Journal article
Effects of a community health promotion program on social factors in a vulnerable older adult population residing in social housing
Abstract
BackgroundSupporting older adults’ health and wellbeing in the community is an important policy goal that can be supported by health promotion. Despite widespread acceptance of the biopsychosocial model of health and its relation to health, many health promotion programs fail to realize this model in program design. Further, there is limited evidence to support program design targeting social determinants of health such as social isolation or …
Authors
Agarwal G; Brydges M
Journal
BMC Geriatrics, Vol. 18, No. 1,
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
December 2018
DOI
10.1186/s12877-018-0764-9
ISSN
1471-2318