Let’s move on – improvement of an interprofessional and multilevel Healthy Ageing minor
Status: Lopend
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The ‘Let’s move on’ project aims to improve and optimize the elective course unit ‘Strengthening Healthy Ageing of people with intellectual disabilities’. This unique course has proven to be successful, but optimization and expansion is desired to better prepare (future) professionals for complex care and support of people with PIMD. Questions from the field form the basis of this project.
Why this project?
Support for people with intellectual disabilities and complex care and support needs involves many different disciplines. In practice, these disciplines work together at different levels. Traditionally, education is still strongly focused on specific professional skills and not enough on interprofessional competencies. As a result, professionals provide support based on their own subject-specific knowledge without clear substantive alignment.
The minor Healthy Ageing has already changed this. It teaches students from intermediate vocational, higher vocational and university level to work together interprofessionally with the client, his/her family and all disciplines involved on the basis of one vision and one support plan. They follow lessons together in the classroom and make use of each other’s qualities. Learning takes place in a learning community where education, research and the professional field reinforce each other. The MBO, HBO and WO students have different educational backgrounds (care and welfare), and .
This unique minor has proven successful, but optimization and broadening is desired to better prepare (future) professionals for complex care and support of people with EMB. The questions from practice and the evaluation of the minor in its current form are the basis for the goals in the project Let’s move on. We elaborate these in subprojects.
Subprojects
Work package 1 Optimization: Optimizing the existing education based on experience, evaluations, and collaboration with other multilevel education specialists.
Work package 2 Expand: broaden the education to more diverse future professionals and for professionals already working in practice.
Cooperation partners
Alfa-college; University of Groningen, Department of Inclusive and Special Needs Education; University Medical Center Groningen, section Health Psychology, Health Sciences; Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Research Group Healthy Ageing, Allied Health Care and Nursing
Health care partners: Royal DutchVisio, Vanboeijen, ’s Heeren Loo, Cosis, Alliade, Philadelphia
Funding
The project ‘Let’s move on’ is made possible by a grant from the ‘Aanjaagfonds’ from the Universiteit van het Noorden.
About the researchers
What is your role within the Academic Collaborative Centre related to people with PIMD?
I represent Hanze University of Applied Sciences in the Management Team. I am also involved in various doctoral research projects within the ACC-PIMD as a second supervisor. These research themes include motor activation, participation and the quality of life of families who have a child with PIMD.
What do you hope to achieve?
My goal is to meet the need expressed by those involved in the day-to-day support of people with PIMD for theory-based, scientifically underpinned knowledge surrounding diagnostics and treatment. Both in practice and as a scientist, it is my strong desire to advocate for people with severe or profound visual, intellectual and motor-related disabilities. I want to contribute to the generation of new knowledge in the context of a sound scientific process that recognises the value of input from families and professionals.
Research projects by Aly binnen de AW-EMB
- Who will notice when I start forgetting things?
- A hidden problem
- LIFE ID Intervention
- Healthy ageing: elective course
- Developing together: more attention for people with EMB in education
- Let’s move on – improvement of an interprofessional and multilevel Healthy Ageing minor
- Motor Activity Training Program: MATP
- Healthy ageing: elective course unit
- Moving together – Towards structural and meaningful motor activation of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities
What is your role within the Academic Collaborative Centre related to people with PIMD?
My research topic is lifestyle in people with a moderate to profound intellectual disability. My particular focus is on direct support professionals and the support that they can provide in the areas of nutrition and physical activity. During the research, we have already created a place for lifestyle in education of direct support professionals. In my role as knowledge broker for education I am going to expand this. In doing so, I focus on how we can create a place for the knowledge and expertise from the Academic Collaborative Centre into the education of professionals who work with people with
What do you hope to achieve?
People with PIMD have the right for a good life. Therefore, they need support, including from professionals. By embedding current knowledge and expertise from the Academic Collaborative Centre in education, I hope that professional will be better equipped to provide optimal support to people with PIMD and their loved ones.
Research projects by Annelies binnen de AW-EMB
What is your role within the Academic Collaborative Centre related to people with PIMD?
Within the Academic Collaborative Centre, as a senior researcher, I focus on research aimed at supporting the relatives of people with PIMD, such as parents, brothers, and sisters, specifically looking at their quality of life. Additionally, I am a assistent professor at the University of Groningen, Department of special needs eduction where I teach courses related to people with intellectual disabilities, including PIMD.
What do you hope to achieve?
I aim to bring attention and recognition to the important and intensive role that parents, brothers, and sisters play in the life of someone with PIMD. By conducting research, we gather knowledge about the (lived) experiences, and what it means to be a parent, brother, or sister of someone with PIMD. Additionally, I want to develop – together with relatives- practical tools that make their lives a bit easier or more fulfilling.
Research projects by Jorien binnen de AW-EMB