Workshop Details
When:
Wednesday, 02.11.2022 – 09:00 to 12.15 GMT / 10:00 to 13:15 CET
Where:
Virtual Zoom Webinar Call Organised by University of Aveiro (UAVR), Portugal.
Accessibility:
Simultaneous translation in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, International Sign, and English subtitles will be provided.
Overview:
The SHAPES project intends to build and deploy a large-scale, EU-standardised open platform. The integration of a broad range of technological, organisational, clinical, educational, and societal solutions seeks to facilitate active and healthy ageing (AHA), the maintenance of a high-quality standard of life, and empower older adults as custodians of their own health and care.
Empowerment, that can be defined as a social process of recognizing, promoting, and enhancing people’s ability to meet their own needs, solve their problems and mobilize the necessary resources to feel in control of their own lives [1], can be facilitated by digital solutions, particularly solutions related to decision-making and action in health and care. However, digital solutions are not facilitators of empowerment simply because they exist. Their conception, development, and evaluation are a complex process that requires due consideration of a number of potentially hindering factors and the involvement of a number of partners, with particular relevance for the end-users, to guarantee that the technology is adopted and, ultimately, its use results in added value in daily life.
This 6th dialogue workshop intends to gather representatives from industry, academia, health and care organisations, civil society as well as older people. The Workshop will focus on:
• Introducing the concept of empowerment and strategies to embrace it;
• Identifying the barriers and facilitators to empowering older adults;
• Discussing the potential of digital solutions to empower older adults as custodians of their own health and care;
• Understanding how SHAPES can make a difference in promoting older adults’ active role in health and care decision making.
The organizers University of Aveiro, Portugal, invite all stakeholders to participate in the 6th SHAPES Dialogue Workshop.
[1] C. H. Gibson, “A concept analysis of empowerment,” J. Adv. Nurs., vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 354–361, Mar. 1991, DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2648.1991.TB01660.X.
Organizers
Ceci Diehl
Ana Isabel Martins
Gonçalo Santinha
Telmo Silva
Jorge Ferraz
Óscar Ribeiro
Nelson Rocha
Anabela Silva
University of Aveiro, Portugal
Agenda
09h00 GMT | 10h CET Opening session
Paulo Jorge Ferreira | Rector of the University of Aveiro, Portugal
Manuel de Oliveira | Regional Coordinator of the National Network of Integrated Long-term Care, Coimbra, Portugal
Mac MacLachlan | Coordinator of the SHAPES Project – Maynooth University, Ireland
Anabela Silva | Principal Investigator of the University of Aveiro in the SHAPES Project, Aveiro, Portugal
09h20 GMT | 10h20 CET Technology as a means of empowerment: The perspective of users with deafblindness
Carlos Lima, Representative for the Commission of Older People with Deafblindness, Spain
09h35 GMT | 10h35 CET Empowerment of older individuals in health and care decision-making: barriers and facilitators
Vera Hörmann | Project Officer of AGE Platform Europe, Belgium
09h45 GMT | 10h45 Digital Solutions empowering older individuals to manage their own health and care: a systematic state of the art review
Anabela Silva | Principal Researcher of the University of Aveiro in the SHAPES Project, Aveiro, Portugal
09h55 GMT | 10h55 SHAPES digital solutions: overview and contribution to the empowerment
Björn Hoog | Researcher at Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
10h10 GMT | 11h10 Break
Present a promotional video of the University of Aveiro and the city of Aveiro.
10h30 GMT | 11h30 User videos: SHAPES Pilot Themes
Presentation of videos of interviews with older people who participated in one of the Pilot Themes and tested the digital solutions.
10h45 GMT | 11h45 Round Table: Digital solutions as a means to empowering older adults: the perspective of decision-makers
Moderator: Gonçalo Santinha, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Margarida França | Chairman of the Board of Directors of Baixo Vouga Hospital Center, Aveiro, Portugal
Cláudia Oliveira | Vice-president of Arouca City Council, Arouca, Portugal
José Tomé | Vice-president of Lourinhã City Council, Lourinhã, Portugal
Catarina Mendes | Councilor of the Albergaria-a-Velha City Council, Portugal
Paula Gaio | Councilor of the S. João da Madeira City Council, Portugal
11h30 GMT | 12h30 SmartHealth4ALL: eHealth and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) solutions and their potential contribution towards empowerment
Carlos Parente | Siemens Healthineers Project eader, Portugal
11h45 GMT | 12h45 Closing Session
Artur Silva | Vice-rector for Research, Innovation and Training in the 3rd Cycle of the University of Aveiro, Portugal
Eduardo Anselmo de Castro | Vice-president of the Regional Coordination and Development Commission of Centro, Portugal
Mac MacLachlan | Coordinator of the SHAPES Project – Maynooth University, Ireland
Anabela Silva | Principal Investigator of the University of Aveiro in the SHAPES Project, Aveiro, Portugal
