Building and Sustaining Aging in Place Through the Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (NORC) Ambassadors Program.

Autor:	Meschino L; Lisa Meschino, is a curriculum development lead in the NORC Innovation Centre (NIC) at University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto, ON. Lisa has a unique background in business leadership, higher education and research that focuses on relational skills development and older adults., Recknagel J; Jen Recknagel, is the director of innovation and design in the NIC at UHN in Toronto, ON. Jen is a human-centred designer who is leading an innovation program aimed at reimagining support systems for older adults to age in place, with a strong emphasis on older adult leadership., Bartleman S; Susan Bartleman, is a NORC coordinator in the NIC at UHN in Toronto, ON. Susan is a lifelong learner who acts as a bridge between senior residents and community agencies to find innovative aging-in-place solutions., Dai A; Allie Dai, is a research analyst in the NIC at UHN in Toronto, ON. Allie's interests are in patient partnership, community service, healthcare research, social innovation, aging research and innovation and AI technologies., Hahn-Goldberg S; Shoshana Hahn-Goldberg, is an evaluation lead in the NIC at UHN and an assistant professor (status) in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto in Toronto, ON. Shoshana's research uses mixed methods that span and combine techniques from industrial engineering and user-centred design in order to improve health system processes, quality and experiences.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Healthcare quarterly (Toronto, Ont.) [Healthc Q] 2024 Jul; Vol. 27 (2), pp. 62-69.
DOI:	10.12927/hcq.2024.27428
Abstrakt:	Older adults overwhelmingly want to continue to age in place but would benefit from a community of support to do so. The Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (NORC) Ambassadors program - an initiative from University Health Network (UHN) OpenLab - uses a participatory approach to create sustainable, resident-led, aging-in-place groups in NORC buildings. NORC, which stands for Naturally Occurring Retirement Community, is a geographic designation used to describe an area, such as a building or a neighbourhood that has become home to a large number of older adults. Having a high concentration of older adults, NORCs are ideal settings for mobilizing communities and developing supportive networks. This article describes the creation and evaluation of the NORC Ambassadors program, which led to its inclusion as a foundational element of the model being implemented through the newly founded NORC Innovation Centre at the UHN. (Copyright © 2024 Longwoods Publishing.)
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