Research article summary:

Seniors connect: a partnership for training between health care and public libraries.

Abstract Extract:
Kaleida Health Libraries, in partnership with the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, presented 'Seniors Connect: A Health Information Project.' The program was funded by the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo and the Kaleida Health Foundation. ... (Full abstract text below)

Published 2002 in Journal: Med Ref Serv Q (Language : eng)

Full Pubmed Extract

This information was retrieved, real-time, on your behalf from the public area of the Pubmed website:

1. Med Ref Serv Q. 2002 ;21(3):1-19

Seniors connect: a partnership for training between health care and public libraries.

Schwartz DG, Mosher E, Wilson S, Lipkus C, Collins R

Kaleida Health, Buffalo General Hospital, 100 High Street, Buffalo, NY 14203. Dschwartz@kaleidahealth.org

Kaleida Health Libraries, in partnership with the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, presented "Seniors Connect: A Health Information Project." The program was funded by the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo and the Kaleida Health Foundation. The purpose of the project was to teach African-American and Hispanic senior citizens or their caregivers residing in the city of Buffalo how to search the Internet to find quality, accurate, understandable health information. Attendees were taught to distinguish quality information from inaccurate, misleading, and fraudulent material. A total of fourteen training sessions were offered. The Seniors Connect program was initiated with health fair at each branch library, conducted by Kaleida Health staff, to provide an opportunity for participants to learn about health care services available in their community; observe demonstrations of health information searches on the Internet; learn about new treatment modalities for diseases such as diabetes, high cholesterol, thyroid abnormalities, and hypertension; and interact with area health care providers and library staff. The sessions were highly rated by attendees and many participants expressed their gratitude for a program geared specifically toward seniors.

PMID : 12238013 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]

This information is obtained from the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Abstract text and other information may be subject to copyright. Type "NLM copyright" into Google for more information.

Full Author Information

First Name	LastName	Initials
Diane G	Schwartz	DG
Elaine	Mosher	E
Suzanne	Wilson	S
Charlene	Lipkus	C
Ruth	Collins	R

Affiliation: Kaleida Health, Buffalo General Hospital, 100 High Street, Buffalo, NY 14203. Dschwartz@kaleidahealth.org

3rd Party provider links

Click the links below to go to related 3rd party information:

MESH categories and related page links

This article was linked to the MESH categories shown on the left below. The links on the right are related Memletics pages.

Links for this article

For links to places where you can get the full text of this article see links. Note there may be a subscription or fee required for access to the full text.

New! Using similar technology to this site, we have launched find-health-articles.com, targeting over 1 million health research article abstracts.

Here are some articles related to this one (by title keywords):

What physicians need to know about seniors and limited prescription benefits, and why.

Reaching and teaching new medical students.

Public-private partnerships in the siting of hazardous waste facilities: the importance of trust.

Principles for planning the teaching of dental public health in an MPH course.

Brandon/Hill selected list of print books and journals in allied health.

Physiological characteristics of junior and senior rugby league players.

Philosophical underpinnings of an emergent methodology for nursing as caring inquiry.

A new first-year course designed and taught by a senior medical student.

Health science learning academy: a successful 'pipeline' educational program for high school students.

Establishing centers to address treatment effectiveness in diverse ethnic groups: the MEDTEP experience.

>>> Get more research article abstracts like these, or browse abstracts.

Keywords in this article:

abnormalities, accurate, african, american, area, attendees, available, branch, buffalo, caregivers, cholesterol, citizens, city, community, conducted, connect, county, demonstrations, diabetes, diseases, distinguish, erie, expressed, fair, find, foundation, fourteen, fraudulent, funded, geared, gratitude, greater, health, high, highly, hispanic, hypertension, inaccurate, information, initiated, interact, internet, kaleida, learn, libraries, library, many, material, misleading, modalities, new, observe, offered, opportunity, participants, partnership, presented, program, project, provide, providers, public, purpose, quality, rated, residing, search, searches, seniors, services, sessions, specifically, staff, taught, teach, thyroid, total, toward, training, treatment, understandable

Also, see our new free speed reading online course (beta version)