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Lifestyle activities in sociodemographically at-risk urban, older adults prior to participation in the Baltimore Experience Corps trial
Author(s)	Jeanine M Parisi, George W Rebok, Teresa E Seeman
Journal title	Activities, Adaptation and Aging, vol 36, no 3, July-September2012
Publisher	Taylor and Francis, July-September2012
Pages	pp 242-260
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Activities of older people ; Social policy ; Preventative medicine ; Children ; Older people ; At risk ; Urban areas ; Voluntary workers.
Annotation	Experience Corps places teams of trained volunteers in elementary school classrooms to promote academic achievement in children and serves as a health promotion intervention for older adults. Prior to randomisation, individuals reported participation in several activities of varying cognitive, physical and social demands. Maintaining an active lifestyle, particularly in intellectually demanding activities, was associated with physical, mental and cognitive health in adulthood. Establishing how individuals allocated their time before randomisation to this programme provides insight into prevalent health behaviours for at-risk older adults, and can provide the basis for examining intervention-related changes in lifestyle as a result of volunteer participation. (JL).
Accession Number	CPA-130208222 A
Classmark	G: TM2: LK2: SBC: B: CA3: RK: QV
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