Enhance Wellness

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Detailed Description of Enhance Wellness

An individualized, community-based wellness intervention designed to promote the health and functioning of community-dwelling older adults and reduce risk of functional decline. The intervention was designed to identify risk factors for disability and to empower the individual to reverse those risk factors. A team of two professionals, usually a nurse and a social worker, work with the individual to develop a plan and provide support and encouragement in achieving the goals of the plan. The program lasts six months and includes weekly support groups lead by a health-care professional. Outcomes include fewer hospital days and fewer medications. There is a licensing fee and instructors must be clinicians.

-- TiffanyShubert - 2009-09-21