Volume
44
Issue
4
Abstract
In southern Oregon, Extension-sponsored symposia have repeatedly provided health-related information to older adults. In the most recent symposium, an action-planning component was incorporated, asking each participant to use the knowledge acquired during a day of informal training to specify a health-related behavior they wished to change. The participants were asked to commit, in writing, to changing an identified behavior. Eighty-seven percent of individuals attending the symposium who completed action plans and were reached by telephone 2 weeks to 3 weeks following the date of the symposium reported they were successful in changing specific health-related behaviors.
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Recommended Citation
Johnson, S. D. (2006). Optimal Aging and the Use of Action Plans. The Journal of Extension, 44(4), Article 21. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/joe/vol44/iss4/21
