09 Health Apps for Elderly (Course9-EN)
Units
Objectives
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To equip participants with the knowledge needed to identify relevant areas of healthy ageing and to make informed decisions about influencing ageing processes, regaining abilities or self-managing activities of daily living (ADL).
- To equip participants with the knowledge required to use apps as valuable tools for healthy and active ageing.
Competences
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Participants will be equipped with the skills to critically reflect their own lives or lives of loved ones to identify key areas of healthy ageing and to assess the potential of apps to address these.
- Participants’ skills will be enhanced in order to make informed decisions about app selection, as well as to reflect barriers and facilitators to usage in everyday life, if they wish so.
Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes
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9.1.1. General Information about ageingDuration: 20 minutes This introduction to general information about ageing will cover the following topics:
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9.1.2. Functional ability, key areas of Healthy ageing and activities of daily livingDuration: 30 minutes The specific content is demonstrated below:
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9.1.3 Health Apps for the Elderly and their benefitsDuration: 30 minutes Participants will be introduced to the most common characteristics:
Activity: The trainer will ask the participants to share if they have already had experiences with using health apps and how it helped them or not. Results are meant to be discussed with the group. Resources:
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9.1.4. Real-Life Integration ScenarioDuration: 20 minutes Participants will learn about:
Activity: Participants will then be divided into small groups and will be asked to identify areas of healthy ageing in their own life or in the lives of their relatives that could benefit from Health Apps, based on the aforementioned theoretical input. Conclusions will be shared with the group and awaited benefits will be noted down individually. This reflection of potential real-life benefits of Health Apps for healthy ageing will prepare the next step, i. e. the selection of Apps for the experiential training. If there is one common need in an area of healthy ageing among participants, the entire group can focus on it. Resources:
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9.1.5 Navigating Apps and evaluating potential benefitsDuration: 20 minutes In this unit the trainer will introduce an overview of available Health Apps for healthy ageing/ADL. Activity: The participants will be asked to explore different Health Apps and apply knowledge and reflection skills learned in the prior theoretical inputs. Particularly, participants will:
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9.1.6. Discussion and open questionsDuration: 20 minutes The trainer will encourage participants to present their own reflection of the most important key area of healthy ageing, the Health App chosen to improve this area, the awaited benefits as well as the identified support measures for consistent usage in everyday life. The trainer will encourage participants to ask questions related to all previous contents. Resources:
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9.1.7. Next steps, evaluation and ClosureDuration: 10 minutes Finally, the trainer will explain the next steps in the module, i. e. the experiential training activity and session as well as contents on the e-Training Platform. References and further readings will be displayed and the trainer will refer participants to these for better comprehension of module’s content. The evaluation questionnaire will be displayed. Resources:
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