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Research Paper

Spinal Cord Injury

Aging Research & Geriatric Rehabilitation

Living Longer and Stronger with SCI: Using Participatory Research to Develop an Online Group Health Promotion Program for People Aging with SCI 1144

Friday, November 1, 2024

3:30 PM – 3:45 PM

Location: ROOM: De Soto A REGION: Tower Lobby Level >>> DIRECTIONS: From ACRM Registration desk, face the elephants and turn right. Proceed past the lobby elevators and turn right to enter the West Wing. Proceed down the corridor, turn right and then left. De Soto A is the second room on the right.

Presenting Author(s)

Susan Robinson-Whelen, PhD (she/her/hers)

Researcher
TIRR Memorial Hermann / Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States

Slides

Non-presenting Author(s)

Rosemary B. Hughes, PhD, PhD (she/her/hers)

Research Professor and Senior Research Scientist
University of Montana
Missoula, Montana, United States
Diana Gonzalez, BS, Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin (she/her/hers)

Research Assistant II
TIRR - Memorial Hermann
Galena Park, Texas, United States
Linda Norah-Davis, JD, Juris Doctorate

Senior/Community Advisor
None
Houston, Texas, United States
GP

Garett L. Parrish, MS

Research Assistant
TIRR
Houston, Texas, United States
Heather B. Taylor, PhD (she/her/hers)

Director, Spinal Cord Injury and Disability Research Center
TIRR Memorial Hermann
Houston, TX, United States

This presentation will describe the participatory approach used to develop Living Longer and Stronger with SCI (LLS), a group health promotion program for people aging with SCI; summarize the LLS program; and report on program evaluation data from a group people with SCI who beta-tested the intervention.

Learning Objectives:

Describe the issues and challenges facing people aging with SCI
Describe one model for engaging advisors, including people with lived experience with SCI, in developing a health promotion intervention program
Describe a program developed in partnership with community advisors to address the needs of people aging with SCI
Describe the issues and challenges facing people aging with SCI

Disclosure(s):

Susan Robinson-Whelen, PhD: No financial relationships to disclose

Rosemary B. Hughes, PhD, PhD: No financial relationships to disclose

Diana Gonzalez, Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin, BS: No financial relationships to disclose

Heather B. Taylor, PhD: No financial relationships to disclose