Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Disabil Rehabil. 2013 Mar;35(5):427-35. doi: 10.3109/09638288.2012.697249. Epub 2012 Jul 17.
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.
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.
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.
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.
本研究旨在评估一种多专业的健康促进和疾病预防干预措施，该措施以多专业老年小组会议的形式组织，针对的是居家、独立生活、认知功能正常的老年人（80±），通过探索参与者对干预措施的体验来实现。
采用焦点小组方法对总共 20 名参与者进行了访谈。这些知情者参加了四次多专业老年小组会议，会上讨论了关于衰老过程和增强健康的预防策略的信息。
总体发现是，参与干预的老年人活在当下，但支持性环境以及学习预防方法有助于参与者将老年会议视为行动的关键。
独立的老年人可能难以接受有关预防健康风险的信息。然而，采用多专业方法的小组教育可能是一种成功的模式，可以实现知识交流，这可能使参与者获得授权、榜样、相互学习的机会，并感受到与处于类似情况的人分享问题的快乐。
