Nurturing Families and Healthy AgingPlan of Work

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Gallatin County CES

Title:
Nurturing Families and Healthy Aging
MAP:
Healthy Communities
Agents Involved:
Broderick
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Embracing Life as We Age (general)
MAJOR PROGRAM 2:
Nurturing Parenting
MAJOR PROGRAM 3:
Nurturing Families (general)
Situation:
Healthy couple and parenting relationships and resulting family stability benefit the well-being of adults and children. Co-habiting, same-sex, divorced, widowed and single households are the new majority. Children who live absent from their biological fathers are two to three times more likely to be poor, to experience educational, health, emotional and behavioral problems than their peers who live with their married, biological (or adoptive) parents. In 2013, 25 percent of Kentucky children lived in poverty, ranking Kentucky 40th in the nation. Children who live in poverty are more likely to have fewer learning disabilities and developmental delays.
People are living longer. Kentucky’s current population of seniors (65+) is 13.3%, a number that is expected to double in the next 40 years due to the aging Baby Boomers (post WWII babies born between 1946-1964). Approximately 25% of Kentucky’s population includes Boomers, who, in 2011, started turning 65. Meanwhile, babies born in Kentucky in 2011 are projected to live to be 75 years old (3 years younger than the national average). Whether it is the graying of America or extended life expectancies, aging is a lifespan process. Therefore, it is important to acknowledge and celebrate the changes that accompany aging, in regard to health, independence and life quality throughout all stages of life.
Long-Term Outcomes:
• Build personal strengths and self-control, interpersonal communication, life skills including wise decision-making.
• Embrace people from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds
• Participants become volunteers to make their community a better place to live for everyone.
• Increase caregiving knowledge and quality relationships.
• Decrease in the number of falls.
Intermediate Outcomes:
• Increase in family meal time.
• Increase communication and enhance relationships and social support.
• Practice skills to strengthen and sustain relationships
• Individuals are engaged in community outreach activities.
• Individuals change behavior to decrease risk of falling.
Initial Outcomes:
• Participants commits to set family rules regarding eating together, limiting screen time, active play and exercise, set routines
• Participants gain knowledge and awareness on ways to reduce falls.
• Participants gain knowledge and awareness on age-related family issues (e.g. dementia, power of attorney, living wills, failing health, dying, loss and bereavement)
Evaluation:
Long-term Outcome:
Indicator: Reduce the number of falls reported by 50%.
Method: Use date supplied by the safekentucky.org
Timeline: 4-6 years

Intermediate Outcome:
Indicator: Individuals change behavior to decrease risk of falling.
Method: follow up evaluations
Timeline: 6 months to a year

Initial Outcome:
Indicator: Participants gain knowledge and awareness on ways to reduce falls
Method: End of program evaluations
Timeline: 1-2 months

Learning Opportunities:

Audience: Families

Project or Activity: Grandparents and Grandchildren Together

Content or Curriculum: Grandparents and Grandchildren Together and other UK publications

Inputs: Extension staff, Kentucky CES publications and resources, volunteers

Date:



Audience: Families

Project or Activity: Nurturing Parenting

Content or Curriculum: Nurturing Parenting

Inputs: Extension staff, Kentucky CES publications and resources, volunteers

Date:



Audience: Adults

Project or Activity: Traditions

Content or Curriculum: Kentucky CES publications and resources

Inputs: Extension staff, volunteers

Date:


Audience: 65+ adults, KEHA members

Project or Activity: Matter of Balance

Content or Curriculum: Matter of Balance, UK curriculum

Inputs: Extension staff, Kentucky CES publications and resources, volunteers

Date: Spring 2018


Audience: KEHA Members

Project or Activity: Healthy Homemakers – 2-part series

Content: UK curriculum

Inputs: Extension Staff, community volunteers, health professionals and organizations

Date: August, 2017; January 2018



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