Barriers and strategies for implementing community-based interventions with minority elders: positive minds-strong bodies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

By 2040, one out of three older adults in the USA are expected to belong to a racial/ethnic minority group. This population has an increased risk of mental and physical disability with significant barriers to access care. Community-based organizations (CBOs) often provide programming to serve minority and immigrant elders. Limited resources and other barriers such as lack of trained staff make it difficult to implement evidence-based interventions (EBIs) in CBOs for long-term adoption. Yet little is known about what factors can facilitate adoption of EBIs in CBOs serving minority elders.

Methods

Positive-Minds-Strong Bodies (PM-SB), an evidence-based intervention offered in four languages, aims to reduce mental and physical disability for minority and immigrant el

SUBMITTER: Porteny T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7427860 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature