document also profiles several popular health promotion programs for older adults, such as Healthwise and Chronic Disease Self-Management, that focus on medical self-care, exercise, nutrition, and stress management.
This document discusses advocacy programs and health promotion models relevant to elderly care. It describes the role of advocates in ensuring the rights and best interests of vulnerable older persons are protected. Several advocacy services are outlined, including assisting seniors in navigating the healthcare system and understanding their rights. The document also profiles several popular health promotion programs for older adults, such as Healthwise and Chronic Disease Self-Management, that focus on medical self-care, exercise, nutrition, and stress management.
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Advocacy Programs Relevant to the Care of Older Persons (1)
This document discusses advocacy programs and health promotion models relevant to elderly care. It describes the role of advocates in ensuring the rights and best interests of vulnerable older persons are protected. Several advocacy services are outlined, including assisting seniors in navigating the healthcare system and understanding their rights. The document also profiles several popular health promotion programs for older adults, such as Healthwise and Chronic Disease Self-Management, that focus on medical self-care, exercise, nutrition, and stress management.
This document discusses advocacy programs and health promotion models relevant to elderly care. It describes the role of advocates in ensuring the rights and best interests of vulnerable older persons are protected. Several advocacy services are outlined, including assisting seniors in navigating the healthcare system and understanding their rights. The document also profiles several popular health promotion programs for older adults, such as Healthwise and Chronic Disease Self-Management, that focus on medical self-care, exercise, nutrition, and stress management.
of Older Persons Prepared by: Ma. Nerissa L. Villacorta Expected Outcomes
At the end of the unit, learners would be able to:
• Discuss advocacy relevant to elderly. • Describe several model health promotion programs. Advocacy Programs Relevant to the Care of Older Persons Role of Advocate in Health
Support a Ensure Best
vulnerable or that their interests disadvanta rights are are being ged person being taken upheld care of Advocacy Programs Relevant to the Care of Older Persons
HEALTH ADVOCACY - activities related
to ensuring access to care, navigating the system, mobilizing resources, addressing health inequities, influencing health policy and creating system change Advocacy Services
• interacting with the aged care system
• transitioning between aged care services • knowing and understanding their rights • making decisions about the care they receive • options for having their aged care needs better met Advocacy Services • resolving concerns or complaints with the aged care provider about the services they receive • speaking with their service provider at their direction • Increasing their skills and knowledge to advocate for them self. Who can access advocacy services? • live in an aged care home • receive aged care services in their own home • receive transition care • Are helping someone who is receiving aged care services. Legal advocacy • Older adults are disproportionately likely to have complex medical needs. • incorporate legal advocacy in their design. • funding mechanisms for health care and social services—especially civil legal services HEALTHY PEOPLE INITIATIVES
• Healthy People 2020/ Healthy People 2030
• Advancing Public Health Through Law and Policy – Smoke free air law – Mandatory seatbelt law • Law and Health Policy Resources Model Health Promotion Programs for Older Adults HEALTHWISE • The best-known older adult medical SELF-CARE PROGRAM is Healthwise. • It provides information and prevention tips on 190 common health problems. • Healthwise Handbook includes physician-approved guidelines on when to call a health professional for each of the health problems. Model Health Promotion Programs for Older Adults CHRONIC DISEASE MANAGEMENT • Kate Lorig, a nurse-researcher at the Standford University School of Medicine, and her medical colleagues have been evaluating community-based, peer-led,chronic disease self-management programs. • Each program involves about a 12 participants, led by peer leaders. • Focus on exercise, symptom management, nutrition, fatigue and sleep management, use of medications, managing emotions, community resources, communicating with health professionals, problem solving, and decision making. Model Health Promotion Programs for Older Adults PROJECT ENHANCE • 3. Project Enhance • Senior Wellness Project • Included health and functional assessments; individual and group counseling; exercise programs; a personal health action plan with the support of a nurse, social worker, and volunteer health mentor; and support groups. • A study of chronically ill seniors reported a reduction in a number of hospital stays and average length of stay, a reduction in psychotropic medications, and better functioning in activities of daily living. Model Health Promotion Programs for Older Adults ORNISH PROGRAM FOR REVERSING HEART DISEASE • Dr. Dean Ornish, a physician at the University of California at San Francisco has developed a program for reversing heart disease • Dr. Ornish (1992) has recommended a vegetarian diet with fat intake of 10% or less of total calories, moderate aerobic exercise at least three times a week, yoga and meditation an hour a day, group support sessions, and smoking cessation. • Result of their program, blockages in arteries have decreased in size, and blood flow has improved in as many as 82% of their heart patients. Model Health Promotion Programs for Older Adults BENSON’S MIND / BODY MEDICAL INSTITUTE • Dr. Herbert Benson at Harvard Medical School • For individuals feeling the negative effects of stress, Benson’s program teaches them to elicit the relaxation response, a western version of meditation. • Treat patients with a combination response techniques, proper nutrition and exercise, and the reframing of negative thinking patterns. Model Health Promotion Programs for Older Adults STRONG FOR LIFE • Home-based exercise program for disabled and nondisabled older adults. • Focuses on strength and balance, and provides an exercise video, a trainer’s manual, and a user’s guide. • The exercise program led to high rate of exercise adherence among older participants.