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| Developing and implementing an HIV/AIDS educational curriculum for older adults | | Author(s) | Joanne Altschuler, Anne D Katz, Margaret Tynan |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 44, no 1, February 2004 |
| Pages | pp 121-126 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | AIDS ; Curricula ; Courses [adult education] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data for 2002 from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that almost 11% of all cases of AIDS were diagnosed in people aged 50+. Despite the steady rise and future projections of increase, there is still a paucity of education and prevention programmes targeting this population. This article reports on the development and piloting of a course on HIV/AIDS prevention. It describes an education curriculum that provides older people with accurate information about the relevance of HIV'/AIDS to their lives. 249 ethnically and economically diverse adults aged 50+ selected from 14 organisations in rural and urban settings in California were surveyed to determine their interest in participating HIV/AIDS education prevention courses. Most of the participants were interested; female respondents were more likely to attend than males. Participants who were moderately or very religious were also more likely to attend. Participants expressed preference for prevention education through presentations and centres serving older people, and from physicians and other health care providers. On the basis of these findings, a specialised curriculum targeting older people was developed, presented and disseminated. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040726204 A |
| Classmark | CQTT: V9C: GP:VE: 7T |
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