Overall goal with the project AgeSam – Aging and Demographic Changes in late modern society is to create a module/course on PhD /master level focusing on ageing and dementia including the lifelong, lifewide education of elderly people, as well as for professional and informal carers. The Baltic Sea region is an area of significant discrepancies in health and social conditions. A growing cross-border movement of people requires actions addressing these discrepancies. Access to dementia care and treatment of the same varies due to different welfare logics. Consequently, this project focuses on improving and promoting dementia care in the Baltic Sea region including social and professional aspects of ensuring sustainable and healthy societies. It also fosters macro-regional cooperation in health and making it more integrated and inclusive by providing common reference points. Health and social professionals of all levels who provide care for people with dementia in care homes and hospital settings are often facing challenging situations and ethical dilemmas. Digital technology has potential to support people with dementia. How this kind of technology can be used and understood in relation to relatives and dementia care in different welfare logics is a key issue to make the technology support daily care. In the project, empirically based research is created in the meeting between the academia and the field of practice. Long-term goals include the contribution of a) a deeper professional understanding of an aging society and dementia related challenges and b) creating a common understanding, socially, practically and culturally in knowledge acquisition regarding differences and similarities in the context of welfare logics and dementia care. The project contains four intellectual outputs: Integrated care teaching tool, A Study handbook, A cross-border method in collaboration and social innovation supportive to the Course module: Ageing societies and Dementia care. The module for PhD/master students use a problem-based approach that emphasizes learning by doing. This approach enables students to build cognitive and metacognitive skills for acquiring, analyzing, and applying knowledge. Further, how interdisciplinary competencies can contribute to the professional development in aging societies is a part of the module. In higher education, two of the main objectives are intercultural exchange and an international perspective on learning. The project builds both on previous and ongoing projects in Sweden and abroad, and on a strong collaboration with relevant stakeholders who have been involved in the conceptual and preparation phase of the study design. The cross-border collaboration departs from the CareSam network. Previous research within the network is represented through the partners involved. Based on previously described collaboration and previously finalized projects focusing knowledge acquisition in Ageing and dementia care. Within the frame of the CareSam network, the EU-partner collaboration was a logical way to proceed out of previously results and outputs. Lead partner in this project is the Malmö University. The partners involved are: Roskilde University, UC Syd and Univ College Absalon (DK), Univ of Lower Silesia (PL), Klaipeda Univ (LT), Univ of Lapland (FIN) and the hamn. In addition, there are Municipality of Simrishamn (SE). In addition five associates, one from each home country is represented also forming the reference group. The results will remain available and visible as an integrated part of the home institutions of the partners. This will be done through open source channels. Each activity in the project support the creation and development of the Ageing societies and Dementia care - Course module. Key words: Education, digital health, curriculum development, aging, dementia, transnational, multidisciplinary, short-term mobility
The overall goal with the project AgeSam – Aging and Demographic Changes in late modern society was to create a module/course on PhD /master level focusing on ageing and dementia including the lifelong, lifewide education of elderly people, as well as for professional and informal carers. This goal was fulfilled. Apart from reaching those goals, other accomplishments were reached; scientific publications (5), establishment of an Alumni network, a wider dissemination then originally planned. The project fulfilled the four intellectual outputs: Integrated care teaching tool, A Study handbook, A cross-border method in collaboration and social innovation supportive to the Course module: Ageing societies and Dementia care. The module for PhD/master students used a problem and challenge-based approach that emphasized learning by doing. The research issues as well as research plans among the participants were closely integrated in the course. The 23 PhD students were affilitated to 15 Universities, coming from Sweden (5), Finland (5), Denmark (7), Poland (2), Belgium (1), Netherlands (1), France (2). Out of the application criterias, the participants and the research areas represented several subjects; Health Science, Social Work, Nursing Science, Psychology, Political Science, Media Education. The course in itself had a interdisciplinary focus and the mixture among the participants made a substantial contribution. The Synopsis of the participants was required in the early beginning of the course and the structure/content linked closely to the students own research questions. The final examination linked to the same. This approach enabled students to build cognitive and metacognitive skills for acquiring, analyzing, and applying knowledge. Further, the interdisciplinary competencies contributed to the professional development in aging societies was a part of the module. In higher education, two of the main objectives are intercultural exchange and an international perspective on learning. The project was built both on previous and ongoing projects and network constellation in Sweden and abroad. In addition, a strong collaboration with relevant stakeholders who have been involved in the conceptual and preparation phase as well as implementation of the study design. The cross-border collaboration departs from the CareSam network (caresam.mau.se). Within the frame of the CareSam network, the EU-partner collaboration was a logical way to proceed out of previously results and outputs. Lead partner in this project was Malmö University. The partners involved were: Roskilde University, UC Syd and Univ College Absalon (DK), Univ of Lower Silesia (PL), Klaipeda Univ (LT), Univ of Lapland (FIN) and the Simrishamn Municipality (SE). In addition, other local and regional stakeholders within elderly care connected to each partner has been involved in the project. This has made a substantial contribution to the outcome of the project including knowledge of the Glocal concept and Community of Practice (and research). The results will remain available and visible as an integrated part of the home institutions of the partners. The open access publications that was made under the umbrella of the project will also be available (references to the publications are available at the website). Key words: Education, digital health, curriculum development, aging, dementia, transnational, multidisciplinary, short-term mobility