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Rodríguez-Monforte M, Fernández-Jané C, Bracha M, Bartoszewska A, Kozakiewicz M, Leclerc M, Nimani E, Soanvaara P, Jarvinen S, Van Sherpenseel M, van der Velde M, Alves-Lopes A, Handgraaf M, Grüneberg C, Carrillo-Alvarez E. Defining a competency framework for health and social professionals to promote healthy aging throughout the lifespan: an international Delphi study. Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 2024:10.1007/s10459-024-10316-4. [PMID: 38441827 DOI: 10.1007/s10459-024-10316-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2023] [Accepted: 02/04/2024] [Indexed: 03/27/2024]
Abstract
The promotion of healthy aging has become a priority in most parts of the world and should be promoted at all ages. However, the baseline training of health and social professionals is currently not adequately tailored to these challenges. This paper reports the results of a Delphi study conducted to reach expert agreement about health and social professionals' competencies to promote healthy aging throughout the lifespan within the SIENHA project. Materials and methods: This study was developed following the CREDES standards. The initial version of the competence framework was based on the results of a scoping review and following the CanMEDS model. The expert panel consisted of a purposive sample of twenty-two experts in healthy aging with diverse academic and clinical backgrounds, fields and years of expertise from seven European countries. Agreement was reached after three rounds. The final framework consisted of a set of 18 key competencies and 80 enabling competencies distributed across six domains. The SIENHA competence framework for healthy aging may help students and educators enrich their learning and the academic content of their subjects and/or programs and incentivize innovation.
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Affiliation(s)
- Míriam Rodríguez-Monforte
- Global Research on Wellbeing (GRoW), Blanquerna School of Health Sciences - Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain
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- Global Research on Wellbeing (GRoW), Blanquerna School of Health Sciences - Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain.
- Departament deSalut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Tecnocampus, Mataró-Maresme, Barcelona, Spain.
| | - Marietta Bracha
- Department of Geriatrics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland
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- JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Jyvaskyla, Finland
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- Research Group Innovation of Human Movement Care, Research Center for Healthy and Sustainable Living, HU University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Global Research on Wellbeing (GRoW), Blanquerna School of Health Sciences - Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain
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