Thanks to all of you who have participated in this thread. However, I still have doubts that I'm really making my point and getting it across.

Effectively motivating elders to change in some cases lifelong health-related habits has got to be very difficult. To the extent that many family doctors may well have given up.

What I'm looking for, seeking after, trying to research here are the successful motivational keys to energizing seniors to change bad habits that themselves may well have very positive value for the seniors involved. They sure do for me.

Lots of people in lots of places have got to be thinking and talking and writing about this. I would most appreciate your copying down location information if and when you come across it in the most serious, scientific, studies of effective health motivation, and telling us about it here.

I'm out there searching the internet and will report back when I find things. I'd appreciate your doing the same.

Take care!