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Healthy ageing in a salutogenic way: building the HP 2.0 framework
- Authors:
- LEZWIJN Jeanette, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 19(1), January 2011, pp.43-51.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The promotion of healthy ageing is difficult for a single agency because its determinants are influenced by a variety of interacting factors. As such, it requires an intersectoral approach. This article describes the development and possible applications of a framework for healthy ageing within a municipality in the Netherlands. This framework supports intersectoral collaboration by guiding and stimulating the development, implementation and evaluation of health promotion activities for healthy ageing. It is based on the principles of health promotion and on the theory of salutogenesis (an approach focusing on factors that support human health) and built upon three interrelated central concepts: sense of coherence; resources for health; and health. The framework visualises the interrelationships of the three concepts within health promotion and salutogenesis. This framework makes explicit the value and the contribution with respect to content of intersectoral collaboration and the participation of older people in health promotion. The relationships between the concepts of the framework also highlight the need to undertake different types of research and gather different kinds of data to first develop, then implement, and finally evaluate the various healthy ageing strategies available.
Stem the tide
- Authors:
- RAMSBOTTOM Helen, BRADLEY Mary
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 1.3.12, 2012, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
The floods in Cockermouth, Cumbria in 2009 resulted in GP surgeries affected by the flooding being relocated and transformed into a hub for health care in the community and a Centre for the Third Age. The Centre now provides integrated care for an ageing population and provides a single point of contact in the Cockermouth area to: coordinate the prevention agenda; promote independence; and improve overall health and wellbeing for older people. Using a preventive approach to meet older people's needs has also resulted in cost savings.
Health and ageing in Slovenia: literature review
- Authors:
- PAHOR Majda, DOMAJNKO Barbara
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing International, 32(4), December 2008, pp.312-324.
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Place of publication:
- New York
The study aims to establish whether professional and scientific literature in Slovenia provides grounds for the integrated approach in care for the elderly. Literature review is used as the method of data collection and analysis. Relevant publications were searched for through the national electronic interdisciplinary bibliographic database. Data was collected twice, for the period from 1994 to 2003 and from 2004 to 2006, to establish the publishing trend. A chart is drawn, based on a distinction among three levels: disciplinary, multi-interdisciplinary and the level of integration. It outlines the conceptualization of elderly people’s health as shaped through selected literature, and another one exposes its changes in time. Results show the prevalent presence of the functionalist theoretical perspective on ageing and the bio-medical model of care for the elderly. The voice of the elderly is poorly acknowledged. Data testify to the lack of literature that would support the implementation of the integrated approach to the health of the elderly.
Japan's search for a seamless care package: is the micro-multifunctional community facility providing total care for older people the answer? And would it meet the needs of an ageing population in the UK?
- Author:
- HAYASHI Mayumi
- Publisher:
- Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 7
- Place of publication:
- London
This case study takes a detailed look at the challenge of meeting the unprecedented demand for long-term healthcare and social care for Japan’s ageing population. It offers some fresh insights into recent and current measures taken, particularly the micro-multifunctional community facility for a total care package with some appreciation of both the impact and remaining challenges in this field. The micro-multifunctional facility model aims to provide core day care provision, planned and emergency day/overnight respite care, regular and on-demand health care, personal care and domestic support. Each facility caters for a maximum of 25 registered, eligible older people with various levels of assessed need still living at home in the local community. The paper argues that more evaluative evidence from the Japanese experience is required to determine whether similar models for total care packages would work in the UK. However, it notes that they could represent an answer to the increasing demand for home care and extra care provision. (Edited publisher abstract)
The many faces of health, competence and well-being in old age: integrating epidemiological, psychological and social perspectives
- Editors:
- WAHL Hans-Werner, et al, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 267p.
- Place of publication:
- Dordrecht
The main aim of this book is to provide an interdisciplinary treatment of a set of key issues in current ageing research: health, competence, and well-being. In addition the editors hope to identify priorities for future ageing research and to further new avenues for interdisciplinary approaches and social policy applications. The key topics are addressed based on three converging research streams: social-ecological research, which assumes that major processes and outcomes of ageing such as day-to-day competence are shaped by social and physical-spatial environments; geropsychology research, which is driven by a life-span developmental conception of ageing; and epidemiology, which offers fundamental disease, function and prevention-related data. Each of the three major research directions are outlined by a short introduction, followed by three chapters treating in an empirical manner the most recent key research questions. All chapters are then discussed by ageing experts. Topics covered include: the person-environment perspective, the home, mobility, loss of vision, marital support, gender roles, stress, depression, well-being, cancer, cardiovascular disease, medical care in nursing homes, and ageing research.
The choices, choosing model of quality of life: clinical evaluation and intervention
- Authors:
- GURLAND Barry J., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interprofessional Care, 23(2), March 2009, pp.110-120.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Two previous papers presented a conjectured model of quality of life featuring the personal management of accessing choices and choosing among them (the c-c process). Those papers made the case that this model unifies the pathways leading to impaired quality of life, especially with regard to age associated multiple co-morbidities, changes in perception and functioning, and the effects of long term care environments; it also introduces a science base for understanding and guiding interventions that can assist people to achieve their quality-of-life goals. This paper aims to outline interprofessional strategies that could relieve restrictions or distortions of the c-c process imposed by aging, ill-health, or a restricting environment. The authors do so by outlining potential deficits in the c-c process and matching these with restorative person-centred interprofessional interventions including interprofessional teamwork. Findings suggest that interprofessional assessment and team work is well suited to assisting the c-c process. It is concluded that the groundwork has been prepared for developing training programs and clinical trials for interprofessional interventions targeting the c-c process.
Setting priorities for gerontological social work research: a national Delphi study
- Authors:
- BURNETTE Denise, MORROW-HOWELL Nancy, CHEN Li-Mei
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 43(6), December 2003, pp.828-838.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
An increasingly important task for all disciplines involved in aging research is to identify and prioritize areas for investigation. This article reports the results of a national Delphi study on setting research priorities for gerontological social work. Delphi methodology, a structured process for eliciting and correlating informed opinions from a panel of experts on a specific topic, was used. A national expert panel of 46 gerontological social workers completed three successive Web-based questionnaires with controlled feedback to delimit a set of high-priority research topics. There were 49 independent research topics identified, 16 of which attained high or highest priority and high or moderate consensus ratings. The top-priority topic was developing and testing psychosocial interventions across specific populations and conditions. Three additional topics on intervention research achieved similar ratings, as did all four topics on services research. The research priorities identified by expert panelists in this study represent critical knowledge needs for the social work profession in aging, and they overlap and complement the current research agendas of the National Research Council and the National Institute on Aging. They are thus expected to help guide the development and prioritization of social work and interdisciplinary research to improve practice and policies affecting older adults and their families.
Directions in environmental gerontology: a multidisciplinary field
- Author:
- KENDIG Hal
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 43(5), October 2003, pp.611-615.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article considers developments and directions for environmental gerontology. The multidisciplinary field came of age during the 1960s with Powell Lawton's powerful environmental press paradigm and its applications to empirical research and building design. Recent theoretical developments in Europe and America have advanced and integrated concepts in psychology, geography, and related disciplines. Time dimensions and active use of space are essential for understanding aging individuals and microenvironments as well as changing populations and macroenvironments. Research on residential environments by health professions is informing community care that is enhancing the independence and well-being of older people. With its proven responsiveness to social and policy priorities, environmental gerontology is now providing strong conceptual and empirical bases for advancing healthy aging and age-friendly societies.
Responding to the challenges of ageing and dementia in intellectual disability in Ireland
- Authors:
- McCARRON M., LAWLOR B. A.
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 7(6), November 2003, pp.413-417.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The intellectual disability (ID) population in Ireland is ageing and the number of older persons with the dual disability of ID and dementia is increasing. In spite of these demographic trends, as in other countries adequate policy and service provision for this population are lacking. This paper draws upon data available on the population with ID and dementia, reviews both generic and ID specific literature, considers the policy context and argues for a specific model of service provision. A service model is proposed for the development of multidisciplinary specialist teams within ID, delivered through mobile regional ID dementia clinics.
Theory and practice in intergenerational work: a model for social change
- Authors:
- GRANVILLE Gillian, ELLIS Stephen
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 9(2), June 1999, pp.14-16.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
This article explains what occurs within intergenerational exchange and the theoretical framework that underpins it. Follows with a practical programme developed at Manchester Metropolitan University which demonstrates the partnership between education and gerontology and how a multidisciplinary partnership can widen the debate on ageing.