Measuring incentives to health promotion in older adults. Understanding neglected health promotion in older adults.

Health promotion increases longevity and allows older persons to maintain an independent and satisfying life. Determining reasons why an older person participates in health promotion activities through incentives may allow further insight into ways to promote health. As deeper understanding of motivation is gained by health professionals, successful influences to health behavior may be clarified. A nurse's role in health promotion could be to assist in planning a health promotion program, especially after incentives have been identified for a particular person. The Incentive-Health Promotion Scale revealed that the major incentives to health promotion in study sample were "feel good" and "fitness and health".