Wellness
Transportation
Access: • Insurance and/or employer pays for fitness
Lack of access: Disabled Adults in Public Housing • Rely on public transportation, cabs, community resources, RADAR, or walk • No ramps on sidewalks prevent accessibility for wheel-chair bound residents Homeless Adults • Rely on public transportation, community resources, or walk
Access: • Own vehicles • Public transportation
Health literacy: • Stigma associated with mental health care • Lack of knowledge of community resources
Lack of access: • Psychiatry appointments • Limited affordable programs for the uninsured • Support groups for children taking care of aging parents
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12-step program Rely on self-management for stress Participants expressed a need “to talk to someone” Community services
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Family Service of Roanoke Valley 12-step program Psychiatrist
Home equipment Planet Fitness
Cab Car RADAR Valley Metro
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Value is not placed on wellness and prevention. Community does not
I use to go to the doctors. I don't have access to my car so I go wherever I can. I have seizures and the hospital took away my license and I do not have transportation.
I talk to my pastor.
I talk to my pillow.
It is hard because I do not have insurance and I go through depression.
Dementia support group needed. You are kind of on your own for elder care and dementia issues. I have been going to a support group at the Center for Healthy Aging. This is a growing issue of caring for parents
need.
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