Community health activities program for seniors

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Skip to Main Content. Find us on Social. Annals Behavioral Medicine, 19 4 , Skip to main content. Program Synopsis. Purpose: Designed to increase physical activity among sedentary individuals. Sex: Female, Male. Program Focus: Awareness building and Behavior Modification. Population Focus: Sedentary Individuals. Program Area: Physical Activity. Delivery Location: Other Settings.

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Details about Implementation Implementation. This program has been evaluated on criteria from the RE-AIM framework, which helps translate research into action. The Need. The Program. This program uses intervention approaches recommended by the Community Preventive Services Task Force: community-wide campaigns Physical Activity and individually-adapted health behavior change programs Physical Activity.

Time Required. Giles, K. Journal of Physical Activity and Health , 6 2 , Godard, M. Harada, N. An evaluation of three self-report physical activity instruments for older adults. Medicine and science in sports and exercise , 33 6 , Hekler, E. Journal of Physical Activity and Health , 9 2 , Kaleth, A. Validity and reliability of community health activities model program for seniors and short-form international physical activity questionnaire as physical activity assessment tools in patients with fibromyalgia.

Disability and rehabilitation , 32 5 , Pruitt, L. Use of accelerometry to measure physical activity in older adults at risk for mobility disability.

Journal of aging and physical activity , 16 4 , Stahl, S. Caloric expenditure assessment among older adults: Criterion validity of a novel accelerometry device. Journal of health psychology , 19 11 , Stewart, A. Medicine and science in sports and exercise , 33 7 , Recent from the Newsroom.

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