SCH: EXP: Old is Gold - Co-Production of Healthy Living for the Elderly Through Time Banking

SCH：EXP：老是金 - 通过时间银行共同制作老年人的健康生活

• 批准号: 1502176
• 负责人: John Carroll
• 金额: $ 66.31万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1502176&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCH; EXP; Old; Gold; Co

This project is funded under a joint solicitation between the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, named "Smart and Connected Health" (SCH), which aims to accelerate the development and use of innovative approaches that would support the much needed transformation of healthcare across the entire population. The elderly represent a growing segment of the total population due to the mutually reinforcing effects of declining birth rates and increasing longevity. The prospect of caring for this elderly population by scaling current custodial approaches is not feasible: There are not enough younger people in the population. But beyond numbers, it is not clear that simply scaling up custodial approaches is even desirable. Elderly people comprise social assets to many kinds of organizations including corporations and local communities. Moreover, engaging in personally meaningful activity directly contributes to enjoying longer and healthier lives.This project investigates timebank interactions as a socio-technical intervention to expand and extend opportunities for elderly people to live independently and productively, and more specifically, to cooperate with others to be more active and engaged. People use timebanks to exchange services valued by the time required to perform the services. Many timebank interactions are co-productions, services that reciprocally benefit both parties. These types of exchanges can be particularly powerful in helping both giver and receiver become more active and engaged.The project analyzes the co-production of healthy living, in which people provide and receive social services and support. For example, when two people take a walk or play cards together, they are providing mutual care; each is helping the other to be more active and engaged. The study is a partnership with an aging-in-place organization and a retirement community, in order to investigate different living arrangements among the elderly. The study first analyzes current practices for healthy living among the elderly, and identify opportunities for timebanking support of these practices. Guided by this, timebanking tools and infrastructure to enhance co-production of health in communities of elderly people are designed, deployed, and evaluated.

该项目是在国家科学基金会与美国国立卫生研究院（National Institutes of National Institutes of National Institutes of National Institutes）之间的共同招标下资助的，该研究名为“ Smart and Connected Health”（SCH），该项目旨在加速创新方法的发展和使用，这些方法将支持整个人群中医疗保健的急需转变。由于出生率下降和寿命增加，老年人代表了总人口的不断增长。通过扩展当前的监护方法来照顾这一老年人的前景是不可行的：人口中没有足够的年轻人。但是，除了数字之外，还不清楚简单地扩大监护方法甚至是可取的。老年人为包括公司和当地社区在内的许多组织组成社会资产。此外，从事个人有意义的活动直接有助于享受更长，更健康的生活。该项目调查了时间库互动，作为一种社会技术干预措施，以扩大和扩大老年人独立，有效地生活的机会，并更具体地与他人合作，以使其更加活跃和参与。人们使用时间班克来交换按照执行服务所需的时间价值的服务。许多时间库互动是联合制作，这是对双方都受益的服务。这些类型的交流可能在帮助给予者和接收者变得更加活跃和参与方面特别有力。该项目分析了人们提供和获得社会服务和支持的健康生活的共同生产。例如，当两个人一起散步或一起玩卡片时，他们正在提供相互护理。每个人都在帮助彼此变得更加活跃和参与。这项研究是与现场组织和退休社区的合作伙伴关系，以调查老年人之间的不同生活安排。 该研究首先分析了老年人之间健康生活的当前实践，并确定了对这些做法的时间班克支持的机会。在此的指导下，设计，部署和评估了老年人社区的健康社区的共同生产的时间库工具和基础设施。