STEHL Project – Smart Tablet Education for Healthy Living for Older Adults

The Region 6 SAGs, or State Advisory Groups, are one of two partnership types initiated in this five-year cooperative agreement with the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The purpose of Region 6 State Advisory Group (SAG) is to provide leadership guidance for their state’s outreach and engagement activities. Each SAG was assigned the task of guiding the development and implementation of an action plan that addresses how NNLM can support the specific health disparities which are identified as priorities with a focus on medically underserved populations. The Illinois SAG decided to offer the  Illinois SAG Outreach Award. The award closed 15 May 2023 and was awarded to the Northern Illinois University School of Nursing for the Smart Tablet Education for Healthy Living (STEHL) Project in the amount of $10,000. Primary Investigator (PI), Dr. Anitha Saravanan directed the project which was built upon a previous project funded by an NNLM and All of Us research award completed in April of 2023. This project engaged older adults at retirement facilities to help them become more comfortable with technology designed to assist them in finding quality health information online. Dr. Saravan and her team launched the project in August 2023, and below is the project’s story. We hope that others will be able to replicate this project throughout other retirement facilities in Illinois and beyond. Follow along for details of this exciting outreach project as described by Dr. Saravana...
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