title: [Improving Structures for Healthy and Self-Determined Ageing in an Urban District].
abstract: Between 2007 and 2010 the Institut für Gerontologische Forschung e.V. investigated the "Primary Prevention Effects of the Märkisches Viertel Network" in the Berlin district "Märkisches Viertel". The study integrates, amongst others, various participatory methods to investigate the health promotion effects of the volunteer Märkisches Viertel Network, an organisation that brings together different local actors working to assist and encourage older people to live independent lives. Sustained active collaboration by a heterogeneous mixture of actors in a spatially defined quarter, engagement by the local housing association, and increasing acknowledgement of and participation by older residents were identified as success factors for a change in local structures.
authors: Institut für Gerontologische Forschung e.V., Berlin.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Heusinger
authors: Institut für Gerontologische Forschung e.V., Berlin.
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Kammerer
authors: Institut für Gerontologische Forschung e.V., Berlin.
authors: B
authors: B
authors: Wolter
authors: Institut für Gerontologische Forschung e.V., Berlin.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Schuster
mesh_terms: D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000458:organization & administration; D005858:Germany; D006291:Health Policy; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods; D011635:Public Health Administration / Q000379:methods; D058996:Quality Improvement / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012648:Self Care / Q000379:methods*; D019037:Urban Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*