Discovering intergenerativity: an evaluation of learning partnerships between student nurses and older adults

Reitmaier, Amy B; Davies, Susan; Smith, Linda Reveling; Mangan-Danckwart, Deborah; Hongerholt, Kayla; Klinkner, Jacqueline

doi:10.1111/opn.12061

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“…Relatively fewer studies have assessed older adults’ perceptions, attitudes, and health changes after HP student clinical or educational interventions. Programs described in the literature involve students in nursing ( du Plessis et al, 2013 ; Latimer & Mezey, 2001 ; Livsey et al, 2020 ; Reitmaier et al, 2015 ), physical therapy ( Vincenzo & Patton, 2021 ), dentistry ( Hjertstedt et al, 2014 ; Northridge et al, 2017 ), and medicine ( Liang En et al, 2011 ). Additional studies represent collaborative efforts between students of different disciplines: Medical and nurse practitioner students ( Kaplan et al, 2017 ; Kata et al, 2018 ); exercise physiology, physical therapy, nursing, and nutrition students ( Seymour & Cannon, 2010 ); and nursing, nutrition, and pharmacy students ( Lee et al, 2013 ).…”

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Impact of an Interprofessional Health Student Education Program on Older Adult Participants

Rodgers

Segal‐Gidan

Reilly

2022

Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine

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Training health professional students to work with older adults will improve future workforce capacity to meet growing needs. Additionally, older adults may benefit from health education and interactions with health professional students. We analyzed survey responses from older adults who had participated in an interprofessional health student education program regarding their experiences. Qualitative data were summed and averaged, and quantitative survey data were analyzed with Fisher’s Exact Test. At least 60% of participants reported receiving information for health needs or making changes to physical activity, dental care, or diet. The most significant differences in lifestyle modifications were noted among racial and ethnic minorities and among speakers of different primary languages. 64% of the qualitative responses reflected positive affirmation of the program. Our data suggest that interactions with health students are meaningful experiences for older adults, are associated with healthy habit changes, and reflect demographic differences in response to health education.

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Impact of an Interprofessional Health Student Education Program on Older Adult Participants

Rodgers

Segal‐Gidan

Reilly

2022

Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine

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“…Growing numbers of elders and age-associated comorbidities, especially dementia, have become a challenge for nursing students because they have to learn how to communicate with these patients effectively [7][8][9][10][11]. Therefore, the development of relational skills during clinical training in institutions that care for elders is essential for preparing this new generation of professionals.…”

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“…It is important to change the attitudes of these nursing students towards caring for cognitively impaired elders to ensure that they will have improved practices as future nurses. This development will boost a differentiated care strategy capable of responding to complex chronic health needs associated with aging [9][10][11][12].…”

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“…Studies show that undergraduate programs should include elder care training in a more methodological and systematized way [9][10][11][12][13][14]. Therefore, nursing students should develop a care relationship with elders, especially those with dementia, and they should also be provided with methodologies to operationalize and systematize the relationship according to scientific and ethical principles.…”

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Nursing Students’ Relational Skills with Elders Improve through Humanitude Care Methodology

Melo

Queirós

Tanaka

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IJERPH

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Nursing students have difficulties interacting with cognitively impaired elders. This study aimed to identify students’ difficulties in interacting with elders, the causes of the difficulties in interacting with elders, the strategies used to reduce these difficulties, and the importance attributed to the Structured Sequence of Humanitude Care Procedures (SSHCP). It also aimed to assess the contribution of the Humanitude Care Methodology (HCM) to the development of interaction skills in nursing students. An exploratory descriptive study with a quasi-experimental design was conducted with a sample of 64 nursing students during their hospital clinical training. A control group (usual training) and an experimental group (HCM training) were used. Data were collected through a questionnaire applied at baseline and follow-up. Content analysis, chi-square tests, and Student’s t-tests were performed. The main difficulty identified was caring for agitated and confused elders. Difficulties were associated with a lack of theoretical–practical teaching, the clinical training context, lack of experience, and personality traits. HCM impacted positively on the development of students’ interaction skills. This study shows that HCM is an innovative methodology in nursing education that will allow for moving from an instrumental and technicist education into a more humanized training capable of transforming care.

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“…The new intergenerational learning paradigm can address this, by emphasizing the importance of intergroup contact between generations, where each group can learn from and teach the other through reciprocal relations between different generations (Kuehne and Melville, 2014). The experience of an undergraduate nursing programme (Reitmaier et al, 2015), demonstrated the benefits of intergenerational contact between older and younger adults, one of which is the development of intergenerativity. Intergenerativity (George et al, 2011) describes a process from which different generations develop an ability to create, generate or produce new content together.…”

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Overcoming ageism through a new intergenerational learning paradigm: challenges and findings

Gonçalves

Hatton-Yeo

Farcas

2016

QAOA

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a programme developed and tested in Portugal under this new paradigm where young adults (18-30) and old adults (over 65) learn research skills together. Design/methodology/approach The structure of the learning experience consists in a six-month training course for lay people in research skills in three specific areas of family, mental health and intergenerational relationships. In order to apply the acquired research and intervention knowledge, participants work in intergenerational groups on a small research project. Findings Results from the first two editions of the programme indicate benefits of mutual reciprocity in the contribution to tackle ageism and trust between generations. Research limitations/implications The potential practice implications for this type of intergenerational programme are significant, considering the increasing aging population in Portugal and the high ageism present. However, the authors may ask if the encountered results are the same with another type of learning subject. Therefore, the authors recommend a replication of this study/programme in other fields. Practical implications An integrated active ageing goes from a senior cultural entertainment to a public policy intervention sustained over time, reducing costs in terms of health, education and social services. Social implications Ageism, that is to say discrimination against people because of their age, is an enormous social problem. The new intergenerational learning paradigm can help to address this by emphasizing the importance of the intergroup contact between generations where each group can learn from and teach the other. Originality/value The authors can say that these first two editions of the Intergenerational University was a first outlook of how the authors can innovate learning processes at universities and bring research to the public. It is a methodology of social responsibility universities may adopt.

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Discovering intergenerativity: an evaluation of learning partnerships between student nurses and older adults

Abstract: Involving older adults as education partners in undergraduate nursing programmes has benefits for all participants and could form a valuable component of any undergraduate nursing programme.

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Impact of an Interprofessional Health Student Education Program on Older Adult Participants

Impact of an Interprofessional Health Student Education Program on Older Adult Participants

Nursing Students’ Relational Skills with Elders Improve through Humanitude Care Methodology

Overcoming ageism through a new intergenerational learning paradigm: challenges and findings

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