The Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing has recently funded a new study, "Positive Ageing".
The Positive Ageing project aims to develop and evaluate a chronic disease self-management program tailored to the Vietnamese and Arabic speaking groups. We are currently recruiting people aged 50+ including Vietnamese and Arabic speaking people living in the City of Yarra and Hume-Moreland, respectively, to attend six sessions of ways to better manage your chronic disease risk factors. We would also like to hear from Vietnamese and Arabic speaking people who have had a positive experience with reducing their chronic disease risks and would like to be trained to help other people with similar health conditions.
If you are interested in participating in the Positive Ageing project as a peer educator or participant, please phone Ms. Xiaoping Lin at the National Ageing Research Institute (NARI) on (03) 8387 2609. Registration to become peer educators and participants of peer education sessions will be closed on Monday 18 January 2010.
Full report of this project will be made available in July 2010.
