This section of the Mayors Wellness Campaign toolbox targets ways that you can encourage healthier lifestyles among the seniors in your community. The Mayors Wellness Campaign urges you to view urge you to view those who provide care to seniors — entities of all types and sizes — in your community as partners in this wellness effort.
Senior care providers can include gerontologists, long term care facilities, nursing homes, senior centers, rheumatologists, internists, home health care nurses, local offices on aging, independent living, assisted living, and retirement communities.
Further, this section provides you with a unique tool: a bridge with which you can build relationships with both senior care providers and seniors in your community. To aid you in this effort, we have created some additional tools for you to use in encouraging both seniors and care providers to get involved in what your municipality is doing with the Mayors Wellness Campaign. These tools can be used as incentives to encourage senior involvement.
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We hope these tools will be helpful to you in encouraging local seniors and senior care providers to join your effort, and ultimately help to promote healthy lifestyles in your community. You should also consider care providers as potential members of a municipal wellness task force to plan and implement any programs and attitude changes in your community.
As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Mayors Wellness Campaign staff at 1-800-414-4931.
