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Observing or Experiencing – The Effect of Age Simulation on the Sensitivity to Age-Related Impairment in Elderly Care

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Demographic change in Germany will lead to a 17% increase in the need for elderly care by 2030. Following, knowledge among care givers concerning age and age related impairments of their patients and residents needs to be increased. This field study examined whether wearing an age simulation suit (intervention group) can also lead to an enhanced sensitization compared to participants who observed the intervention (control group). For the study 40 training courses (n = 330) were conducted in the areas of outpatient and inpatient elderly care, consisting of information on age related impairments and the possibility of wearing an age simulation suit. The results show a high sensitivity of age-related impairments both for the intervention and for the control group. However, the intervention group has significantly higher sensitivity values (M = 5,1) than the control group (M = 4,8). It is concluded that observing of age simulation intervention can nevertheless be a good way to make training effective.

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This research was partially supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (project: “Chemnitz + Zukunftsregion lebenswert gestalten”, 02K128010). The sponsor had no role in the study design, the collection, analysis and interpretation of data, the writing of the report, or the submission of the paper for publication. We are very grateful to Anne Zeiler for her assistance with data analysis.

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Rueffert, D., Bullinger, A.C. (2020). Observing or Experiencing – The Effect of Age Simulation on the Sensitivity to Age-Related Impairment in Elderly Care. In: Goonetilleke, R., Karwowski, W. (eds) Advances in Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 967. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20142-5_34

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