EHLE PROJECT TRAINING TOOLKIT: HANDBOOK ppt

[...]... Health Learning for Elderly (EHLE) 5 THE TRAINING CONCEPT a Conceptual Framework The goal of the EHLE project is to empower elderly people to make informed choices in the areas of health and lifestyle and to develop and communicate clear simple messages about food and healthy lifestyles This goal is based on the “patient empowerment approach”: to enable the patient (or in this project elderly people) to... found in our theoretical framework The use of a conceptual framework is important in projects and studies that would like to promote healthy lifestyles for several reasons Firstly, a framework helps to design the concept of the project in the sense that they help to consider which elements should be included in the project and why Secondly, it provides a good base for an evaluation of the intervention’s... attention to the social network that the elderly person is part of (the network of friendships, social and familial relationships) 17 Empowering Health Learning for Elderly (EHLE) b Methodological Techniques The methodological base of the EHLE project is the Behaviour Change approach according to which it is possible to induce a patient to change his or her dangerous or unhealthy behaviour by intervening on... for Elderly (EHLE) 6 TRAINING HEALTH PROFESSIONALS The Target Audience: is ideally between 30 35 workers or professionals from different professional areas The Structure is given by the three key phases of Problem Solving Treatment: 1 RISK COMMUNICATION (of risks of unhealthy lifestyles) 2 MOTIVATION (to change behaviour) 3 GOAL SETTING (creating SMART objectives) Equipment: A computer, projector and... physical health The correlation between healthy lifestyles and a better level of emotional health can be traced across all four populations with significant and 14 Empowering Health Learning for Elderly (EHLE) increasing effect as the variable being traced increases (eg in Fig.8) Fig 8: Correlation between average emotional health scores and the level of satisfaction with one’s diet In conclusion, even...Empowering Health Learning for Elderly (EHLE) 4 CONTEXT OF THE PERCEPTION ANALYSIS The Perception Analysis of own health and wellbeing was carried out on 1,200 people of over 55 years old The questionnaire administered included questions to... becomes collaboration between the person and the health worker The latter’s traditional role of expert advisor is less in evidence There are several strategies to increase patient empowerment In this project we believe that we can empower elderly people in 3 steps: 1) by communicating the risks connected to particular behaviours, 2) by motivating them to change and 3) by teaching them how to set SMART... towns (> 50,000 inhabitants), and only 3 4% from villages and rural areas In France almost 25% of those surveyed come from less densely populated rural areas 11 Empowering Health Learning for Elderly (EHLE) In general the subjects sleep for 6 8 hours a night (although about half do not consider their sleep satisfactory) Most do not smoke or have given up smoking, although Italy stands out with a higher... with these expectations; c) control beliefs: beliefs about the presence of factors that may facilitate, or may impede the performance of the behaviour, and the 16 Empowering Health Learning for Elderly (EHLE) perceived power of these factors These beliefs can lead, respectively, to a favourable or an unfavourable attitude towards a certain behaviour, perceived social pressure, and perceived behavioural... country of residence Fig 4: Alcohol consumption stratified by frequency and country of residence Fig 5: Frequency of physical activity stratified by country 12 Empowering Health Learning for Elderly (EHLE) The perception of one’s own physical health is, overall, good (60% positive or very positive and only 5% in decline, see Fig 6), a factor probably influenced by the fact that those interviewed come . 47     EmpoweringHealthLearningforElderly (EHLE)    6   1. PREFACE  This handbook isaguidetousingthe Training Packproducedbythe EHLE Project (Empowering Health. multiprofessional training toolkit which the project aimstocreate.     EmpoweringHealthLearningforElderly (EHLE)    9  THEPARTNERSHIP: EHLE Project Partners