Using elderly educators to increase colorectal cancer screening.

This article reports on the elderly educator method, a practical and economical intervention that was used for increasing the rate of return of fecal occult blood sampling in colorectal screening among 171 socioeconomically disadvantaged older persons. Two methods that used elderly educators had an overall response rate of more than 60%. Logistic regression shows a statistically significant difference between two methods that used elderly educators and two methods that did not.