Gezond ouder worden, hoe doen mensen dat? Bij Healthy ageing staat het gedrag dat bijdraagt aan een zo gezond mogelijk leven centraal. Het gaat hierbij vooral om het bevorderen van zelfredzaamheid en versterken van gezond gedrag.Bij professionals is er een groeiende behoefte aan inzichten over gezond ouder worden en aan interventies die dat ondersteunen. Healthy ageing gaat over de vraag hoe gezondheidsprofessionals gedrag kunnen bevorderen dat bijdraagt aan gezond ouder worden. Een belangrijk uitgangspunt is dat wat mensen nodig hebben om gezond te blijven of te worden, verandert gedurende de levensloop. Het boek bestaat uit twee delen. Het eerste deel gaat in op de inhoud en achtergronden van healthy ageing gedurende de levensloop. Er worden modellen en theorieën besproken die professionals kunnen inzetten bij de ondersteuning van gedragsverandering. Daarnaast is er aandacht voor e-health, interdisciplinair samenwerken en ethisch handelen. Het tweede deel behandelt de invloed van voeding, bewegen, slaap, stress en sociale interactie op gezond ouder worden. De nadruk ligt hierbij op de mogelijkheden om in de praktijk ondersteuning te bieden.Dit boek is geschreven voor studenten van hogere sociale studies en zorg- en (para)medische opleidingen. Het is ook geschikt voor professionals die zich bezighouden met gedragsveranderingen rond gezondheidsvraagstukken. Carina Wiekens geeft leiding aan de onderzoeksgroep Duurzaam Gedrag en is lector bij de Hanzehogeschool. Jan Jukema is lector Verpleegkunde bij hogeschool Saxion. Onder redactie van genoemde auteurs hebben vele experts van verschillende hogescholen een bijdrage geleverd aan het boek.
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As societies age, the development of resources and strategies that foster healthy ageing from the beginning of life become increasingly important. Social and healthcare professionals are key agents in this process; therefore, their training needs to be in agreement with societal needs. We performed a scoping review on professional competences for social and health workers to adequately promote healthy ageing throughout life, using the framework described by Arksey and O’Malley and the Joanna Briggs Institute Guidelines. A stakeholder consultation was held in each of the participating countries, in which 79 experts took part. Results show that current literature has been excessively focused on the older age and that more attention on how to work with younger population groups is needed. Likewise, not all disciplines have equally reflected on their role before this challenge and interprofessional approaches, despite showing promise, have not been sufficiently described. Based on our results, health and social professionals working to promote healthy ageing across the lifespan will need sound competences regarding person-centred communication, professional communication, technology applications, physiological and pathophysiological aspects of ageing, social and environmental aspects, cultural diversity, programs and policies, ethics, general and basic skills, context and self-management-related skills, health promotion and disease prevention skills, educational and research skills, leadership skills, technological skills and clinical reasoning. Further research should contribute to establishing which competences are more relevant to each discipline and at what level they should be taught, as well as how they can be best implemented to effectively transform health and social care systems.
Urban ageing is an emerging domain that deals with the population of older people living in cities. The ageing of society is a positive yet challenging phenomenon, as population ageing and urbanisation are the culmination of successful human development. One could argue whether the city environment is an ideal place for people to grow old and live at an old age compared to rural areas. This viewpoint article explores and describes the challenges that are encountered when making cities age-friendly in Europe. Such challenges include the creation of inclusive neighbourhoods and the implementation of technology for ageing-in-place. Examples from projects in two age-friendly cities in The Netherlands (The Hague) and Poland (Cracow) are shown to illustrate the potential of making cities more tuned to the needs of older people and identify important challenges for the next couple of years. Overall, the global ageing of urban populations calls for more age-friendly approaches to be implemented in our cities. It is a challenge to prepare for these developments in such a way that both current and future generations of older people can benefit from age-friendly strategies. CC-BY Original article: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15112473 https://www.dehaagsehogeschool.nl/onderzoek/lectoraten/details/urban-ageing#over-het-lectoraat
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Due to societal developments, like the introduction of the ‘civil society’, policy stimulating longer living at home and the separation of housing and care, the housing situation of older citizens is a relevant and pressing issue for housing-, governance- and care organizations. The current situation of living with care already benefits from technological advancement. The wide application of technology especially in care homes brings the emergence of a new source of information that becomes invaluable in order to understand how the smart urban environment affects the health of older people. The goal of this proposal is to develop an approach for designing smart neighborhoods, in order to assist and engage older adults living there. This approach will be applied to a neighborhood in Aalst-Waalre which will be developed into a living lab. The research will involve: (1) Insight into social-spatial factors underlying a smart neighborhood; (2) Identifying governance and organizational context; (3) Identifying needs and preferences of the (future) inhabitant; (4) Matching needs & preferences to potential socio-techno-spatial solutions. A mixed methods approach fusing quantitative and qualitative methods towards understanding the impacts of smart environment will be investigated. After 12 months, employing several concepts of urban computing, such as pattern recognition and predictive modelling , using the focus groups from the different organizations as well as primary end-users, and exploring how physiological data can be embedded in data-driven strategies for the enhancement of active ageing in this neighborhood will result in design solutions and strategies for a more care-friendly neighborhood.
Developing and realizing an innovative concept for the Active Aging campus in two years, where students, teachers, companies, residents of surrounding Campus neighborhoods will be invited to do exercise, sports, play, meet and participate. This includes, on the one hand, providing input with regard to a mobility-friendly design from an infrastructural perspective and, on the other hand, organizing activities that contribute to Healthy Aeging of the Zernike site and the city of Groningen. It is not only about having an Active Aging campus with an iconic image, but also about the process. In the process of realization, students, teachers, researchers, companies and residents from surrounding districts will be explicitly involved. This includes hardware (physical environment / infrastructure), software (social environment) and orgware (interaction between the two).
