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• W273205833 abstract "The Alabama 'town and gown' model. Churches are often untapped resources to help the growing population of older adults to age well (Roff et al., 2006). Our Alabama town and gown model for organizing community-based, senior ministry associations relies primarily on harnessing the collaborative synergy between academic institutions and congregations. I discovered the possibilities for these types of collaborations as I began an academic career following my retirement from the United States Army, where I'd served as an officer in research and clinical practice duties and had completed a National Institute on Aging post-doctoral fellowship. In my new academic life, my goals were to contribute to the scientific knowledge base about successful aging and to promote successful aging and competent, compassionate elder caregiving in faith-based communities. My perspective is that the church is one of the best ways to reach elders and their families with state-of-the-science messages. I had come to the University of Alabama-a white man in a place where Sundays remain the most segregated day of the week. Yet, my primary help as I pursued my goals came from older mentors in African American and white churches. It was underserved elders who helped me to face the challenges of developing religious-academic partnerships. The challenges included dealing with religious bases of community power that blocked ecumenical work; pejorative thinking among academics about organized religion; resistance on both sides to town and gown collaborations; and institutional racism and ageism in both settings. As I experienced the love and forgiveness, of the older mentors, I began to see the staggering needs and the possibilities through their perspective of resilience. They served as living examples of how added years are a basis of hope and not despair. Through my experience with these mentors, I came to believe that partnerships between the church and academia, grounded in human relationships at a community level, can help to answer the demands and challenges of prolonged life. Religious Alabama, called the Buckle of the Bible Belt, displays some glaring hypocrisies but also offers opportunities to address some of the state's major problems. Alabama has some of the nation's highest rates of chronic disease and disability, high levels of congregational membership among older people, and two academic centers of aging that offer a suffident density of interdisciplinary researchers willing to partner with the church. THE ALABAMA TOWN-AND-GOWN MODEL The Alabama town-and-gown model involves the development of sustainable community-wide organizations that can be the focal point for healthy aging conferences, senior volunteer activities, cooperative ventures to protect older people in natural disasters, libraries with information about gerontological health, and links between a variety of church-based programs, on the one hand, and, on the other, research projects that promote evidence-based practices (e.g., falls prevention, proactive eldercare planning, driver assessment, caregiver support services) (Parker et al., 2007; Parker et al., 2004). The overall goal of our community-based model has been to promote ongoing partnerships that advance the status, purpose, and health of older people by promoting successful aging practices and by encouraging older members of faith-based communities to volunteer and to pursue positions of community leadership as an outgrowth of their faith. DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODEL Frameworks for successful aging that incorporate spirituality and evidence-based models of intervention designed for aging congregations have not been readily available (Crowther et al., 2002; Parker et al., 2002). As a result, much of what is known about how people age successfully is not being applied effectively by scientific and religious institutions. Our team of researchers and religious leaders believed that something good can come out of communities that acknowledge their faith, vulnerability, and diversity. …" @default.
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• W273205833 title "Building Partnerships with African American and White Churches to Promote a Good Old Age for All" @default.
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