Telecaring via SMS, Promoting Health Situation of Older Clients in Soroush Daily Caring Centre, Shiraz

Background: The Soroush Daily Caring Centre was stablished in 2014 in Shiraz of Iran, is serving about 70 older adults (49 mfemales 21 males) which aimed to health promotion, reinforcing and developing intergeneration connection, educating healthy life style, increasing experiences of self-caring and autonomy, and effectiveness comunication to the community. The centre presents a valuable invironment to inhance opportunities of older adults, reinforcing culture issues on aging, rehabilitation, and holding educational sessions. Materials/Patients and Methods: This should include exact method or observation or experiment. If an apparatus is used, its manufacturer s name and address should be given in parenthesis. If the method is established, give reference but if the method is new, give enough information so that another author is able to perform it. If a drug is used, its generic name, dose and route of administration must be given. Statistical method must be mentioned and specify any general computer program used. The info system used should be clearly mentioned. Results: Recently, the Soroush centre is applying new technology on mobile health and modern communication via SMS and digital social networks i.e. Telegram chanel under Android OS. the educaitonal contents of which were sent to the clients include: healthy nutrition, medical notes, public information, health education and promotion, psychological patterns, everyday life issues, religious contents, and medical alarms. About three contents and news were sent to older members every nights when the majority of clients are at their home and can read the SMS and checking social networks. The contents format are simple text, audios, and videos. Conclusion: Avoid context and reference figure in the abstract. Name the author(s) respectively, indicating the effectiveness of the plan with font Times New roman 12pt Bold. Abstract should be prepared by Times New Roman font size 12pt. Place it with a distance of between 90mm and 120mm from top of the page. Keyword font should be prepared by Times New Roman 12pt Bold. Keywords should be minimum 3 and maximum 5 words separated by comma. Single line spacing after each paragraph 6 pt are selected and considered. A4 size page s margin should be approximately equal to up and down 25 mm, right 30mm and left 35 mm. The abstract should be written in a single column. Abstracts that are not in this form will not be considered.