Older People's Preventive Care Utilization

"Design of booklet for older people's preventive care: We propose that the booklet will include 8 main topics based on what experts and current academic literature believe are important for encouraging older people's preventive care utilization. To add the social norms-related cues for the later three topics of the booklet, one qualitative study on older adults who are active in preventive care is needed. Therefore, we will interview \~20 older adults aged 70 years or above who are active in taking preventive care. We will conduct one-to-one in-depth interview to explore how participants overcome difficulties during decision making for vaccination and their positive feelings after making achievements. We will also explore and identify older adults who have a positive future perspective.~Patient activation sections: . Four undergraduate medical students will be trained as the coaches to deliver the patient activation sections over six weeks. Each section will be around 20 min."

"Participants in the control group will receive a pamphlet about recommendation for influenza, pneumococcal, and COVID-19 vaccines (if appropriate) for older people using information from Hong Kong Department of Health. As a control for the patient activation interviews, the control group will also be informed that they will join our telephone-based elderly care project by the end of the baseline assessment but instead of receiving the patient activation interviews, this group will receive six control telephone care visits over six weeks. Each control telephone care visit will be around 5-10 min during which the student helper will give general guidelines about dietary health and exercise for older people. The control messages are mainly educational and designed using information derived from the websites of Hong Kong Department of Health."