1. Do you need anybody….? Healthy Aging User perspective

2. Healthy Aging, User perspective What do I do when my love is away. (Does it worry you to be alone ?) How do I feel by the end of the day (Are you sad because you're on your own ?) No, I get by with a little help from my friends, I get high with a little help from my friends, I gonna to try with a little help from my friends! (Beatles)

3. Healthy Aging, User perspective What does healthy aging mean? To live a long, healthy, and fulfilling life… But, society claims: elderly are too costly, do not add to the economy and are big users of the health system

4. Healthy Aging, User perspective And…… for politicians and economists we are just a part of policy, statistics or flow of money for doctors we are (just) a living object that needs some tuning and repair

5. Healthy Aging, User perspective Only for friends and family we are someone, a person that can do with some TLC So…… How can we survive to live that dream to live a long, healthy, and fulfilling life?

6. Healthy Aging, User perspective First: Regular exercise of the body (walk, cycle, swim) Eat well Keep the mind active – read, play games, even computer games. Maintain contact with family and friends and stay active, socially and productively engaged. Have an annual medical check-up.

7. Healthy Aging, User perspective Second: The elderly have to be aware of their position in general and in the cliënt- professional-relation in particular, what they try and are able to achieve, and they must be able to take the lead and bring forward their wishes and needs.

8. Healthy Aging, User perspective Third: Elderly can “survive” when professionals: *concentrate on the perception of the elderly of what is happening in their life and are open to this; *use their knowledge and skills to support the elderly in their goal to live a long, healthy, and fulfilling life.

9. Healthy Aging, User perspective Is there, apart from checklists and questionnaires, a method to help persons to bring into words what they want to achieve? I use the method of “Appreciative Inquiry”: 4 D’s: Discover, Dream, Design and Deliver. In scheme:

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11. What do I contribute to “Healthy aging” from the User perspective? I help people to emancipate, to be critical and to get in command. I am “an ambassador” for the House of Care. I am member of the complaints-committee for Care-group Vivantes.

12. Healthy Aging, User perspective And last but not least: I participate as researchpartner in a cliëntgroup in a process-evaluation-project on the subject: “Early detection and support for frail older persons” by Jill Bindels (CAPHRI). In this project we participate in discussion, decission-making and field-research.

13. Healthy Aging, User perspective Thank you for staying awake or alert and giving me your attention.