Promoting Active Aging: Lessons Learned in an Implementation Pilot in Primary Care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physical activity (PA) preserves mobility, but few practices screen older adults for mobility impairment or counsel on PA.

Design

"Promoting Active Aging" (PAA) was a mixed-methods randomized-controlled pilot, to test the feasibility and acceptability of a video-based PA counseling tool and implementation into practice of two mobility assessment tools.

Setting

Three primary care practices affiliated with Wake Forest Baptist Health.

Participants

Adults aged 65 years and older who presented for primary care follow-up and were willing and able to answer self-report questions and walk 4 meters (n = 59).

Intervention

Video-based PA counseling intervention versus control video, "Healthy Eating."

Measurements

Potential participants completed m

SUBMITTER: Callahan KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7902351 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature