TY - JOUR
T1 - The Longitudinal Elderly Person Shadowing Program
T2 - Outcomes From an Interprofessional Senior Partner Mentoring Program
AU - Basran, Jenny F.S.
AU - Dal Bello-Haas, Vanina
AU - Walker, Doreen
AU - MacLeod, Peggy
AU - Allen, Bev
AU - D'Eon, Marcel
AU - McKague, Meredith
AU - Chopin, Nicola S.
AU - Trinder, Krista
N1 - Funding Information:
In 2007 the authors were awarded a grant through Health Canada’s Patient Centered Interprofessional Team Experiences (P-CITE) funding program. This funding enabled the development of the LEPS pilot project at the University of Saskatchewan. The program, which combines senior mentorship with interprofessional education, has been offered every year since 2008. Interprofessional teams of three to four students from medicine (1st year MD program), pharmacy (1st year B.Sc. in pharmacy), nutrition (2nd year B.Sc. in nutrition), nursing (3rd year BSN), social work (4th year BSW), and physical therapy (1st year master’s in physical therapy) were partnered with older adult volunteers (“senior partners”) recruited from a seniors housing complex, located within walking distance of the university.
PY - 2012/7
Y1 - 2012/7
N2 - The University of Saskatchewan's Longitudinal Elderly Person Shadowing (LEPS) is an interprofessional senior mentors program (SMP) where teams of undergraduate students in their first year of medicine, pharmacy, and physiotherapy; 2nd year of nutrition; 3rd year nursing; and 4th year social work partner with community-dwelling older adults. Existing literature on SMPs provides little information on the sustainability of attitudinal changes toward older adults or changes in interprofessional attitudes. LEPS students completed Polizzi's Aging Semantic Differential and the Interdisciplinary Education Perception Scale. Perceptions of older men and women improved significantly and changes were sustained after one year. However, few changes were seen in interprofessional attitudes.
AB - The University of Saskatchewan's Longitudinal Elderly Person Shadowing (LEPS) is an interprofessional senior mentors program (SMP) where teams of undergraduate students in their first year of medicine, pharmacy, and physiotherapy; 2nd year of nutrition; 3rd year nursing; and 4th year social work partner with community-dwelling older adults. Existing literature on SMPs provides little information on the sustainability of attitudinal changes toward older adults or changes in interprofessional attitudes. LEPS students completed Polizzi's Aging Semantic Differential and the Interdisciplinary Education Perception Scale. Perceptions of older men and women improved significantly and changes were sustained after one year. However, few changes were seen in interprofessional attitudes.
KW - ageism
KW - interprofessional education
KW - medical education
KW - senior mentor programs
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U2 - 10.1080/02701960.2012.679369
DO - 10.1080/02701960.2012.679369
M3 - Article
C2 - 22816977
AN - SCOPUS:84864533571
SN - 0270-1960
VL - 33
SP - 302
EP - 323
JO - Gerontology and Geriatrics Education
JF - Gerontology and Geriatrics Education
IS - 3
ER -