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01-06-2014 | letter to editor
Harnessing the potential of older adults to measure and modify their environments: long-term successes of the Neighborhood Eating and Activity Advocacy Team (NEAAT) Study
Authors:
Sandra J Winter, Matthew P Buman, Jylana L Sheats, Eric B Hekler, Jennifer J Otten, Cathleen Baker, Dominique Cohen, Brent A Butler, Abby C King
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Translational Behavioral Medicine
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Issue 2/2014
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Excerpt
A previously published case study by Buman et al. (2011) in
Translational Behavioral Medicine described the Neighborhood Eating and Activity Advocacy Team (NEAAT) Study, in which an ethnically diverse group of older low-income “citizen scientists” received advocacy and skills training to empower them to collaboratively gather, review, prioritize, and disseminate data about features of their neighborhood environment that help or hinder active living and healthy eating [
1]. Although active involvement by the NEAAT Study research team ended in 2011, the older adult citizen scientists have continued to use the team-oriented engagement skills they learned during the initial phases of this study to advocate for improvements in their neighborhood and to partner with key allies, including local policy makers. …
