Multi-professional and multi-dimensional group education – a key to action in elderly persons
| Autor: | Synneve Dahlin-Ivanoff, Kristin Falk, Lena Zidén, Lina Behm, Anna Dunér |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
Gerontology
Program evaluation Activities of daily living Frail Elderly education Health Promotion Interviews as Topic Social support Quality of life (healthcare) Nursing Intervention (counseling) Activities of Daily Living Humans Medicine Cooperative Behavior Health Education Aged 80 and over business.industry Rehabilitation Social Support Focus Groups Focus group humanities Health promotion Action (philosophy) Quality of Life Female business Program Evaluation |
| Zdroj: | Disability and Rehabilitation. 35:427-435 |
| ISSN: | 1464-5165 0963-8288 |
| DOI: | 10.3109/09638288.2012.697249 |
| Popis: | This study was intended to evaluate a multi-professional health-promoting and disease-preventive intervention organized as multi-professional senior group meetings, which addressed home-dwelling, independently living, cognitively intact elderly persons (80±), by exploring the participants' experiences of the intervention.The focus group methodology was used to interview a total of 20 participants. The informants had participated in four multi-professional senior group meetings at which information about the ageing process and preventive strategies for enhancing health were discussed.The overall finding was that the elderly persons involved in the intervention lived in the present, but that the supportive environment together with learning a preventive approach contributed to the participants' experiencing the senior meetings as a key to action.Elderly persons who are independent may have difficulty accepting information about preventing risks to health. However, group education with a multi-professional approach may be a successful model for achieving an exchange of knowledge, which may possibly empower the participants, give them role models, the opportunity to learn from each other and a sense of sharing problems with people in similar circumstances. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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