Social marketing strategies for reaching older people with disabilities: findings from a survey of centers for independent living participants.
Centers for independent living (CILs) provide critical supports, services, and advocacy for assisting people with disabilities in living independently. As there is a rapidly increasing population of older people with disabilities, many CILs are now considering how to actively engage older adults in their organizations. This study utilized a survey of older people with disabilities to help identify social marketing techniques that community organizations like CILs can use to effectively reach older people with disabilities. Utilizing the components of the social marketing mix in designing outreach efforts, including a critical examination of product, place, price, participants, and partnering, CILs and other community agencies can better reach older adults with disabilities.
Moone
Rajean Paul
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Community Faculty, University of Minnesota School of Social Work, College of Education & Human Development, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA. moon0060@umn.edu
Lightfoot
Elizabeth
E
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D005260:Female; D006296:Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D040241:Social Marketing; D012947:Social Work / Q000458:organization & administration*