Assignment: PERSONAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Project
For the Final Project, you evaluate your health and wellness by completing the assessments. Then, for the second part of this project, you create a Behavior Change Action Plan, including a timeline, for improving your health and wellness relating to those areas you assessed.
Project
5-6 pages: Not including title page and references Your Final Project must include the following elements:
Introduction:
- Summarize the insights you gained in relation to each assessment. Incorporate instructor feedback you received.
- Describe the goals of your Behavior Change Action Plan and your rationale for each goal.
Body:
- Explain each action you plan to take in relation to a dimension of health and your goals.
- Describe resources you need for each action including, but not limited to, people, places, and equipment.
- Explain potential obstacles to each action and your plan for avoiding and / or managing each obstacle.
- Describe the milestones of each action and the timeline by which each milestone is to be achieved.
- Describe your reward or how you will celebrate the achievement of each milestone.
Conclusion:
- Describe any concerns you have about your Behavior Change Action Plan or its implementation, including influencing factors.
- Describe how you plan to address your concerns.
Information on scholarly writing may be found in the APA Publication Manual (6th ed.), and at the Walden Writing Center website. Also see the Walden University Policies and Information, in Syllabus-II, under "Policies on Academic Honesty."
Readings
• Donatelle, R. J. (2013). Health: The basics, 10th edition. San Francisco, CA: Pearson Benjamin Cummings.
o Chapter 12, "Reducing Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer"
o Chapter 13, "Protecting against Infectious and Noninfectious Diseases"
o Chapter 14, "Preparing for Aging, Death, and Dying"
• Meetoo, D. (2008). Chronic diseases: The silent global epidemic. British Journal of Nursing (BJN), 17(21), 1320-1325.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Luepker, R. V. (2011). Cardiovascular disease: Rise, fall, and future prospects. Annual Review of Public Health, 32, 1-3.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
• Document: Final Project Guidelines (.pdf document)
Note: This document provides guidlines and requirements for your final project.
• Phelan, E. A., Anderson, L. A., LaCriox, A. Z., & Larson, E. B. (2004). Older adults' views of "successful aging" - How do they compare with researchers' definitions? Journal of The American Geriatrics Society, 52(2), 211-216.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Emanuel, L., Bennett, K., & Richardson, V. E. (2007). The dying role. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 10(1), 159-168.