Strategies and challenges for recruiting and retaining illiterate older adults with low socioeconomical levels in a non‐pharmacological trial: the PROAME study
Elisa de Paula França Resende, Clarisse Vasconcelos Friedlaender, João Victor de Faria Rocha, Ana Paula Zacarias, Joanna de Castro Magalhães Assenção, Emma Patrice Ruppert, Kelle Luisa dos Santos Tomaz, Lea T Grinberg, Paulo Caramelli, Francisca Izabel Pereira Maciel · 2025
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Elisa de Paula França Resende and co-authors published a research paper in 2025 on how to draw older adults who never learned to read into a health study in Brazil. Trials often skip such people, which skews what science learns. Their study, PROAME, tested whether schooling late in life can lift memory in this group.
The team partnered with public adult schools and gave talks on brain health to build trust. Group sessions helped people grasp the consent forms. From 2021 to 2022 they reached 130 older adults this way. Transport, trust, and fear of forms ranked among the chief barriers. The paper shares plain steps other teams can copy in poor areas.
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| CREATOR | Elisa de Paula França Resende, Clarisse Vasconcelos Friedlaender, João Victor de Faria Rocha, Ana Paula Zacarias, Joanna de Castro Magalhães Assenção, Emma Patrice Ruppert, Kelle Luisa dos Santos Tomaz, Lea T Grinberg, Paulo Caramelli, Francisca Izabel Pereira Maciel |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |