Health Education for the Elderly
Ayla Kececi and Serap Bulduk
Duzce University/ Vocational School of Health Services,
Turkey
1. Introduction
Health promotion and wellness are a great responsibility, particularly for all health care
providers who work with elderly people. Some health care providers claim that because of
their age, activities pertaining to prophylactic measures, health and wellness maintenance
will not be helpful to elderly people. On the contrary, wellbeing should not be regarded as a
concept specifically relevant to younger individuals. The wellness concept is applicable to
every age from older adults to the young (Reicherter & Greene, 2005; Tabloski, 2010).