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Technology as a Pathway for Older People to Engage in Activities Promoting Succ...
Santos, Luisa Micaela Teixeira; Bobrowicz-Campos, Elzbieta; Ventura, Filipa Isabel Quaresma Santos; Parola, Vitor Sérgio de OliveiraThis chapter focuses on the use of technology on older adult health promotion. During the ageing process, they experience changes in physical, cognitive, psychological, and social domains. Frailty is the most problematic expression of ageing and entails a high risk of adverse outcomes. In order to prevent it, healthcare professionals must intervene on health promotion. However, it\\\'s impossible to continuousl...
Technology as a pathway for older people to engage in activities promoting succ...
Santos, Luisa Micaela Teixeira; Bobrowicz-Campos, Elzbieta; Ventura, Filipa Isabel Quaresma Santos; Parola, Vitor Sérgio de OliveiraThis chapter focuses on the use of technology on older adult's health promotion. During the ageing process, they experience changes in physical, cognitive, psychological and social domains. Frailty is the most problematic expression of ageing and entails a high risk of adverse outcomes. In order to prevent them, healthcare professionals must intervene on health promotion. However, it\'s impossible to monitor co...
Community-led ecosystem - a promising strategy to strengthen person-centered ge...
Bobrowicz-Campos, Elzbieta; Couto, Filipa Daniela Costa; Santos, Luisa Micaela Teixeira; Apóstolo, João Luís AlvesIn this chapter the triangulation analysis of connections between older adults, relevant stakeholders and community will be made in order to acknowledge the challenges resulting from demographic changes, identify the gaps in current health and social policy in the field of geriatric care and outline the pathways for joint actions to achieve successful aging. This analysis will also consider health and health eq...
A study Protocol for development and validation of clinical prediction model fo...
Apóstolo, João Luís Alves; Bobrowicz-Campos, Elzbieta; Moreno-Casbas, Teresa; Santos, Luisa Micaela Teixeira; Madariaga, Ricardo Sánchez deThere is a growing need to implement and evaluate the technological solutions that allow the early detection of age-related frailty and enable assessment of the predictive values of frailty components. The broad use of these solutions may ensure an efficient and sustainable response of health and social care systems to the challenges related to demographic aging. In this paper, we present the protocol of the Mo...
Sensors as a technological solution for a successful ageing
Santos, Luisa Micaela Teixeira; Bobrowicz-Campos, Elzbieta; Parola, Vitor Sérgio de Oliveira; Coelho, Adriana Raquel NevesThere is a growing need to implement and evaluate the technological solutions that allow the early detection of age-related adverse outcomes, as frailty, and enable assessment of lifestyle habits that can be maintain or improved to prevent such adverse outcomes. In this study, the sample are composed by older adults aged 65-80 years, recruited from community, and invited to use an electronic de-vice ACM Kronowi...
Mental Health and Well-being training program for volunteers and professionals ...
Santos, Luisa Micaela TeixeiraGoals: The project aims to answer the overall research question: What is the feasibility, appropriateness, meaningfulness and effectiveness of Apt4U - Mental health and well-being training program for volunteers and/or professionals working in humanitarian settings with young asylum seekers.
Mental Health and Wellbeing training program for volunteers and professionals w...
Santos, Luisa Micaela TeixeiraPhD Project about about Mental Health and Wellbeing training program for volunteers and professionals working with young asylum seekers who live in centers, shelters or refugee camps
Mental Health and Well-being training program for volunteers and professionals ...
Santos, Luisa Micaela TeixeiraPhD Project: Mental Health and Well-being training program for volunteers and professionals working with young asylum seekers who live in centers, shelters or refugee camps
A utilização de tecnologia de monitorização do estado de saúde em contexto geri...
Santos, Luisa Micaela Teixeira; Coelho, Adriana Raquel Neves; Parola, Vitor Sérgio de Oliveira; Almeida, Maria de Lurdes Ferreira deConsiderando o aumento do uso de tecnologias de monitorização, especialmente nos cuidados geriátricos, importa compreender a perceção dos idosos e seus familiares face à sua utilização no quotidiano. Estudo desenvolvido no âmbito do projeto "Saúde circadiana, atividade física e padrão de hábitos alimentares como preditores de fragilidade: população portuguesa", com objetivos de analisar as experiências dos idos...
Older adult's perception about the use of technologies in the improvement or ma...
Santos, Luisa Micaela Teixeira; Bobrowicz-Campos, Elzbieta; Almeida, Maria de Lurdes Ferreira de; Gil, Isabel Maria de AssunçãoOlder adults should participate more actively in the management of their health, integrating healthy behaviors to maintain their functional capacity [1]. The inclusion of new technologies in healthcare is a promising strategy to support behaviors that maximize older functionality [2]. Considering the probable increase in these technologies use, especially in geriatric care [3], it's important to understand the ...