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Dr. Kristi Wick is a UC Foundation assistant professor and Vicky B. Gregg Chair in Gerontology. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

Older adults living in rural Tennessee counties are at a higher risk for developing chronic diseases, cognitive disorders and poor health outcomes due to a lack of access to health care, continuity of treatment and resources.<\/p>\n

A grant awarded to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga School of Nursing aims to mitigate those risks by delivering health care and social services professionals to rural communities.<\/p>\n

The School of Nursing has been awarded $2.6 million from the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) for a project titled ROAD MAP, an acronym for Rural Health and Older ADult Interprofessional Mobile HeAlth Program.<\/p>\n

The grant is from TDH\u2019s Healthcare Resiliency Program (HRP), which is making $119 million in funding available to 41 eligible applicants\u2014including the School of Nursing\u2019s ROAD MAP request. HRP funding was approved as part of the Tennessee Resiliency Plan, created in March 2022 by Tennessee\u2019s Financial Stimulus Accountability Group.<\/p>\n

ROAD MAP funding will enable the purchase of a mobile health vehicle that will regularly visit rural Southeast Tennessee senior centers offering education, health promotion, health screening, primary care and social services to older adults.<\/p>\n

The initiative seeks to improve access to health care and raise awareness of chronic disease management. Long-term objectives include lowering caregiver stress, increasing community resource use, reducing emergency room visits and decreasing social isolation for older adults.<\/p>\n

Dr. Kristi Wick, UC Foundation assistant professor and Vicky B. Gregg Chair in Gerontology, and Vice Provost Shewanee Howard-Baptiste are co-principal investigators on the grant-funded project, leading a ROAD MAP team that includes Dr. Sarah Treat (School of Nursing), Dr. Latisha Toney (School of Nursing), Dr. Amir Alakaam (Master of Public Health), Dr. Erin Melhorn (Occupational Therapy) and Dr. Cathy Scott (Social Work).<\/p>\n

Wick said the mobile health vehicle would serve older adults and caregivers in the Southeast Tennessee Area Agency on Aging and Disability district\u2014Bledsoe, Bradley, Grundy, Hamilton, Marion, McMinn, Meigs, Polk, Rhea and Sequatchie counties\u2014by bringing interprofessional health care into underserved areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of these counties are rural,\u201d Wick said, \u201cand they have older adults who don\u2019t have access to a lot of the resources that we do. Some of the counties don\u2019t have hospitals or emergency departments.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe senior centers in these counties are a great point of contact for us. They have good relationships with the older adults in their community. This is a great opportunity for us to work alongside the staff and support their programs and services.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to a Tennessee Rural Health Care Task Force report released in June, 22 Tennessee counties do not have local hospitals\u2014and 13 rural hospitals have closed since 2010.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Tennessee placed 40th in the category ranking of healthiest states for older adults according to the United Health Foundation\u2019s 2023 Senior Report, which provides a portrait of the health and well-being of older adults across the U.S.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing able to bring specific services for older adults to a rural community will be huge,\u201d Wick said. \u201cEven something as simple as providing information about home modifications\u2014like the importance of a ramp or shower chairs to help prevent falls will allow people to stay safely in their homes longer.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting out to those rural, vulnerable adults \u2026 there\u2019s definitely a gap in services and there\u2019s definitely plenty of opportunities to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wick said there are steps to follow in procuring and contracting the mobile health unit. It will be customized to allow for specific services such as the ability to equip the mobile vehicle with telehealth so that people \u201cmay be able to use telehealth for their visits with their neurologist or different specialists\u2014saving them from having to drive two hours to get to Hamilton County.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ROAD MAP project, she said, is to drive into rural communities weekly\u2014and possibly more\u2014during the school year. In the meantime, while the mobile vehicle is being acquired, plans are to establish a community advisory committee with stakeholders from each of those counties.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnytime we have the opportunity to learn from local residents and community organizations, we achieve far more than if we attempt to provide support on our own. We\u2019ll visit those counties, and our goal will be to recruit local participants for an advisory committee and do all the listening and planning work right up front so that as soon as the mobile health vehicle is ready, we\u2019ll be able to start moving,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat does two things for us: It helps us establish what the actual needs are for each community and it helps build trusted collaborative relationships so that we can work together to engage the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wick fondly spoke about crisscrossing the state in rental vehicles and \u201cgetting whatever we can get in a car\u201d while performing field work with programs such as COVID testing and her current engAGING Communities Tennessee<\/a><\/strong> initiative.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing able to take a bus where we could do a hearing evaluation or an eye exam or some memory testing with space for people to come in and sit down is just going to be awesome,\u201d she said, \u201cand as an added bonus, UTC\u2019s information will be all over it to hopefully recruit people into our health programs, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said potential benefits also include increased interprofessional collaboration and workforce development through clinical placements.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are going to see us out in the community,\u201d Wick said, \u201cand we can do events or programs to demonstrate, in real time, what each profession does to serve others. I\u2019m so excited about it. I think it\u2019s going to be great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Learn More<\/h4>\n

Visit UTC<\/a><\/p>\n

School of Nursing<\/a><\/p>\n

Gerontology<\/a><\/p>\n

Health and Human Performance<\/a><\/p>\n

Occupational Therapy<\/a><\/p>\n

Social Work<\/a><\/p>\n

How to apply<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Older adults living in rural Tennessee counties are at a higher risk for developing chronic diseases, cognitive disorders and poor health outcomes due to a lack of access to health care, continuity of treatment and resources. A grant awarded to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga School of Nursing aims to mitigate those risks by delivering health care and social services professionals to rural communities.<\/p>\n

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