Challenges: • High cost of living impacts healthy choices
Resources: • Food stamps • Homeless shelter
Health Literacy: • More value should be placed on healthy foods & exercise
Lack of access: Homeless Adults • Membership to a fitness facility cost prohibitive • Healthy foods- dependent on whatever food is available at the shelter
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facility membership • YMCA incentive (1/3 employer pays, 1/3 YMCA pays, 1/3 self-pay) for those who qualify • Virginia Premier helps to pay for membership Affordable fitness facilities • Planet Fitness ($10/month) Home exercise equipment Farmers’ Market provides Electronic Benefits Transfer for Food Stamps
West End Market YMCA
Wells Fargo (employer) tries to encourage prevention through our health insurance. You can get incentives if you do an online assessment. Also they will help with wellness visits and put money into an account for out of pocket expense.
Exercise will change your life! It will help with stress. Walking will help and make you healthy. Drinking water. The key to health is exercise.
The Rescue Mission does not have anything (food) for diabetics. They have only had stuff for me once.
I go to shops and the West End Market. I like it in the summer time because of the variety of produce.
Eating healthy costs more. There are so many people that can’t afford health foods.
practice wellness & prevention. Diabetes is preventable and need to focus on prevention. Food stamp recipients should be encouraged to buy healthy food. Junk food should not be allowed with SNAP.
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