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OBJECTIVE: The present study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the CRENCO project which was carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic including intergenerational activities shared by students from primary and secondary education and users of two centers for older adults and a day hospital in Catalonia. The effectiveness was assessed in terms of well-being in older adults and on negative stereotypes about the elderly in primary and secondary students. METHODS: Three interventions were carried out in which 32 older persons (9 users of centers for older adults and 23 of a day hospital), 99 primary students and 56 secondary students participated. Participants answered a questionnaire before and after the interventions. Through multilevel linear models for repeated measures, changes in feelings of loneliness, social support, anxiety and depressive symptoms, self-reported health and health-related quality of life were evaluated in older people. In primary and secondary students, changes in age stereotypes were evaluated. RESULTS: Health-related quality of life and self-reported health improved statistically after the interventions in older persons. Users of the day hospital also reported an improvement in social support. Primary school students improved their age stereotypes; no statistically significant changes were detected in secondary students. CONCLUSION: The results of the present study contribute to underlining the importance of intergenerational programs such as the one proposed by CRENCO, capable of improving well-being and providing a more realistic vision of the older adults. Our results suggest that these programs should be implemented during childhood in order to prevent the proliferation of ageist stereotypes in later life stages.
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Ageism , COVID-19 , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Ageism/prevention & control , COVID-19/epidemiology , Humans , Pandemics , Quality of Life , StudentsABSTRACT
Objetivo: El presente estudio tiene como objetivo evaluar la efectividad del proyecto CRENCO, que se desarrolló durante la pandemia por COVID-19, incluyendo actividades intergeneracionales compartidas por alumnos de primaria y secundaria y personas mayores en Cataluña. Se evalúa su efecto en el bienestar de las personas mayores y en los estereotipos negativos sobre las personas mayores de los alumnos.Métodos: Se llevaron a cabo tres intervenciones en las que participaron 32 personas mayores (9 usuarios de centros para mayores y 23 de un hospital de día), 99 alumnos de primaria y 56 alumnos de secundaria. Los participantes fueron entrevistados antes y después de las intervenciones. A través de modelos lineales multinivel de efectos aleatorios para medidas repetidas, se evaluaron, en personas mayores, cambios en sentimientos de soledad, soporte social, sintomatología ansiosa y depresiva, salud autopercibida y calidad de vida relacionada con la salud. En alumnos de primaria y secundaria se evaluaron cambios en estereotipos edadistas.Resultados: Las personas mayores reportaron una mejor calidad de vida relacionada con la salud y una mejor salud autopercibida al finalizar las intervenciones. Los usuarios del hospital de día reportaron también una mejora en el soporte social. Los alumnos de primaria mejoraron sus estereotipos edadistas, lo cual no sucedió en estudiantes de secundaria.Conclusiones: Los resultados del presente estudio contribuyen a subrayar la importancia de programas intergeneracionales como el que plantea CRENCO, capaces de mejorar el bienestar y aportar una visión más realista de las personas mayores. Nuestros resultados sugieren que estos proyectos deben ser implantados durante la infancia con el objetivo de impedir la proliferación de los estereotipos edadistas en las posteriores etapas vitales. (AU)
Objective: The present study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the CRENCO project which was carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic including intergenerational activities shared by students from primary and secondary education and users of two centers for older adults and a day hospital in Catalonia. The effectiveness was assessed in terms of well-being in older adults and on negative stereotypes about the elderly in primary and secondary students.Methods: Three interventions were carried out in which 32 older persons (9 users of centers for older adults and 23 of a day hospital), 99 primary students and 56 secondary students participated. Participants answered a questionnaire before and after the interventions. Through multilevel linear models for repeated measures, changes in feelings of loneliness, social support, anxiety and depressive symptoms, self-reported health and health-related quality of life were evaluated in older people. In primary and secondary students, changes in age stereotypes were evaluated.Results: Health-related quality of life and self-reported health improved statistically after the interventions in older persons. Users of the day hospital also reported an improvement in social support. Primary school students improved their age stereotypes; no statistically significant changes were detected in secondary students.Conclusion: The results of the present study contribute to underlining the importance of intergenerational programs such as the one proposed by CRENCO, capable of improving well-being and providing a more realistic vision of the older adults. Our results suggest that these programs should be implemented during childhood in order to prevent the proliferation of ageist stereotypes in later life stages. (AU)
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Humans , Adult , Middle Aged , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Quality of Life , Intergenerational Relations , Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology , Students , Coronavirus Infections , Epidemiology , Pandemics , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
Neste artigo apresentam-se os resultados, na perspetiva dos jovens participantes, de um programa intergeracional mediado pelas TIC. Este projeto foi desenvolvido numa Escola Profissional e num Lar de Idosos pertencentes à mesma Fundação. Retrata a interação semanal entre onze alunos entre os 15 e os 19 anos e catorze residentes ou utentes do Lar/Centro-dia da Fundação Joaquim dos Santos. Realça-se a alteração da perceção dos jovens em relação aos mais velhos durante e após a implementação do Programa, os momentos de partilha e aprendizagem mútua e a melhoria da relação entre as diferentes gerações.
The purpose of this paper is to present youth perspective concerning an intergenerational program with ICT. The project was developed in a Professional School and a retirement home from the same Institution. It portrays a weekly interaction between eleven students, aged from 15 to 19 and fourteen retirement home users, at Fundação Joaquim dos Santos. We emphasize the change in young people's perspective about the elderly, during and after the Intergenerational Program development, the exchange moments and mutual learning, as well as the relationship enhancement between the different generations.
En este artículo se presenta la perspectiva de los jóvenes sobre la implementación de un programa intergeneracional mediado por las TIC. El proyecto fue desenvuelto en una Escuela Profesional y una residencia de ancianos, pertenecientes a la misma Institución. Relata la interacción semanal entre once alumnos, de los 15 a los 19 años y catorce personas mayores, en Fundação Joaquim dos Santos. Se resalta el cambio de la percepción de los más jóvenes sobre las personas mayores, durante y después de la ejecución del Programa Intergeneracional, los momentos de intercambio y aprendizaje mutua, así como el cambio de la relación entre las diferentes generaciones.
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Humans , Male , Female , Adolescent , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Perception , Aged , Information Technology , Students , Adolescent , Intergenerational Relations , Learning , Age GroupsABSTRACT
RESUMEN De acuerdo con una perspectiva de análisis contextual y dialéctica del transcurso de la vida, se ofrece un estudio psicosociológico de las relaciones intergeneracionales en contextos familiares. Se resaltan las similitudes y divergencias del proceso de envejecimiento en contextos europeos y latinoamericanos atendiendo al proceso de postmodernización de la familia. Se promueve el envejecimiento activo y la superación optimizante del paradigma de la decadencia y la pérdida, para lo cual se valora el fomento y la dinamización de la participación social y comunitaria de los adultos mayores en programas intergeneracionales. Se concluye que en nuestras sociedades, tanto del arco mediterráneo como latinoamericanas, la proliferación de redes de apoyo social basadas en el compromiso de la reciprocidad intrafamiliar e intergeneracional son un ejemplo del paradigma del envejecimiento productivo.
ABSTRACT According to a dialectical context of lifetime analysis perspective, provides a psychosocial study of intergenerational relationships in familiar contexts. Emphasis is placed on the similarities and differences of the process of aging in European and Latin-American contexts attending to the process of post modernization of the family and to macro situational aspects. It also promotes active aging and optimizing overcoming the paradigm of decay and loss, for which values the development and revitalization of social and community participation of older people in intergenerational programs. We conclude that in our societies, the Mediterranean and Latin-America, the proliferation of social support networks based on the commitment of the reciprocity and inter generational are a clear example of the paradigm of the productive aging.
