{"id":84,"date":"2019-06-17T10:44:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T08:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecolelasource.ch\/en\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2025-09-18T13:59:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T11:59:29","slug":"ageing-and-health","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ecolelasource.ch\/en\/teaching-research-laboratories\/ageing-and-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Ageing and Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The ageing of population: a challenge to take<\/h2>\n<p>The ageing of the population comes with the emergence of new strengths and new strains. The health advances achieved to date have allowed people to live longer and in better health. Life prospects have expanded tremendously, as has the potential for interpersonal exchange.<\/p>\n<h2>A cultural and social health phenomenon<\/h2>\n<p>Living longer means that seniors may have to deal with new situations and various sorts of problems:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Appearance of various physiopathological problems, descent into chronicity, development of multimorbidity or mental health problems requiring adaptive efforts<\/li>\n<li>Reduction or loss of autonomy and independence requiring care and assistance structures<\/li>\n<li>Loss of social and family ties marking personal trajectories requiring housing options and life structures for ageing seniors<\/li>\n<li>Life courses and end-of-life situations requiring complex care<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the private sphere as in the professional sphere, our relationship to ageing raises questions that are at once personal and collective, health- and policy-related, and professional and societal. The Aging and Health Laboratory (AH LER) addresses these different dimensions in its curricula and through its field research and partnerships with professional practice settings.<\/p>\n<h2>Profile<\/h2>\n<p>Elder care involves interventions that are based on multiple competencies and that are provided over an extended period of time. The AH LER approaches these issues from two angles:<\/p>\n<p>1) knowledge and knowhow transfer to care practices and assistance in geriatric and psychogeriatric settings;<\/p>\n<p>2) updating of knowledge and knowhow in undergraduate and post-graduate nursing curricula.<\/p>\n<h2>Topics of interest<\/h2>\n<p>The following topics constitute the areas of expertise of the researchers and teachers at the AH LER:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elder maltreatment<\/li>\n<li>End-of-life dementia<\/li>\n<li>Ageing in place alone<\/li>\n<li>Gerontechnologies and other services, products and action projects to assist ageing seniors<\/li>\n<li>Integration of family carers of seniors within hospital settings<\/li>\n<li>Quality of life of seniors in nursing homes<\/li>\n<li>Implementation of evidence-based practices<\/li>\n<li>Analysis of scope of practice of nursing<\/li>\n<li>Management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Team<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecolelasource.ch\/annuaire\/droz-mendelzweig-marion\/\">Marion Droz Mendelzweig<\/a>, PhD, Full Professor UAS and Head of LAB<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecolelasource.ch\/annuaire\/bedin-maria-grazia\/\">Maria-Grazia Bedin<\/a>, RN, MSc, Associate Professor UAS<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecolelasource.ch\/la-source\/publications\/articles-et-documents\/?fwp_auteur=2085\">Christine Cohen<\/a>, RN, MSc, Associate Professor UAS<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecolelasource.ch\/annuaire\/corona-lobos-lina\/\">Lina Corona-Lobos<\/a>, Lecturer UAS<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecolelasource.ch\/annuaire\/deprez-audrey\/\">Audrey Deprez<\/a>, RN, MSc, Lecturer UAS<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecolelasource.ch\/la-source\/a-propos-de-nous\/annuaire\/?fwp_recherche=fink\">Rafael Fink<\/a>, Scientific collaborator<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecolelasource.ch\/annuaire\/jaquet-brigitte\/\">Brigitte Jaquet<\/a>, RN, Lecturer UAS<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecolelasource.ch\/annuaire\/ortoleva-claudia\/\">Claudia Ortoleva Bucher<\/a>, Full Professor UAS<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecolelasource.ch\/annuaire\/rich-raphael\/\">Rapha\u00ebl Rich<\/a>, Lecturer UAS<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecolelasource.ch\/annuaire\/roulet-schwab-delphine\/\">Delphine Roulet Schwab<\/a>, PhD (psychology), Full Professor UAS<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecolelasource.ch\/annuaire\/turcotte-mathieu\/\">Mathieu Turcotte<\/a>, RN, MSc, Lecturer UAS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Researchers at the AH LER contribute to scientific and professional journals and to non-profit community publications, and can be seen and heard regularly in audio-visual media. Articles generated by research conducted at the LER are featured in journals focusing on specific topics such as maltreatment, geriatrics and mental health, and in journals focusing on specific disciplines such as nursing, human and social sciences, and gerontology.<\/p>\n<h2>A multidisciplinary team<\/h2>\n<p>A team of teachers who exercise their pedagogical competencies with a view to connecting theory and practice<\/p>\n<p>Researchers trained in applied academic research possessing competencies in a variety of disciplines, including nursing, psychology, anthropology, sociology, education, ethics and public health<\/p>\n<h2>Field partners<\/h2>\n<p>Our field partners include geriatricians, clinical nurses, long-term care providers (nursing homes, home care agencies), healthcare managers, technicians, instructors and ethicists operating in geriatric and psychogeriatric settings.<\/p>\n<h2>Education programmes<\/h2>\n<h3>Bachelor of Science in Nursing<\/h3>\n<p>The undergraduate modules taught by AH LER members cover nursing care for seniors from multiples angles. They prepare students to address and take responsibilities regarding complex situations related to ageing. Students are guided to think about nursing practice in a reflective manner and to refer to studies based on the latest measures in order to propose the best possible care offer that takes account of each senior\u2019s particularities. Completing the curricula are practicums offered in geriatric settings. These give students the chance to exercise their learning in a present-day, real-world professional context.<\/p>\n<h3>Post-graduate continuing professional development in the field of ageing<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>DAS in Health and Ageing<\/strong><br \/>\nHead: Pia Coppex<\/li>\n<li><strong>Module: Elder maltreatment&#8211;forensic aspects and care<\/strong><br \/>\nCo-Head: Delphine Roulet-Schwab<br \/>\nCo-Head: Nathalie Romain-Glassey, Violence-Related Medicine Unit, Swiss Romand Centre for Forensic Medicine, Department of Community Health and Medicine, CHUV<\/li>\n<li><strong>Module: Psychiatry of ageing and team assistance<\/strong><br \/>\nHead: Claudia Ortoleva Bucher<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Services provided<\/h2>\n<h3>In geriatric settings and addressing issues related to ageing<\/h3>\n<p>The collaboration between the La Source School of Nursing and geriatric nursing care settings in the Canton of Vaud goes back many, many decades. The members of the LER respond to specific requests from educational and care institutions. The services provided afford the opportunity to transfer expertise in the management of seniors no longer autonomous and to share knowledge and know-how with practitioners in the field. The LER may also be solicited as a partner in institutional projects that make use of elder health resources.<\/p>\n<h2>Partners<\/h2>\n<p>To fulfill its education and research missions as best possible, the LER counts on local and regional partners from the clinical, non-profit and university spheres:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Association alter ego<\/li>\n<li>Association broyarde pour la promotion de la sant\u00e9 et le maintien \u00e0 domicile (ABSMAD)<\/li>\n<li>Association est vaudoise pour la sant\u00e9 et le maintien \u00e0 domicile (ASANTE SANA)<\/li>\n<li>Association de d\u00e9fense et de loisirs retrait\u00e9s et futurs retrait\u00e9s (AVIVO)<\/li>\n<li>Association ouest lausannois pour la pr\u00e9vention et le maintien \u00e0 domicile (APREMADOL)<\/li>\n<li>Association vaudoise d\u2019\u00e9tablissements m\u00e9dico-sociaux (AVDEMS)<\/li>\n<li>DomoSafety SA<\/li>\n<li>EMS Fondation de l\u2019Orme, Lausanne<\/li>\n<li>EMS Home Salem, St-L\u00e9gier<\/li>\n<li>EMS Les Pins, Lausanne<\/li>\n<li>EMS La Vernie, Crissier<\/li>\n<li>Fondation La C\u00f4te<\/li>\n<li>Haute \u00e9cole de Sant\u00e9 Vaud (HESAV)<\/li>\n<li>Haute \u00e9cole de Sant\u00e9 Gen\u00e8ve<\/li>\n<li>Fondation Soins Lausanne (FSL)<\/li>\n<li>Haute \u00e9cole de travail social et de la sant\u00e9 (HETS &amp; SA-EESP)<\/li>\n<li>Institut universitaire de formation et de recherche en soins (IUFRS)<\/li>\n<li>Institution Genevoise de Maintien \u00e0 Domicile (imad)<\/li>\n<li>Pro Senectute Gen\u00e8ve<\/li>\n<li>Pro Senectute Vaud<\/li>\n<li>Service universitaire de psychiatrie de l\u2019\u00e2ge avanc\u00e9\u2013Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois (SUPAA-CHUV)<\/li>\n<li>Service des assurances sociales et de l\u2019h\u00e9bergement (SASH)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ageing of population: a challenge to take The ageing of the population comes with the emergence of new strengths and new strains. 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