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Educating for dignity: a multi-disciplinary workbook
- Author:
- DIGNITY AND OLDER EUROPEANS CONSORTIUM
- Publisher:
- Dignity and Older Europeans Consortium
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 93p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This study material was developed from an international research project 'Dignity and Older Europeans'. The material is derived from contributions from older people; health and social care professionals and other members of the public in the six countries which took part in the research UK (England and Wales), France, Ireland, Spain, Sweden and Slovakia. The learning activites are presented in four sections: Old Age - what does it mean?; Understanding Dignity; Dignity in care; and The impact of the system. Each section includes narratives based around the key themes that emerged from the study. The concluding section offers a brief discussion of the exercises and provides an overview of the main findings.
Dignity and the older European: policy recommendations
- Authors:
- EDGAR Andrew, NORDENFELT Lennart
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 6(2), July 2005, pp.17-20.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
The Dignity and Older Europeans Research Group had produced a series of recommendations on policy. The policy recommendations are inspired by the data gathered from focus groups, as well as by the theoretical reflections on the concept of 'dignity'. This article introduces four core policy recommendations. The first reflects the rights of the older person, the second calls for the removal of ageism and ageist practices, the third concerns the regulatory frameworks needs in service provision and the fourth reflects the welfare entitlements of older people.
Educating for dignity
- Authors:
- TADD Win, DIEPPE Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 6(2), July 2005, pp.4-9.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This paper describes the creation of the educational materials developed as part of the Dignity and Older Europeans Project. Following a discussion of the development process, the materials themselves are described. The materials include a poster of the dignity balance, which contains five core messages and illustrates the impact of both enhancing and violating individual dignity. The second product is a leaflet that also includes the dignity balance and lists of actions and approaches that will promote dignity or result in indignity. The final product to date is a multidisciplinary workbook, which is described in some detail. The workbook Educating for Dignity provides a brief outline of the theoretical model of dignity, and four different sections based on the empirical findings: understanding dignity, old age - what is it like to be an older person, dignity in care, and the impact of the system.
The role of professional education in promoting the dignity of older people
- Author:
- ASKHAM Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 6(2), July 2005, pp.10-16.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This paper considers the education of social and health care professionals who work with and care for older people. It asks whether education can promote the dignity of older people, how this may be done, what factors may ease or impede the promotion of dignity within professional education, and what part eduation plays alongside other influences on care practices. Beginning with consideration of research on the nature of professional education, the paper reviews principles of professional education, cultures and methods of teaching and learning and processes of practical apprenticeship. The paper argues that there are a number of challenges to the promotion of dignity within professional education, for example, inconsistencies in development of professional values, curriculum contradictions such as those between education for management and for direct care of older people, the balance between theory and practice and education for practice under changing real-world conditions.