A course to teach students to learn mobile health by serving the elderly.
We designed a special course based on Service Learning theory to train the undergraduate students to teach the elderly people in community college to learn using smartphones for health. A 2-credit course was designed, composed of lecture &amp; discussion and community service. 20 undergrduate stundents from university and 26 seniors from community college registered at this course. The results show very postitive impacts in both groups. The students felt doing something meaningful and learning helping the elder when the elderly felt very appreciated by being served and taught by students about the smartphones. The elderly wished us to go back in the future.
Department of Nursing, Cathay General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan (ROC).
Ming Chuan
MC
Kuo
Yu-Ting
YT
Su
Jin-Jong
JJ
Chen
Chen-Hsen
CH
Lee
Polun
P
Chang
D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000193:education*; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D013624:Taiwan; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D017216:Telemedicine