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Medical information and health promotion for the elderly — the first steps of a comparative program
Author(s)	Maria Lucchetti
Journal title	Educational Gerontology, vol 23, no 6, September 1997
Pages	pp 515-523
Keywords	Health [elderly] ; Information services ; Preventative medicine ; Adult Education ; Comparison ; Evaluation ; Italy.
Annotation	This article describes a health promotion programme in Italy which trains healthy older people aged 50 to 76 years. The experience is based on collaboration among social researchers, an association of elderly volunteers, and some medical teams. At the same time, a traditional method was used to give medical information to older people. The two programmes are compared, and their achievements evaluated. The principal characteristic of the research is the constant monitoring and assessment of the interventions, the aim being to demonstrate the utility of the educational approach.
Accession Number	CPA-971030246 A
Classmark	CC: UV: LK2: GP: 48: 4C: 76V
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