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CROSS-SECTOR COLLABORATION TO BUILD DEMENTIA-FRIENDLY BUSINESSES: ENGAGING STUDENTS IN PUBLIC ISSUES IN AGING
Despite a nationwide campaign to build dementia friendly communities, increasing awareness and engagement with programs like Dementia Friendly Businesses remains a challenge for local champions. To create welcoming environments for people living with dementia (PLWD), communities may benefit from cro...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6841067/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2660 |
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author | Huber, Lesa L Mosier, Amanda Abramenaka-Lachheb, Victoria |
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description | Despite a nationwide campaign to build dementia friendly communities, increasing awareness and engagement with programs like Dementia Friendly Businesses remains a challenge for local champions. To create welcoming environments for people living with dementia (PLWD), communities may benefit from cross-sector collaboration. Fundamental to collaborative efforts is the conviction that individuals, families, businesses, organizations, and institutions each play a role in reducing the stigma associated with dementia and facilitating welcoming environments. This exploratory study considers the outcomes of a cross-sector collaboration between a university, a hospital, individual community members, and students to build awareness of the need for new norms that reduce stigma for people living with dementia. We measured change at each ecological level. Through this collaboration, 61 local businesses and organizations are now DFB certified, 350 individuals have participated in training, and 150 students have joined 12 community trainers to advocate for dementia friendly spaces. Students’ survey responses show that 75% agree or strongly agree that the project engaged them in a meaningful real world experience and advocating for the need for dementia friendly spaces. PLWD provide qualitative data on feeling welcomed in the community. The university and hospital co-created an online open access dementia friendly training taken by 89 people in 6 months. 150 community members came together for a day-long workshop to build capacity and innovate solutions. Implications of the project suggest that changing cultural norms about dementia requires creative solutions that meaningfully engage individuals, organizations, institutions, and communities to collaborate across multiple sectors |
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spelling | pubmed-68410672019-11-15 CROSS-SECTOR COLLABORATION TO BUILD DEMENTIA-FRIENDLY BUSINESSES: ENGAGING STUDENTS IN PUBLIC ISSUES IN AGING Huber, Lesa L Mosier, Amanda Abramenaka-Lachheb, Victoria Innov Aging Session 3375 (Poster) Despite a nationwide campaign to build dementia friendly communities, increasing awareness and engagement with programs like Dementia Friendly Businesses remains a challenge for local champions. To create welcoming environments for people living with dementia (PLWD), communities may benefit from cross-sector collaboration. Fundamental to collaborative efforts is the conviction that individuals, families, businesses, organizations, and institutions each play a role in reducing the stigma associated with dementia and facilitating welcoming environments. This exploratory study considers the outcomes of a cross-sector collaboration between a university, a hospital, individual community members, and students to build awareness of the need for new norms that reduce stigma for people living with dementia. We measured change at each ecological level. Through this collaboration, 61 local businesses and organizations are now DFB certified, 350 individuals have participated in training, and 150 students have joined 12 community trainers to advocate for dementia friendly spaces. Students’ survey responses show that 75% agree or strongly agree that the project engaged them in a meaningful real world experience and advocating for the need for dementia friendly spaces. PLWD provide qualitative data on feeling welcomed in the community. The university and hospital co-created an online open access dementia friendly training taken by 89 people in 6 months. 150 community members came together for a day-long workshop to build capacity and innovate solutions. Implications of the project suggest that changing cultural norms about dementia requires creative solutions that meaningfully engage individuals, organizations, institutions, and communities to collaborate across multiple sectors Oxford University Press 2019-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6841067/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2660 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Session 3375 (Poster) Huber, Lesa L Mosier, Amanda Abramenaka-Lachheb, Victoria CROSS-SECTOR COLLABORATION TO BUILD DEMENTIA-FRIENDLY BUSINESSES: ENGAGING STUDENTS IN PUBLIC ISSUES IN AGING |
title | CROSS-SECTOR COLLABORATION TO BUILD DEMENTIA-FRIENDLY BUSINESSES: ENGAGING STUDENTS IN PUBLIC ISSUES IN AGING |
title_full | CROSS-SECTOR COLLABORATION TO BUILD DEMENTIA-FRIENDLY BUSINESSES: ENGAGING STUDENTS IN PUBLIC ISSUES IN AGING |
title_fullStr | CROSS-SECTOR COLLABORATION TO BUILD DEMENTIA-FRIENDLY BUSINESSES: ENGAGING STUDENTS IN PUBLIC ISSUES IN AGING |
title_full_unstemmed | CROSS-SECTOR COLLABORATION TO BUILD DEMENTIA-FRIENDLY BUSINESSES: ENGAGING STUDENTS IN PUBLIC ISSUES IN AGING |
title_short | CROSS-SECTOR COLLABORATION TO BUILD DEMENTIA-FRIENDLY BUSINESSES: ENGAGING STUDENTS IN PUBLIC ISSUES IN AGING |
title_sort | cross-sector collaboration to build dementia-friendly businesses: engaging students in public issues in aging |
topic | Session 3375 (Poster) |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6841067/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2660 |
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