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Innov Aging
Innov Aging
innovateage
Innovation in Aging
2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1776
igaa057.1776
Abstracts
Session 5060 (Symposium)
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Age-Friendly Community Education: Fostering Health Behavior Change in a Medically Underserved Community
Thompson Katherine  
University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States
2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”545 545
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract
The University of Chicago GWEP, SHARE Network (Supporting Healthy Aging Resources and Education), is located on the South Side of Chicago, an urban medically underserved community. SHARE Network partners with a variety of community based organizations (CBOs) to support Age Friendly care through an Age Friendly Community Education Curriculum. In a one year period, 28 events were held in 13 CBO sites. Each of these events addressed the 4Ms of Age Friendly care with a specific content focus on Mentation (5 events), Mobility (5), Medications (4), and What Matters (10), and 4 events focused on multiple domains. There were 458 attendees, 290 completed surveys (63% response rate). Eighty-eight percent of participants planned to make a healthy behavior change after participation. Age Friendly Community Education can complement health system transformation to lead to health behavior change for community-dwelling older adults in medically underserved communities.