title: A person-centred approach to health promotion for persons 70+ who have migrated to Sweden: promoting aging migrants' capabilities implementation and RCT study protocol.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  There are inequities in health status associated with ethnicity, which may limit older foreign-born persons' ability to age optimally. Health promotion for older persons who have experienced migration is thus an area of public health importance. However, since research related to this issue is very limited, the study 'Promoting Aging Migrants' Capabilities' was initiated to improve our understanding. The study aims to implement and evaluate a linguistically adapted, evidence-based, health-promoting intervention with a person-centred approach for two of the largest groups of aging persons who have migrated to Sweden: persons from Finland and persons from the Balkan Peninsula.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study has a descriptive, analytical, and experimental design. It is both a randomised controlled trial and an implementation study, containing the collection and analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data. The setting is an urban district in a medium-sized Swedish city with a high proportion of persons who were born abroad and whose socio-economic status is low. The intervention comprises four group meetings ('senior meetings') and one follow-up home visit made by a multi-professional team. For the randomised controlled trial, the plan is to recruit at least 130 community-dwelling persons 70 years or older from the target group. Additional persons from involved organisations will participate in the study of the implementation. Both the intervention effects in the target group (outcome) and the results of the implementation process (output) will be evaluated.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results of this forthcoming randomised controlled trial and implementation study may be useful for optimising implementation of person-centred, health-promoting initiatives for older persons who have experienced migration. It is also hoped that this combined study will show that the capabilities for optimal aging among older persons born in Finland and the Balkan countries can be improved in the Swedish healthcare context.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The trial was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov April 10, 2013, identifier: NCT01841853.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Section for Health and Rehabilitation, Gothenburg, Sweden. susanne.gustafsson@neuro.gu.se.|University of Gothenburg Centre for Ageing and Health (AgeCap), Gothenburg, Sweden. susanne.gustafsson@neuro.gu.se.
authors.forename: Susanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gustafsson
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Section for Health and Rehabilitation, Gothenburg, Sweden. qarin.lood@neuro.gu.se.|University of Gothenburg Centre for Ageing and Health (AgeCap), Gothenburg, Sweden. qarin.lood@neuro.gu.se.|Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. qarin.lood@neuro.gu.se.
authors.forename: Qarin
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Lood
authors.affiliation: University of Gothenburg Centre for Ageing and Health (AgeCap), Gothenburg, Sweden. katarina.wilhelmson@socmed.gu.se.|Department of Public Health and Community Medicine/Social Medicine, Institute of Medicine, the Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. katarina.wilhelmson@socmed.gu.se.
authors.forename: Katarina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wilhelmson
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Section for Health and Rehabilitation, Gothenburg, Sweden. greta.haggblom-kronlof@neuro.gu.se.|University of Gothenburg Centre for Ageing and Health (AgeCap), Gothenburg, Sweden. greta.haggblom-kronlof@neuro.gu.se.|Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. greta.haggblom-kronlof@neuro.gu.se.
authors.forename: Greta
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Häggblom-Kronlöf
authors.affiliation: University of Gothenburg Centre for Ageing and Health (AgeCap), Gothenburg, Sweden. sten.landahl@telia.com.
authors.forename: Sten
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Landahl
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Section for Health and Rehabilitation, Gothenburg, Sweden. synneve.dahlin-ivanoff@gu.se.|University of Gothenburg Centre for Ageing and Health (AgeCap), Gothenburg, Sweden. synneve.dahlin-ivanoff@gu.se.|Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. synneve.dahlin-ivanoff@gu.se.
authors.forename: Synneve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dahlin-Ivanoff
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012107:Research Design; D013548:Sweden; D014171:Transients and Migrants