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Multi-professional and multi-dimensional group education - a key to action in elderly persons

Author

  • Lina Behm
  • Lena Zidén
  • Anna Duner
  • Kristin Falk
  • Synneve Dahlin-Ivanoff

Summary, in English

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.

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Pages

427-435

Publication/Series

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volume

35

Issue

5

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Other Medical Sciences not elsewhere specified

Keywords

  • Elderly persons
  • health promotion
  • disease prevention
  • group education
  • multi-professional

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0963-8288