Article

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. METHOD: 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. RESULTS: 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. CONCLUSIONS:
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.

Langue : ANGLAIS