Promoting active ageing: developing, disseminating and evaluating a digital platform for and with seniors during the period of confinement linked to COVID-19

Google translate: As people aged 70 and over are at greater risk of dying from complications of COVID-19, the governments of Quebec and Canada strongly recommend that they stay at home. The confinement of seniors, especially those who are socially isolated, could have several harmful consequences, both in terms of their physical or mental health (e.g. stress, anxiety, autonomy, depression, cognitive decline, suicide) and socially ( g., ageism, individualism). How to promote the active aging of seniors and reduce the effects of their confinement? The general objective of this one-year action-research is to promote active aging in a period of confinement linked to COVID-19 through the development, dissemination and evaluation of a digital platform, for and with the elders. Five specific objectives will be pursued: 1) identify and better understand the active aging needs of seniors during confinement; 2) continue to identify initiatives, in Canada and internationally, that meet these needs; 3)develop a scalable digital platform that promotes the active aging of seniors; 4)disseminate the digital platform to seniors and support them in its use; 5)evaluate the digital platform (content, form and user experience), its distribution, its use, as well as its effects on the active aging of seniors. The digital platform and its content will meet the needs, interests and preferences of seniors, and will be adapted to their realities. Initiatives (including information, activities and resources) that promote active aging will be centralized in the same place, while no other platform, in Quebec or Canada, offers this possibility to our knowledge. Although this research-action is particularly interested in seniors, anyone, regardless of age, can benefit from the knowledge and the platform developed and, thus, age while remaining active.]