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When the system breaks, how do you provide care to support healthy ageing?
When an older patient leaves your clinic with multiple chronic conditions, when there is no formal pension to pay for their care, or when a family caregiver is too exhausted to continue, how do you ensure both health and dignity in your community?
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Who this is for
This programme is for anyone who works for health.
What you will take home
- You will reflect on how older adults, both men and women, experience the health system.
- You will think through one practical action that considers the experience of ageing.
- You will give feedback to colleagues about their reflections and actions.
- You will earn a certificate of completion from The Geneva Learning Foundation that recognizes your contribution and opens the way to the full Certificate programme.
Why complete this primer?
- It respects your time. This course uses simple text that works on low bandwidth to save your battery and fit into your busy schedule.
- You get knowledge vetted by global experts. You will combine lived experience with the official World Health Organization framework for healthy ageing directly to your local context.
- You join a global peer network. You will exchange ideas with colleagues from both high-income and low-income countries who face the exact same double burden of disease.
- You focus on your reality from day one. We do not impose distant theories. You will start by analyzing the specific challenges of older adults and women over 50 in your own community.
This peer learning primer is the first course in the Certificate peer learning programme on ageing and society.