Co-Learning with Home Care Aides and Their Clients: Collaboratively Increasing Individual and Organizational Capacities

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• Personal Author:
  Berbaum ML ; Cruz Madrid K ; Henderson VA ; Jurivich DA ; Madrigal J ; Marquez DX ; Muramatsu N ; Zanoni J
• Description:
  Changes in health care provide unprecedented opportunities for collaboration across research, education, and practice for the common goal of enhancing the well-being of older adults and their caregivers. This article describes how a pilot project, Promoting Seniors' Health with Home Care Aides, has synergistic education, research, and practice effects that enhance individual and organizational capacities. This pilot is an innovative partnership with home care aides to deliver a safe physical activity program appropriate for frail seniors in a real-life public home care program. The intervention and research occur in older adults' homes and thus provide rare opportunities for the research team and partners to learn from each other about dynamics of home care in older adults' life contexts. Co-learning is essential for continuous quality improvement in education, research and practice. The authors propose to establish "teaching home care" to ensure ongoing co-learning in gerontology and geriatrics. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Education Health Personnel Home Care Services Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Physical Activity Collaboration Community-based Long-term Care Continuous Quality Improvement Health Care Workers Home Care Home Health Care Intervention Effectiveness Physical Exercise Teaching Home Care Team

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• ISSN:
  0270-1960
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  261-277
• Volume:
  36
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063524
• Citation:
  Gerontol Geriatr Educ 2015 Jul-Sep; 36(3):261-277
• Contact Point Address:
  Naoko Muramatsu, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Email:
  naoko@uic.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  University of Illinois at Chicago
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Gerontology & Geriatrics Education
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c67c6216ce76a0480a8cb450b958736fd14563fe7f0870b50a732e2321d8ac5aa0658f231b883341f3542d43b49189279ae92776abe866b56ae2bdeb7d3bf6f1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/222114/cdc_222114_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 394.68 KB ]