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| A multidisciplinary model of health promotion incorporating spirituality into a successful aging intervention with African American and white elderly groups | | Author(s) | Michael W Parker, Jeffrey M Bellis, Phillip Bishop |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 42, no 3, June 2002 |
| Pages | pp 406-415 |
| Keywords | White people ; Black people ; Health [elderly] ; Preventative medicine ; Religion ; Faith ; Multi disciplinary ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | A community and faith-based intervention with older people and their adult children involving religious, medical and academic communities is described. Lifestyle changes, and individual and corporate forms of spirituality were affirmed, using an expanded Rowe and Kahn model of successful ageing. A variety of workshops were presented at a multi-church sponsored conference that hosted more than 500 older people. Post-conference surveys suggested extremely favourable satisfaction rates across all groups represented. The African American religious community provided critical leadership in achieving a high participation rate for their group. The model described has the capacity to generate collaborations across denominational, racial and class barriers, and has the potential of helping to unify the religious community around the important task of promoting successful ageing. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020703212 A |
| Classmark | TKA: TKE: CC: LK2: TR: EX5: 3DM: 7T |
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