Educating for Health: Developing Educational & Community Based Program for Older Adults

Educating for Health

Table of contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
BACKGROUND.............................................................................................................................3
Assessing learning needs for Older Adult.......................................................................................5
Meeting the learning needs of the chosen group.............................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
Appendix-1 Teaching Plan..............................................................................................................9
REFRENCES.................................................................................................................................11

Title- To develop educational & community based program about the health promotion among
older people aged above 65 in regards of improvement in the chronic illness.
INTRODUCTION
The education & community bases programs plays an important role in order to prevent
disease, injury, improving health condition from chronic disease, enhancing quality of life.
Health status and related behavior of older groups are identified by influences at different levels
such as personal, environmental and policy. This is because of significant aspect in which create
a dynamic interrelationship exits among health determinants. The educational and community-
based programs are likely to succeed in improving health & wellness, when they can easily
addressed influence at multiple levels and variety of environment settings.
In this essay, it will discuss about the concept of educational & community program, in
order to target the older aged people whose aged above 65 years in workplaces. It will describe
about background information related to health education, and identify the particular complex
problem or issue in context of health.
BACKGROUND
Understanding education & Community-based programs: -
Health & quality of life which may rely on the different community systems. It is not
simply on the basis of functioning health as well as medical care system (Berg-Weger and
Morley, 2020). It may support for improving health programs and policies, it can effectively
improve the entire health of different older aged people community.
For an older aged groups to improve the health condition of older people, it must often
change the aspect of physical and social environment. In order to eliminate or reduce factors that

contribute to health problem or issues. It has been introduced new elements which is always
promotes better health condition.
The profession of informing the people about the health is known as health education.
The education of health involves the knowledge about environmental health, social health,
physical health, intellectual health, emotional health along with the reproductive as well as
sexual health. The education of health can be considered as the principles that can help the group
of people and individuals to behave in a manner that can promote maintain and restore the
health. The definitions of health are wide and thus the definitions for the health education are
also wide. The joint community on Health Education and Promotion Terminology of 2001, in
America, define health education as the learning experience that is planned with the theories that
help the individuals, communities and groups of people in having the opportunity to acquire the
information as well skills for making quality decisions for their health (Yingklang and et.al,
2018). The World Health Organisation defines health education as opportunity for learning that
is consciously constructed and has design for the communication to improve the literacy in
health, knowledge improvement, and development of the life skills that conducive to the
community health as well as individuals.
It is a responsibility on the health care providers for providing the education for the
health and wellbeing for the elderly people appropriately. The learning ability of the elder adults
is poor and they need to be overcome this obstacle for providing the effective education to the
older group. The changes in the learning can happen while educating the older group of people.
The order of aging in the elderly people is depended upon the environmental factors as well as
the genetics. The elder people can have problems like difficulty in hearing and seeing with the
aging. The responding skills can also slow down with time. The psychological changes to the
elderly people affect the health education. The impact can be seen with the change in the
memory, problem solving, learning and attitude. The socio-cultural changes for the elderly
people also impact the learning capability of the people. The elderly people with the health
condition seek for self- independency and the health care provider need to educate them for the
self-management skills (Richmond and et.al, 2020). The ability of the elderly people for solving
the problem is dependent upon the education closely. The people who think them as a wise and
experienced individual than the education can be built upon the positive experience and new
ways can be adopted for improving the health of the individual.