SFOK15005U Alive and KICking - Innovative solutions to aging related challenges
Aging has been coined as one of the major societal challenges. The fact that we simply live longer, is in itself not a problem but rather a triumph. However, this unprecedented demographic change significantly affects individual life histories through an increased number of lifestyle related chronic diseases and cognitive impairments. These extra life years also have a massive imprint on the organization of welfare institutions and the financial sustainability of the welfare system. Thus, aging has for several years been one of the most important research areas from a biomedical, societal and humanistic perspective, prompting not only important new scientific knowledge, but also new ideas, concepts and technologies for innovative solutions of some of the core problems that individuals and societies are confronted with.
The course consists of two parts:
1) An e-learning course on the Coursera platform with 12 lectures and multiple choice tests. Accessible on 1 June
2) Two weeks of intensive case work on campus 8 - 19 August 2016
The online lectures provides the students with recent knowledge on, and for the purpose relevant, innovation and business theories and methods covering different environments for health innovation for elderly. The e-learning part of the summer school serves as background knowledge for the students to be able to develop innovations to health care related challenges in an elderly population.
On the on-site campus part the acquired knowledge will be applied to selected case-topics and put into practice. In an interdisciplinary setting the students will work intensively on a case and obtain knowledge on and practical experience with working on an innovation and a business case that supports healthy lives and active aging.
After completing the course, the student is expected to be able to:
Knowledge:
Identify analyse, and explain specific aging related challenges and innovations for citizens in their domestic living environments.
Explain the pros and cons with the use of technologies to solve healthcare related challenges in an elderly population.
Be critical to the process of developing innovative solutions in a participatory design, involving the future users, to address such aging related challenges.
Discuss and be critical to how differences in health literacy influence design of solutions.
Skills:
Analyse and discuss aging related challenges and innovations for citizens in their domestic living environment.
Master group work, to facilitate innovation processes from initial ideas in a participatory design, to prototypes and feasibility studies, and eventually to business plans
Competences:
Demonstrate control of analytical tools for understanding aging related challenges for citizens
Overview the organizational and economic viability of innovative solutions.
Plan and develop business cases for innovative ideas.
Be a valuable collaborator by being aware of the different competences that are brought into an interdisciplinary setting.
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Further readings to be added spring 2016
Between the e-learning-part and on campus, students are expected to prepare for the on-campus-part by reading further relevant material, provided by UCPH and CBS.
On-campus learning is characterized by short introductions and discussions the first couple of days. Afterwards the participants will work in groups on selected case-topics, where the theory and acquired methods will be applied. At the end of the course, the groups will present their project in plenum and write a report about their findings.
The program also includes social activities, such as field trips and min. one dinner.
- Category
- Hours
- E-Learning
- 60
- Exam
- 46
- Excursions
- 6
- Preparation
- 20
- Project work
- 74
- Total
- 206
Application deadline 1 April.
The course will also be offered via Copenhagen Summer Program: http://healthyaging.ku.dk/for_students/health-innovation-summer-school-2016/.
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written examinationThe students present their projects in plenum for fellow students. Fellow students are opponent for another project (1 hour pr. project). All students must participate actively in the presentation. The plenum session form the basis for the written report, which is worked out individually. The report must be of max. 15 pages; The report must be handed in max one week after the end of the course.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- passed/not passed
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Criteria for exam assesment
Knowledge:
Identify, analyse and explain specific aging related challenges and innovation for citizens in their domestic living environments
Explain the pros and cons with the use of technologies to solve healthcare related challenges in an elderly population.
Be critical to the process of developing innovative solutions in a participatory design, involving the future users, to address such aging related challenges.
Discuss and be critical to how differences in health literacy influence design of solutions.
Skills:
- Analyse and discuss aging related challenges and challenges for citizens in their domestic living environment.
Competences:
Demonstrate control of analytical tools for understanding aging related challenges for citizens
Overview the organizational and economic viability of innovative solutions.
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- SFOK15005U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree MasterFull Degree Master choice
- Duration
- Placement
- Spring And Summer
- Schedule
- Full time schedule.
- Course capacity
- Max 40 people
- Continuing and further education
- Price
Postgraduate students (Msc) enrolled at:
- UCPH or CBS: no tuition fee
- The KIC Universitites in the EIT Health: no tuition fee
- Other universities in the EU/EAA: tuition fee of DKK 6000
- The IARU universities with a GPS exchange agreement with UCPH: no tuition fee
- Other non-EU/EAA citizens: tuition fee of DKK 9375
- Study board
- The Staff-Student Committee of the Bachelor/Master of Science in Public Health
Contracting departments
- Department of Public Health
- Center for Healthy Aging
- Department of Anthropology
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
- SAXO-Institute - Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History
Course responsibles
- Rudi GJ Westendorp (10-7e6c7a7b6c756b767977477a7c756b35727c356b72)
• University of Copenhagen, Center for Healthy Aging www.healthyaging.ku.dk , SUND Vækst http://sundvaekst.kk.dk/
• Copenhagen Business School http://www.cbs.dk/
• Erasmus University Rotterdam, Institute of Health Policy and Management http://www.bmg.eur.nl/english/
• Novo Nordisk http://www.novonordisk.com/
• Steno Diabetes Center https://steno.dk/en/
• EIT Health http://eithealth.eu/
Lecturers
Scientists from Center for Healthy Aging at UCPH, “SUND Vækst” at UCPH, Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Novo Nordisk, Steno Diabetes Center, DigiRehab and foreign experts i.a. from Erasmus University of Rotterdam.