Health & Aging: Understanding Alcohol Use (NIAAA)

描述（由申请人提供）：Terra Nova学习系统热情地期待研究，开发，生产，测试和营销健康与老龄化：了解酒精使用计划概述了这一建议。这套协调的材料将解决NIAAA的优先事项，即告知“老年人与酒精问题有关的特定年龄风险”，并满足公共部门日益增长的重要教育需求。为了有效地解决老年人使用酒精的问题，Terra Nova认为，教育是关键的第一步，需要采取多层次的方法。这里提出的最终产品包括教育工具，旨在满足各种用户的需求，理解水平和学习风格。将为医疗保健提供者和其他参与老年人护理和治疗的专业人员以及相关学科的学生开发在线课程。该课程将提供继续教育学分，并提供以下工具，用于社区外展和服务学习机会。外展工具将包括信息丰富的DVD、幻灯片演示和印刷材料，不仅教育老年人，还教育家庭成员、朋友、照顾者和其他可能发现老年人日常生活或行为变化的人。据报道，在诊断老年人的酒精问题方面存在困难，经常与这一群体的成员互动的有爱心的人可以在识别酒精相关症状方面发挥关键作用。 此外，还将制作一个公益告示，广泛传播重要信息。通过使用不同的图像，谨慎的内容和多媒体格式（DVD，网络，印刷品，音频），教育部分将被设计为满足不同的产品最终用户群体的独特需求和能力。第一阶段的工作将包括与专家顾问合作拟订详细的大纲和单一主题的原型如下：1）在线课程的原型模块，上传到Terra Nova电子学习中心，2）描述外展DVD的元素、顺序和设计的故事板，3）幻灯片演示的原型部分，4）为老年人和照顾他人的信息小册子的原型部分，以及5）海报。最终产品的主要购买者包括医疗机构、医生和其他提供者、辅助生活设施、疗养院、图书馆、药剂师、当地卫生部门和药物滥用中心。Terra Nova希望为这种创新的最终产品找到一个强大的市场，专业人士寻求有关老年人问题的培训，学生寻求与老年群体一起学习服务的培训，老年人和照顾他人的人将受益于有关老年人饮酒风险的信息。公共卫生相关性：教育方案“健康与老龄化：了解酒精使用"将直接解决NIAAA的优先事项，即告知“老年人与酒精问题有关的特定年龄风险。“最终产品将提供一个关键的公共卫生服务，告知关键个人，从医疗保健专业人员和学生到家庭成员和老年人，关于酒精使用的负面，与年龄有关的影响。通过以各种形式向用户提供并根据每个目标受众的理解水平专门编制的一套协调材料，该方案将建立一个知情、支持性个人网络，这些人通过分享信息，将有助于提高老年人对饮酒和衰老的认识，帮助促进知情决策和更好的生活质量。.

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Terra Nova Learning Systems enthusiastically anticipates researching, developing, producing, testing, and marketing the Health & Aging: Understanding Alcohol Use program outlined in this proposal. This suite of coordinated materials will both address NIAAA's priority of informing "the elderly about specific age-related risks for alcohol problems" and serve an important and growing educational need in the public sector. In order to effectively address problems of older adults using alcohol, Terra Nova believes that education is a critical first step, and that a multi-tiered approach is required. The end-product proposed here consists of educational tools designed to meet the needs, comprehension levels, and learning styles of a variety of users. An online course will be developed for healthcare providers and other professionals involved in the care and treatment of older adults, as well as students of related disciplines. The course will offer continuing education credits, and provide the tools noted below for community outreach and service learning opportunities. Outreach tools will include an informative DVD, slide presentation, and print materials to educate not only the older adult but also family members, friends, caregivers, and others who may detect changes in an older adult's routine or behavior. With reported difficulties in diagnosing alcohol problems in older adult populations, caring individuals who regularly interact with members of this group can play critical roles in identifying alcohol-related symptoms. In addition, a public service announcement will be produced for broad dissemination of key information. Through the use of varied images, circumspect content, and multimedia formats (DVD, web, print, audio), the educational components will be designed to meet the unique needs and abilities of the diverse group of product end-users. Phase I work will include developing, in collaboration with expert consultants, detailed outlines and a single- topic prototype as follows: 1) a prototype module of the online course, uploaded to the Terra Nova e-Learning Center, 2) a storyboard depicting the elements, sequence, and design of the outreach DVD, 3) a prototype section of the slide presentation, 4) a prototype section of an informational booklet for older adults and caring others, and 5) a poster. Primary purchasers of the end-product include healthcare entities, physicians and other providers, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, libraries, pharmacists, local health departments, and substance abuse centers. Terra Nova expects to find a robust market for this innovative end-product in settings where professionals seek training about concerns in older populations, where students seek training on service learning with older groups, and where older adults and caring others will benefit from information about the risks associated with alcohol use among the aging. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The educational program Health & Aging: Understanding Alcohol Use will directly address the NIAAA priority of informing "the elderly about specific age-related risks for alcohol problems." The end-product will provide a critical public health service by informing key individuals, from healthcare professionals and students to family members and older adults, about negative, age-related effects of alcohol use. Through a suite of coordinated materials, delivered to users in a variety of formats and developed specifically with the comprehension level of each target audience in mind, the program will create a network of informed, supportive individuals who, by sharing information, will help raise the awareness of older adults about alcohol use and aging, helping to promote informed decision-making and a better quality of life. .