University students’ perspectives on delivering health education interventions to underprivileged older adults in the community: a qualitative study of a large-scale community-based research project
Siu Long Chau, Wanjia He, Sophia Siu Chee Chan · 2025
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Siu Long Chau, Wanjia He, and Sophia Chan ask university health students how it felt to teach health topics to poor older adults at home. Their 2025 study sits inside a large Hong Kong project that trains future health workers through home visits. Book learning alone, the authors note, does not build skill with community elders.
Twenty students took hour-long interviews about their visits. Four themes stood out: limits of the elders' bodies and senses, the elders' mixed attitudes to advice, factors that shape how well elders take in health facts, and tactics that help. Some elders, students felt, had given up on seeking health facts, partly from a dim view of aging. Tailoring content to each elder's needs and readiness, the authors say, is the way to lift results.
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| CREATOR | Siu Long Chau, Wanjia He, Sophia Siu Chee Chan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 45 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |