TITLE:
From Crisis to Opportunity and Back Again: Is There a Response Shift at the Population-Level regarding Geriatric Training in Lebanon?
AUTHORS:
Romy Nehme, Lama R. Bazzi, Christina P. C. Borba, Zeina N. Chemali
KEYWORDS:
Capacity Building, Public Health, Elderly, Training, Quality of Life
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Aging Research,
Vol.3 No.2,
May
13,
2014
ABSTRACT:
Between crisis and opportunity, old age has many faces in Lebanon. While old
age was first seen as a time of wisdom, the current trend accentuated by migration
and the economic crisis sets a challenge for
the Lebanese elder; they may be left behind unless something is done in all communities
at a national level. In this short communication, we attempt to broaden the
scope of thinking about training programs to target population-shift and create
a true change. We reflect on our results as an
intermediate outcome of public health interventions. We suggest that it may be worthwhile
to evaluate population-shifts further and base the success of an intervention
on measures of Health Related Quality of Life through the response-shift created
by such national public health programs.