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| Saturday, 14 January 2006: 8:00 AM-9:45 AM | |||
| Social Workers Translating Research into Practice: Evidence-Based Health Promotion for Older Adults | |||
| Speaker/presenters: | Mary Altpeter, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gretchen Alkema, MSW, University of Southern California Tara Healy, PhD, University of Southern Maine Nancy Wilson, MA, Baylor College of Medicine | ||
| Abstract Text: This skills-oriented, highly interactive workshop is designed to help social work researchers, educators and practitioners translate research on health promotion and aging into evidence-based practice. The workshop will cover current national program philosophies and funding initiatives driving evidence-based health promotion with older adult populations, evolving multi-disciplinary conceptual frameworks, state of the art planning and evaluation tools, concrete skill-building approaches, and a diverse array of health promotion program examples. First, we will set the context for the profession's role in making broad service system change through re-casting internal practice and external partnerships in evidence-based health promotion with older adult populations. We will provide an overview of the growing national funding initiatives that emphasize integrated partnerships between the health, aging and academic communities. We will then review creative conceptual approaches and core terminology related to current evidence-based health promotion practices. We will feature the comprehensive RE-AIM model which entails a systematic way for social work researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to evaluate health behavior interventions and to estimate the potential impact of health interventions on older adult populations. Next, we will present the “logic model” as a translational research tool for planning program components, contexts and outcomes of health promotion programs. We will describe the use of the logic model tool as part of the social work “educational” function with partners. Then, we will demonstrate how to translate the evidence of health promotion interventions tested in the “laboratory setting” into the implementation and evaluation of “real world” community-based health promotion programs, while attending to issues of fidelity and flexibility. We will review specific evaluation protocols for collecting process and outcome data and demonstrate how to compare outcomes of adapted programs to the original health intervention research. Finally, we will discuss embedding evidence-based health promotion programs in every day social work practice in community settings. Using the example of an evidence-based depression intervention that was integrated within the general case management services for older adults, we will provide tools for teaching evidence-based health promotion and evaluation skills to case managers. Throughout the workshop, we will draw upon the social work program planning, management and research experiences of the presenters in implementing innovative health promotion and aging programs that address a variety of common older adult health issues. We will actively engage participants in discussing and learning how to use tools and teaching methods to train social work researchers and practitioners to adapt and evaluate health promotion programs. Participants will receive packets of educational materials that cover the background of conceptual frameworks, an array of tools for conducting evidence-based health promotion program assessment, planning and evaluation, as well as a variety of web-based program and research resources for health promotion programs for older adults. | |||
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