Promoting Seniors' Health With Home Care Aides

HOME CARE CLIENTS Inclusion Criteria: * English or Spanish-speaking older adults aged 60+ * Receiving Illinois Department on Aging Community Care Program In-Home service from the collaborating home care agency * Able to sit in a chair independently for \>=15 minutes (it is fine if the person needs help with transferring to a chair) * Cognitive status sufficient to follow directions and respond to survey questions as determined by the Six-Item Screener (Callahan, et al., 2002) (the instrument used in the phone screening) and the Modified Mini-Mental State (3MS) Examination (the instrument used in the in-home screening) * Willing to be assigned to either intervention program * Willing to have the research team notify the primary care physician of the client's study participation Exclusion Criteria: * Having a legal guardian appointed * Bedridden or unable to sit in a chair independently * Receiving hospice care or having a terminal diagnosis * Self-reported inability to read large print books HOME CARE AIDES Inclusion Criteria: * English or Spanish-speaking home care aide caring for an older home care client eligible for the study * Age 18 and older * Willing to implement the intervention program routine with their eligible client(s) for the full 4 months * Willing to be randomly assigned to either intervention program * Intend to be a home care aide for the next 12 months Exclusion Criteria • Not having a home care client who participates in the study