The Great Plains Internet Wellness Study for Aging

Internet technologies have emerged as a platform for performing wellness interventions that also have wide outreach. Previous studies that have used the internet for delivering health interventions have found that older adults valued this platform, used it for researching health information and social communications. Likewise, the effectiveness of delivering health-related information intended for behavior change through the internet is equal to that of print-based delivery, thereby lowering costs and expanding reach. Thus, the internet provides a unique platform for conducting interventions. The internet based wellness intervention will be a low cost method focused on older adults to help increase intrinsic motivation through autonomy, competence, and relatedness (Intrinsic Motivation) to help increase daily physical activity.