SIENHA Project - Strategic and Innovative European Network for Education in Healthy Aging: project update

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Using capstone approach to develop a curriculum in healty ageing: SIENHA Project

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Professional competences to promote healthy ageing across the lifespan: a scoping review

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 refected on their role before this challenge and interprofessional approaches, despite showing promise, have not been sufciently 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 efectively transform health and social care systems.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Promoção de competências para o envelhecimento saudável: projeto SIENHA

Introdução: Face aos desafios sociais e de saúde de uma população em envelhecimento, é necessário a atualização das políticas sociais e de saúde na Europa (WHO, 2020; Rudnicka, 2020). O paradigma do Envelhecimento Saudável (HA) sublinha a necessidade de inovação nos sectores educativo, de saúde e social e a devida formação dos profissionais implicados. Objectivos: O projecto Strategic Innovative Educational Network for Healthy Ageing (SIENHA) - www.sienha.eu, visa desenvolver educação a nível superior e o desenvolvimento de competências em estudantes e profissionais dos sectores de saúde e social na Europa. Este projeto envolveu uma cooperação académica multilateral ao longo de 36 meses entre sete Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES) europeias, e foi financiado pelo programa ERASMUS+. Material e Métodos: Foram estabelecidos quatro principais resultados intelectuais: 1) Identificação de um quadro de competências profissionais em HA; 2) Desenvolvimento de um currículo de ensino superior; 3) Criação de um kit de ferramentas para inovação e investigação em HA; e 4) Produção de uma ferramenta de disseminação, um Manual em Envelhecimento Saudável. Com base numa revisão exploratória, foram estabelecidas listas de competências fundamentais e desenvolvido as estratégias de avaliação e o programa de estudos. Foi também elaborado um kit de ferramentas com vista à aplicação de investigação de implementação e estratégias pedagógicas inovadoras. Resultados: O projeto culminou na identificação de competências relevantes, na conceção de um kit de ferramentas baseado nas melhores práticas e na criação de um currículo educacional centrado no envelhecimento saudável ao longo da vida. Este currículo foi concebido para melhor preparar os profissionais de saúde e sociais, incluindo fisioterapeutas, promovendo a saúde e bem-estar ao longo da vida. Conclusões: O projeto SIENHA proporciona uma abordagem integrada e estratégica para enfrentar os desafios do envelhecimento saudável na Europa, trazendo inovações na formação e prática profissional. Esta colaboração pode representar um avanço significativo para a melhoria da formação e preparação de profissionais nos sectores de saúde e social na Europa.N/

Defining a competency framework for health and social professionals to promote healthy ageing throughout the lifespan: an international Delphi study

Abstract Purpose: The promotion of healthy ageing has become a priority in most parts of the world, and it should be promoted at all ages. However, baseline training of health and social professionals is currently not adequately tailored to face these challenges. This paper reports the results of a Delphi study conducted to reach expert agreement about health and social professionals’ competencies to promote healthy ageing throughout the lifespan within the SIENHA project. Materials and Methods: This study was developed following the CREDES standards. The initial version of the competence framework was based on the results of a scoping review and built following the CanMEDS model. The expert panel consisted of a purposive sample of twenty-two experts in healthy ageing with diverse academic and clinical backgrounds, fields and years of expertise from seven European countries. Agreement was reached after three rounds. Results: The final framework consisted of a set of 18 key competencies and 80 enabling competencies distributed across six domains. Conclusions: The SIENHA competence framework for healthy ageing may help students, and educators, to enrich their learning, and the academic content of their subjects or/and programmes and incentivize innovation.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio