How to Increase Participation in Senior Centers

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Increasing senior citizen participation in a community-based nutritious meal program More
Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago by Cheryl Daugherty | permalink
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Two experiments were conducted to compare the effects of several prompting and reinforcement procedures on the participation of elderly citizens in a nutritious meal program. Experiment I employed a variation of the multiple-baseline design across three ...

For further reading: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1311270/ ^[1]

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Increasing Participation in Benefit Programs for Low-Income Seniors More
Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago by akypb | permalink
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A review of the literature shows that some of the most vulnerable Americans, low-income seniors, do not participate in benefit programs for which they are eligible. The two major obstacles to enrollment are lack of knowledge about public benefit programs and the complexity of application and enrollment processes.

For further reading: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2009/may/increasing-participation-in-benefit-programs-for-low-income-seniors ^[2]