Educational Program for Promoting Collaboration Between Community Care Professionals and Convenience Stores
| Autor: | Ayumi Igarashi, Haruna Kugai, Manami Takaoka, Miho Suzuki, Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani, Hiroshige Matsumoto |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Health Personnel
media_common.quotation_subject Sense of community 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Japan 030502 gerontology Surveys and Questionnaires Perception medicine Humans Dementia Community Health Services 030212 general & internal medicine Aged media_common Medical education Commerce Proactivity medicine.disease Solidarity Social care Independent Living Geriatrics and Gerontology 0305 other medical science Psychology Delivery of Health Care Gerontology Educational program |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Applied Gerontology. 39:760-769 |
| ISSN: | 1552-4523 0733-4648 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0733464819871878 |
| Popis: | Convenience stores play an important role in supporting community-dwelling older adults’ lives. This study aimed to describe the development of and to evaluate an educational program to promote collaboration between communities and convenience stores in Japan. We developed the educational program based on interviews of convenience store staff to encourage them to collaborate with health/social care professionals for helping older adults. We conducted pre- and post-program questionnaire surveys of 184 participants to evaluate the program. After the program, the total score for attitudes toward dementia ( p = .010) improved significantly among the convenience store staff. On the contrary, the score for “solidarity and proactiveness,” a subscale for sense of community, improved significantly among health/social care professionals ( p = .003). This educational program can have a significant effect on the perceptions and attitudes for supporting older adults, depending on the participants’ occupations. This educational program could foster community networks, leading to an age-friendly community. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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