Multi-professional and multi-dimensional group education--a key to action in elderly persons.
Disabil Rehabil
; 35(5): 427-35, 2013 Mar.
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
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.METHOD:
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.RESULTS:
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.CONCLUSIONS:
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.
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Assunto principal:
Educação em Saúde
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Idoso Fragilizado
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Promoção da Saúde
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2013
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Article