Healthy ageing education across Europe: a survey of ENPHE members

Background and Purpose Healthy ageing is an optimal status that people could achieve when they currently adapt their physical and psychological evolution that allow them to participate socially with a high level of autonomy. The process of becoming older is a personal process that can be very heterogeneous. This heterogeneity generates different approaches depending on the needs, capacities of adaptation and subject possibilities. Therefore, it is important that any kind of intervention should adapt specifically to each patient. Description With the goal to develop and offer updated education in Healthy Ageing, a group of five universities: Ecole d’Assas (France), Blanquerna-Universitat Ramón Lull (Spain), Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci (Czech Republic), Kolegji Heimerer (Kosovo) and Escola de Saúde do Alcoitão (Portugal) decided to set up a joint adventure as encouraged by ENPHE. Our first step is to benchmark and characterise within Europe the tendencies, the offers and models of best practices. Material / Methods An online questionnaire was developed and sent to all the ENPHE members between January and February of 2017. The survey was composed of twenty close and open questions related to the participant identification, course description and identification of institutional projects in healthy ageing Summary of Results From a population of 136 EMPHE member's we receive 39 complete responses (27%) and the main results are: 69% of the respondents offer courses about healthy ageing; 88% Integrated in the bachelor degree ; mainly for Physiotherapists students (92%); and with the most prevalent topics (above 80%) - Assessment and intervention of clients/populations, multidisciplinary issues and Prevention; the main pedagogical approaches used are lectures (88%), clinical training/field work (77%) and casebased learning (74%); being written or oral examination (81%) the main assessment strategies used. Importance It is very important to empower the individual to become autonomous in deciding how to manage their own ageing process in a healthy way. Any curricula should take in account this reality in order to transform the role of health care professionals and provide them competences to support individuals in this process.N/

Etude de la marche des amputes du membre inferieur, d'origine vasculaire, a un stade precoce de la reeducation. (Study of the gait of vascular lower limb amputees, in the early stages of rehabilitation)

Study of the gait of vascular lower limb amputees, in the early stages of rehabilitation

At Home and Abroad: An Empirical Analysis of Innovation and Diffusion in Energy-Efficient Technologies

This paper contributes to the induced innovation literature by extending the analysis of supply and demand determinants of innovation in energy-efficient technologies to account for international knowledge flows and spillovers. In the first part of the paper we select a sample of 38 innovating countries and we study how knowledge related to energy-efficient technologies flows across geographical and technological space. We demonstrate that higher geographical and technological distances are associated with a lower probability of knowledge flow. In the second part of the paper, we use our previous estimates to construct stocks of internal and external knowledge for a panel of 17 countries and present an econometric analysis of the supply and demand determinants of innovation accounting for international knowledge spillovers. Our results confirm the role of demand-pull effects, as proxied by energy prices, as well as that of technological opportunity, as proxied by the knowledge stocks. In particular, this paper provides evidence that spillovers between countries have a significant positive impact on further innovation in energy-efficient technologies