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Teaching Healthy Eating to Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes

Teaching Healthy Eating to Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes. Madeleine Holmes, Megan Lennox, Caitlin Willett (AUSON) Jessica Hamner , Elizabeth Stedman (HSOP). Description of Notasulga. Rural town 14 square miles Downtown Community health center City hall

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Teaching Healthy Eating to Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes

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  1. Teaching Healthy Eating to Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Madeleine Holmes, Megan Lennox, Caitlin Willett (AUSON) Jessica Hamner, Elizabeth Stedman (HSOP)

  2. Description of Notasulga • Rural town • 14 square miles • Downtown • Community health center • City hall • Small town identity present • Nearest hospital is EAMC (30 minutes away)

  3. Description of Notasulga (cont.) • Houses • Churches • Baptist (2) • Methodist • Election for mayor taking place • Most seniors congregate at Senior Center or downtown

  4. History of Notasulga • Birth place of author, Zora Neale Hurston • Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church and Rosenwald School were used as meeting and testing centers for the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. • Mayor and 5 city council members

  5. Notasulga Data • 916 people • Median age is 40 • Greatest proportion of population is between 45 and 64. • Median income: $31,307 • 34.1% are high school graduates • Primary occupations include construction, farming and Vulcan Quarry workers

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