Developing Behavioural Interventions for Older Adults
Institut für Pflegewissenschaft
Medizinische Fakultät, Universität Basel
Bernoullistrasse 28, 4056 Basel, Schweiz
Tel.+41 (0) 61 267 30 40;
Fax.++41 (0) 61 267 09 55
nursing.unibas.ch
Health-related behavioural interventions have great potential for advancing the health and well-being of older adults, their families, and communities. As behavioural interventions are complex, their development and testing is challenging. Through presentations and small group work with internationally recognized experts, participants will delve into the practical strategies and challenges of intervention development and implementation. Presentations will explore issues in intervention design and analysis, as well as ways to maximize trial efficacy and implementation through fidelity monitoring and measurement, selection of appropriate control groups, and recruitment and retention of targeted populations. Additional topics include cost-analysis, challenges of taking an intervention to scale, writing proposals to support intervention development, and professional career considerations in advancing an intervention. Participants will be able to examine these topics through lectures and small group discussions with professionals from diverse disciplines.
The course will be taught by Laura Gitlin, PhD, Professor and Director Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD, United States and Sara Czaja, PhD, Professor and Director University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States.
The INS Summer School has attracted a true international group of doc & postdoc students as well as faculty over the past years. According to the participant’s feedback, INS Summer Schools are seen as a great platform for the exchange of scientific knowledge with colleagues, a great opportunity to get to know each other and each other’s life, work and research conditions and offer an inestimable value of setting up networks next to the learning and deepening of scientific methods thanks to the internationally recognized expertise of the lecturers.
