A Prescription Produce Program integrating lifestyle behavior counseling and health education: A program description and evaluation.

Prescription Produce Programs (PPPs) are increasingly being used to address food insecurity and healthy diets. Yet, limited evidence exists on the effectiveness of integrating lifestyle counseling within a PPP to promote dietary and health behaviors. To describe the implementation of a 6- or 12-week PPP integrating lifestyle counseling to low-income adults.

Using a Device-Free Wi-Fi Sensing System to Assess Daily Activities and Mobility in Low-Income Older Adults: Protocol for a Feasibility Study.

Background: Older adults belonging to racial or ethnic minorities with low socioeconomic status are at an elevated risk of developing dementia, but resources for assessing functional decline and detecting cognitive impairment are limited. Cognitive impairment affects the ability to perform daily activities and mobility behaviors. Traditional assessment methods have drawbacks, so smart home technologies (SmHT) have emerged to offer objective, high-frequency, and remote monitoring.

Engaging Interprofessional Health Students in a Prescription Produce Plan.

Nursing students participated in an interprofessional student-led prescription produce program (PPP) serving low-income older adults attending a community-based wellness and care coordination program. Students engaged in an online training module covering nutrition education and health promotion, integral components of a PPP. Ninety-five percent of students self-rated themselves as somewhat confident/very confident to participate in the PPP after completing an online learning module.

Cultivating Relationships as a Community-Based Recruitment Strategy in Transdisciplinary Aging Research: Lessons From an Academic-Community Partnership.

Participation of Black American older adults in community-engaged research remains challenging in health sciences. The objectives of this study were to describe the specific efforts, successes, and challenges in recruiting Black American older adults in research led by the Health and Wellness in Aging Across the Lifespan core, part of the Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Inclusion, Inquiry, and Innovation (iCubed). We conducted a cross-case analysis of 6 community-engaged research projects using the community-engaged research continuum model.

A Ceratopteris EXCESS MICROSPOROCYTES1 suppresses reproductive transition in the fern vegetative leaves.

Land plant sexual reproduction involves the transition of cells from somatic to reproductive identity during post-embryonic development. In Arabidopsis, the leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase EXCESS MICROSPOROCYTES1 (EXS/EMS1) restricts the number of sporogenous cells during the transition from diploid tissue to haploid spore production by promoting the formation of the tapetum cell layer within the anther. Although all land plants studied contain EMS1 genes, its function is unknown beyond a few angiosperms.