Active Care In Practice: Long-Term Experiences From An Education Programme

Abstract

Purpose

To explore whether the Active Care education programme has influenced the participants in practice over time and if so how.

Method and material

A hermeneutic explorative approach. Semi-structured focus group interviews and individual interviews with participants from the education programme from 2014 to 2015. Participants came from different areas in care and had different professional backgrounds. Systematic text condensation analysis based on Malterud.

Results

The Active Care programme has given the participants new knowledge that motivated, inspired and gave them power to change their practice. The new knowledge seems to give resonance in their basic values and strengthens their understanding of the importance of the users’ basic needs and right to be empowered.

Conclusion

Active teaching methods that appeal to participants help to understand and expand carers’ repertoire and increases professionalism across professions and positions. Structural factors need to be addressed to meet the goal of integrated person-centered services.

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Keywords:

• healthy ageing
• person centered care
• empowerment
• professionalism

Acknowledgments

Many thanks to project leader Gro Lorentzen for our discussions and your patience. A great big thank you to the participants for sharing your experiences with us.

Author Contributions

Both authors contributed substantially to conception and design, data acquisition, data analysis and interpretation. JV designed the study, collected the data, analyzed the data and drafted and critically revised the manuscript for intellectual content and approved the final version. SH contributed to the analysis, supervised the whole writing process critically for scientific content and approved the final version. Both authors are accountable for all aspects of the work and ensure that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. All authors gave final approval of the version to be published, and agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work.

Disclosure

The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.