For FY 2009, the Rural Health and Safety Education Programs will focus on issues related to aging in one or more of three areas:
1) population aging in rural areas; 2) eldercare or caregiving and its impact on rural and farm families; and/or 3) related issues of rural health care to provide older
individuals and families with:
Information as to the value of good health in an era of population aging; Information to increase the older adult individual or familys motivation take more responsibility for their own health; Access by older adults to health promotion and educational activities; Trained health and allied health professionals or paraprofessionals committed to rural health and care of aging population; and Training for volunteers and health services providers concerning health promotion and health care services for rural older adult populations, in cooperation with the Department of Health and Human Services.