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Overview
Target Behavior: Healthy Eating, Physical Activity and Reducing Screen Time
Intervention Type: PSE Change
Intervention Reach and Adoption
Setting: Community (Live), Other: Senior Centers
Target Audience: Older Adults
Race/Ethnicity: No special focus
Intervention Components
Intervention Materials
- Senior Center Nutrition and Physical Activity Needs Assessment
- Section one: Administrative Information
- Section two: Organizational Thoughts and Administrative Support
- Section three: Physical Activity and Nutrition
- Smart Goal Action Plan
- Logic Model Worksheet
The Toolkit is designed to assess the readiness, needs, and strengths of senior centers with regards to nutrition and PA programming. The results of the needs assessment, combined with the information, ideas, and materials in the Toolkit, can assist centers and their partners to start or improve programming.
Intervention Costs
Evidence Summary
The unintended benefits of the intervention include:
- The needs assessment tool provides a benchmark for where a center is starting, as well as prompts ideas for best practices
- Senior center participants involved in implementing the toolkit increase buy-in for PSE changes
- Some centers decided to do the needs assessment tool on their own rather than having a SNAP-Ed staff complete section three, indicating a large investment of time
The challenges include:
- Centers have a range of meal circumstances that are sometimes out of their control
- Explaining that even if food is from an outside vendor there are still opportunities for PSE change in the nutrition and PA sphere
- Seniors are sometimes viewed as being “stuck in their ways” and therefore centers may be discouraged from trying to make changes
Evidence-based Approach: Emerging
Evaluation Indicators
Readiness and Capacity – Short Term (ST) | Changes – Medium Term (MT) | Effectiveness and Maintenance – Long Term (LT) | Population Results (R) | |
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Individual | ||||
Environmental Settings | ST5 | |||
Sectors of Influence |
ST5: Need and Readiness
- ST5b: Six senior centers with an identified need for improving access or creating appeal for nutrition and PA supports.
- ST5c: Six senior centers that documented readiness for changes in PSE.
Evaluation Materials
Additional Information
Contact Person:
Melissa Sattler Gordon, MSPH, RD
215-573-1291
msattler@sas.upenn.edu