Promoting Healthy Aging Initiatives

PEARLS —Program to Encourage Active, Rewarding Lives

The Program to Encourage Active, Rewarding Lives (PEARLS) is a community program to treat older adults with disabilities who also cope with minor depression. PEARLS is an outgrowth of a five-year research project conducted in collaboration with the University of Washington’s Health Promotion Research Center.

The study showed that home-based depression management counseling significantly reduced symptoms of depression and improved the health of chronically medically ill older adults with minor depression.

PEARLS has been available to case management clients of the Area Agency on Aging in King County since 2001. The 2012 budget is approximately $287,000 and includes funding from the King County Veterans & Human Services Levy.

For more information, read the PEARLS flier.

Information

For more information about this program:

• Read the Journal of the American Medical Association article published in April 2004.
• Call Aging & Disability Services in the Seattle Human Services Department at 206-684-0660 or e-mail aginginfo@seattle.gov.

Seattle Human Services Department
Street address: 700 5th Avenue, Suite 5800, Seattle, WA 98104
Mailing address: PO Box 34215, Seattle, WA 98124-4215

Phone: 206-386-1001
Fax: 206-233-5119
TTY/TTD: 206-233-2778

Accommodations for people with disabilities provided upon request.