TY - JOUR
T1 - Educational Program for Promoting Collaboration Between Community Care Professionals and Convenience Stores
AU - Igarashi, Ayumi
AU - Matsumoto, Hiroshige
AU - Takaoka, Manami
AU - Kugai, Haruna
AU - Suzuki, Miho
AU - Yamamoto-Mitani, Noriko
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank all of the participants in this study. We would also like to acknowledge Mr. Satoshi Murata, Ms. Naomi Yanase, Mr. Shingo Aoki, Ms. Keiko Aburayama, and Mr. Hideto Yasui, members of the Nerima City convenience store collaboration project, and Mr. Masakazu Miyahara, Ms. Rie Goudo, Mr. Ryosuke Takada, Ms. Tomoko Okuyama, Mr. Nobuyoshi Kato, and Ms. Aika Yada from the Community and Cultural Affairs Division of Nerima City, Tokyo. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant JP15K15880) and Nerima City. This study was approved by the ethics committee of the University of Tokyo (Nos. 10821 and 11766).
Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant JP15K15880) and Nerima City. This study was approved by the ethics committee of the University of Tokyo (Nos. 10821 and 11766).
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© The Author(s) 2019.
PY - 2020/7/1
Y1 - 2020/7/1
N2 - Convenience stores play an important role in supporting community-dwelling older adults’ lives. This study aimed to describe the development of and to evaluate an educational program to promote collaboration between communities and convenience stores in Japan. We developed the educational program based on interviews of convenience store staff to encourage them to collaborate with health/social care professionals for helping older adults. We conducted pre- and post-program questionnaire surveys of 184 participants to evaluate the program. After the program, the total score for attitudes toward dementia (p =.010) improved significantly among the convenience store staff. On the contrary, the score for “solidarity and proactiveness,” a subscale for sense of community, improved significantly among health/social care professionals (p =.003). This educational program can have a significant effect on the perceptions and attitudes for supporting older adults, depending on the participants’ occupations. This educational program could foster community networks, leading to an age-friendly community.
AB - Convenience stores play an important role in supporting community-dwelling older adults’ lives. This study aimed to describe the development of and to evaluate an educational program to promote collaboration between communities and convenience stores in Japan. We developed the educational program based on interviews of convenience store staff to encourage them to collaborate with health/social care professionals for helping older adults. We conducted pre- and post-program questionnaire surveys of 184 participants to evaluate the program. After the program, the total score for attitudes toward dementia (p =.010) improved significantly among the convenience store staff. On the contrary, the score for “solidarity and proactiveness,” a subscale for sense of community, improved significantly among health/social care professionals (p =.003). This educational program can have a significant effect on the perceptions and attitudes for supporting older adults, depending on the participants’ occupations. This educational program could foster community networks, leading to an age-friendly community.
KW - age-friendly society
KW - ageism
KW - community
KW - gaming tool
KW - health/social care professionals
KW - home and community-based care and services
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U2 - 10.1177/0733464819871878
DO - 10.1177/0733464819871878
M3 - Article
C2 - 31478434
AN - SCOPUS:85072015088
SN - 0733-4648
VL - 39
SP - 760
EP - 769
JO - Journal of Applied Gerontology
JF - Journal of Applied Gerontology
IS - 7
ER -