Evaluating the Efficacy of a Short Aging Simulation Workshop for an Interdisciplinary Group of Health-care Employees at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Halpin, Sean N.

doi:10.1080/03601277.2014.938975

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“…Similar results, regarding positive attitudes and empathy, were found among pharmacy students [4] and among students in dietetics and physiotherapy [6]. Moreover, among health professionals working in geriatrics, the simulation experience promoted respect for dignity in care [24] and also improved positive attitudes towards older patients [8,14]. Our study, by focusing on the impact of this sensory activity on health professionals' representations, complements these results and supports the hypothesis that the feeling of the age-related limitations by the health professionals has a significant impact on their thinking.…”

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confidence: 63%

“…The aging-simulation experience is an innovative pedagogical device allowing health students and professionals to experience the functional and sensory limitations associated with aging. This sensory activity improves health students' empathetic attitudes towards older adults [4,16,18,29] and generates positive attitudes among health professionals [8].…”

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Aging-simulation experience: impact on health professionals’ social representations

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Background: Health professionals working with older persons are not sufficiently aware of the sensory and functional difficulties experienced by older patients. Innovative educational activities, such as the aging-simulation experience, can facilitate this awareness. This study describes the effects of an aging-simulation experience on health professionals' representations towards age-related limitations. Methods: 306 health professionals, enrolled in university training in geriatrics/gerontology in the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 academic years, experienced an aging-simulation session wearing a special suit according to a predefined scenario. Before and after the aging-simulation experience, participants completed free association tests, with the inductive words vision, hearing, movement, fine dexterity and balance. Semantic categories were created from participants' free evocations using a correspondence table manually produced in Excel 2013 for Windows (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington). Moreover, participants' opinions on difficulties experienced by older people in relation to age-related limitations were studied using Likert scale questions. Results: In total, 3060 free evocations were collected, and ten semantic categories were created. These categories were composed of participants' geriatric knowledge, about age-related limitations, and participants' feelings, about the experience of these limitations. These two aspects were impacted by the aging-simulation experience. Moreover, changes observed resulted in a better consideration of difficulties associated with age-related limitations. Conclusions: The aging-simulation experience is an effective educational tool to raise awareness among health professionals of age-related difficulties. This sensory activity allows health professionals to put themselves in the shoes of older patients and to feel age-related difficulties.

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“…Educators implement a wide range of simulation modalities, for example standardised patients (actors), part‐task trainers or full‐body mannequins (Hegland et al., 2017; Meyer et al., 2014). The healthcare sector uses more advanced simulation modalities because they take advantage of the new technologies, particularly ageing‐suits (Evans, Lombardo, Belgeri, & Fontane, 2005; Halpin, 2015; Lavalliere et al., 2017).…”

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Exploring the use of ageing simulation to enable nurses to gain insight into what it is like to be an older person

Bowden

Wilson

Traynor

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Journal of Clinical Nursing

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Aim and objectives: To explore the thoughts and experiences of aged care nurses following participation in an ageing-suit simulation intervention. Background: Globally, people are living longer, and for nurses, there are increasing challenges to meet the needs of the higher numbers of older people in hospital. Educating nurses to understand the ageing process and the experiences of older people in hospital is crucial to addressing these challenges. Ageing-suits were identified as a possible approach to assist with these educational needs. Design: This study adopted a qualitative descriptive design. Method: A convenience sample of nurses (n = 15) were selected from a single aged care ward. Volunteered nurses participated in a four-hour ageing-suit simulation session. Their immediate thoughts and experiences were explored via postsimulation debriefs, and three 30-to 50-min follow-up focus groups were conducted at 3 months to explore perceptions on the impact of their experience on clinical practices. The data were analysed with the Braun and Clarke's six-step thematic analysis method. To ensure quality reporting of this study, the COREQ checklist was utilised (see Appendix S1). Results: Data analysis generated three main themes. Nurses in the study highlighted that the experience of the ageing-suit resulted in "it feels real" (theme 1) and helped them in "enhancing understanding" (theme 2) about older people and their practices and supported a process of "changing me" (theme 3). Conclusion: Ageing-suits are emerging as a promising innovative educational approach for aged care nurses to gain insight into the challenges of ageing and subsequently making changes to themselves and their individualised practices towards older people. Future research is required to determine whether this educational approach is useful for a broader population of healthcare professionals.

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“…Of the 11 pre/post intervention without control studies in this review, eight reported a significant improvement in attitudes to older people, using a range of scales (Booth & Kada, 2015; Chen et al., 2015a, 2015b; de Abreu et al., 2017; Evans et al., 2005; Fernandes et al., 2019; Halpin, 2015; Varkey et al., 2006). One study (Robinson & Rosher, 2001) found no overall difference in attitude post intervention on the ASD, but did find a significant improvement on the instrumental subscale which related to attitudes to older people's ability to improve, change and pursue goals.…”

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Ageing simulation in health and social care education: A mixed methods systematic review

Eost-Telling

Kingston

Taylor

et al. 2020

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Aim To identify, evaluate and summarize evidence from qualitative, quantitative and mixed method studies conducted using age suits or other age simulation equipment, with health and social care students. Design Convergent segregated mixed method review design as outlined by the Johanna Briggs Institute. Data Sources CINAHL (+ with Full Text), MEDLINE, PsycINFO, PubMed, SocINDEX, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, Emerald Insight, Proquest nursing, Science Direct, Wiley Online and BioMed Central (January 2000–January 2020). Review methods Convergent segregated synthesis was used to synthesize evidence from the studies and the MERSQI checklist used to appraise quality. Results A total of 23 studies were reviewed: one randomized control, two post‐test only randomized control, three quasi‐experimental, 15 one‐group pre/post studies and two qualitative studies. Of the seventeen studies carrying out inferential statistics on attitude scores post intervention, 11 reported an improvement, three indicated no significant change and three reported worsening scores. Key themes included use of appropriate scales, type of equipment used, location and length of interactions, debriefing and contextualization of interventions in broader teaching. Conclusion The impact of ageing simulation interventions on health and social care student's attitudes to older people was predominantly positive. However, further high‐quality research is warranted to understand the optimal use of such interventions in the context of health care for a growing ageing population. Impact It is important health and social care staff have appropriate knowledge and training to enable them to provide high‐quality care to older people and challenge potential ageism in the system. This review adds to the body of work around the use of simulation and experiential learning to educate health and social care students about ageing and ageism. It also offers recommendations for using ageing simulations effectively to inform attitudes of prospective professionals who will influence future health and social care.

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Evaluating the Efficacy of a Short Aging Simulation Workshop for an Interdisciplinary Group of Health-care Employees at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Cited by 12 publications

References 28 publications

Aging-simulation experience: impact on health professionals’ social representations

Aging-simulation experience: impact on health professionals’ social representations

Exploring the use of ageing simulation to enable nurses to gain insight into what it is like to be an older person

Ageing simulation in health and social care education: A mixed methods systematic review

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