Health and Wellness Programs for Older Adults

Abstract The University of North Georgia’s Personal Enrichment, Action, Knowledge Series (PEAKS) was developed as a monthly series of engaging and seasonally appropriate presentations and activities designed to expressly meet the needs of the region’s large and quickly growing older adult population during the Covid-19 pandemic and resultant isolation. The PEAKS programs are available virtually to allow for broad participation throughout the 30 county UNG service region. While we developed PEAKS to specifically reach-out to older adults in our region, we have found that our audience is actually multi-generational, actively engaging with our speakers and one another. AFU underpinnings for PEAKS include Principle #8 - To enhance access for older adults to the university's range of health and wellness programs and its arts and cultural activities; and #9 - To engage actively with the university's own retired community.

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Effects of Sequential Participation in Evidence-Based Health and Wellness Programs Among Older Adults

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igy016 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Shinduk Lee ◽

Matthew Lee Smith ◽

Samuel D Towne ◽

Marcia G Ory

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Wellness Programs ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Health And Wellness

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Towards Corporate Wellness: Health Culture and Wellness Programs

Journal of Intercultural Management ◽

10.1515/joim-2017-0013 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 45-61 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Barbara Mazur ◽

Marta Mazur-Małek

Keyword(s):

Corporate Culture ◽

Wellness Programs ◽

Health And Wellness ◽

Health It ◽

Labor Costs ◽

Corporate Wellness ◽

Concept Of Health ◽

Company Culture ◽

Health Related ◽

Health Promoting

AbstractThe aim of the article is to present wellness programs as means leading to the creation of culture of health in organizations. The notion of culture of health is becoming increasingly important for companies as statistics show that the number of health-related work problems is steadily increasing. As a result, labor costs are systematically increasing. To tackle this problem, companies began to introduce health and wellness programs to improve the psychophysical health of their employees. The article includes an overview of the concept of health-promoting company culture. It also identifies factors determining its success among employees, defines factors that limit employee participation and presents good practices for disease prevention through employee-oriented programs. This article is based on a literature review, including both: literature and statistical data available in official data bases. In many cases, research confirms the usefulness of wellness programs in the process of building a corporate culture of health. It also shows factors limiting the usability of such programs, which leads to companies being able to develop and improve.

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Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Food and Nutrition for Older Adults: Promoting Health and Wellness

Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics ◽

10.1016/j.jand.2012.06.015 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 112 (8) ◽

pp. 1255-1277 ◽

Cited By ~ 133

Author(s):

Melissa Bernstein ◽

Nancy Munoz

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Health And Wellness ◽

Food And Nutrition ◽

Nutrition And Dietetics

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Therapeutic teaching artistry: Towards a wellness model for enhancing vitality in older adults

Drama Therapy Review ◽

10.1386/dtr_00063_1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 95-113

Author(s):

Andrew M. Gaines

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Arts Education ◽

Constructivist Grounded Theory ◽

Creative Arts ◽

Health And Wellness ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Teaching Artists ◽

Senior Centre

This qualitative case study examined how the therapeutic aspects of drama teaching artistry was conceptualized at an urban lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) senior centre by observing and/or participating in 31 creative arts education sessions and conducting two focus groups with the centre’s older adult members. Additionally, 34 semi-structured interviews were held with the centre’s teaching artists (TAs), older adults and administrators. Using constructivist grounded theory, emergent themes led to two primary findings: (1) the conceptual category therapeutic teaching artistry articulated how TAs’ practices promoted health and wellness; and (2) a provisional major concept Being Alive captured how members’ quality of life were perceived to be enhanced by the creative arts education programming. Beyond facilitating reminiscence, preventing decline or merely stimulating older adults, TAs helped older adults internalize a greater sense of agency, affirm their own humanity and improve vitality without unethically conducting creative arts therapy.

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Feasibility of Using Telehealth to Deliver the “Powerful Tools for Caregivers” Program

International Journal of Telerehabilitation ◽

10.5195/ijt.2017.6214 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 15-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Katrina M. Serwe ◽

Gayle I. Hersch ◽

Karen Pancheri

Keyword(s):

Family Caregivers ◽

Wellness Programs ◽

Health And Wellness ◽

Wellness Program ◽

Delivery Method ◽

Delivery Format ◽

Quantitative Results ◽

High Median ◽

Improve Health ◽

Total Average

Caregivers report poorer health and wellness than the general population and identify numerous barriers to their attending programs to improve health and wellness. The purpose of this study was to explore the feasibility of employing a telehealth delivery method to enhance access to caregiver wellness programs. This article presents the quantitative results of a mixed methods feasibility study of translating the Powerful Tools for Caregivers (PTC) program to a telehealth delivery format. Four unpaid family caregivers of older adults participated in a telehealth delivered PTC program, a wellness program with established outcomes in the in-person environment. The program was delivered using synchronous videoconferencing methods. High class attendance and a high median total average Telehealth Usability Questionnaire score of 5.7 indicated the telehealth delivery method was feasible. This research suggests that telehealth is a feasible delivery format for a caregiver program traditionally delivered in an in-person format.

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