Online study visit was organised on Friday 7th of May and hosted by the Regional Council of South Ostrobothnia and Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences (SeAMK). The study visit was attended by the INTENCIVE partner countries, some members of the regional stakeholder working groups as well as other people interested in topics. In total, there were nearly 50 attendees. Three (3) local e-health good practices related to elderly care and wellbeing were presented.
Good practice: Building of modern simulation learning environments and development of multiprofessional simulation‐based education for health and social care sector in South Ostrobothnia
First Good Practice was presented by Mrs. Mari Salminen-Tuomaala from SeAMK. Simulation-based education enables learning in a nearly authentic clinical environment but takes into account patient safety. Simulation-based education can occur through workshops, full scale simulations and virtual simulations. SeAMK has high quality patient simulators, computer-controlled interactive manikins, to provide hands-on practice of essential skills, procedures and critical care training. Multiprofessional simulation-based education has been developed in South Ostrobothnia between two social and health care education institutes, SeAMK and Seinäjoki Vocational Education Centre, and Seinäjoki Central Hospital. Partners share their virtual and simulated learning environments and organize joint multiprofessional simulation education.
Read more:
- https://www.seamk.fi/en/cooperate-with-us/rdi/wellbeing-technology/simulation-lab/https://www.seamk.fi/en/cooperate-with-us/rdi/wellbeing-technology/simulation-lab/
- https://www.athensjournals.gr/health/2019-6-3-2-Salminen-Tuomaala.pdf
Good practice: Showrooms to demonstrate technological solutions related to health and wellbeing
Second Good Practice was presented by Mrs. Jaana Vainionpää and Mr. Sami Perälä from SeAMK. SeAMK has two wellbeing technology demonstration environments.
SeAMK Telemedicine Center is a place where you can get to know and test basic telemedicine and e-health technologies.
Seinäjoki Home of Wellbeing (SeiHow) is a intelligent future home with modern equipment including robots as well as AI and mHealth technologies.
Both facilities are used to support teaching as well as testing and RDI activities. There are also opportunities for development work with companies. During study visit the some of the equipments were shown in practice.
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Good practice: Dementia and age-friendly South Ostrobothnia
Third Good Practice was presented by Mrs. Päivi Niinistö-Mäkinen from the Memory Association of South Ostrobothnia. They have developed learning material and executed training for SMEs in the region of South Ostrobothnia. Training basically consist of issues on how a company can develop their actions so that aging people or people with dementia are taken into account. The concept and training have also been awarded by the national act for the elderly in 2020. They also presented a video example of how a normal day-to-day activities could be handeled in an aging-friendly way.
Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVIGbqKXh_g
