Factors Affecting Readiness for Low Vision Interventions in Older Adults.

Objective: We sought to identify factors that facilitate and inhibit readiness for low vision interventions in people with vision loss, conceptualized as readiness for change in the way they perform daily activities.

Method: We conducted 10 semistructured interviews with older adults with low vision and analyzed the results using grounded theory concepts.

Results: Themes involving factors that facilitated change included desire to maintain or regain independence, positive attitude, and presence of formal social support.

Recruiting older adults into a physical activity promotion program: Active Living Every Day offered in a naturally occurring retirement community.

Purpose: This article explores recruitment strategies based on the transtheoretical model (TTM) with older adults living in a naturally occurring retirement community (NORC) to encourage enrollment in a physical activity promotion program, Active Living Every Day (ALED). Reasons for participation or nonparticipation are identified.

Design And Methods: Recruitment strategies were designed to move older adults through the TTM stages of change to enroll in ALED and were built on meetings and resources established by St.

Anticipating relocation: concerns about moving among NORC residents.

Most older adults prefer to live at home as long as possible, requiring supports and services to help them age in place. This study examines the relocation concerns of a group of older adults in a suburban naturally-occurring retirement community (NORC). Twenty-six percent of the 324 residents interviewed expressed concern about having to move in the next few years.