ERIC Number: EJ1393048
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-1366-5626
EISSN: EISSN-1758-7859
Learning in Living Lab Collaboration in Primary Care -- A Qualitative Study
Samuelson, Sarah; Svensson, Ann; Svenningsson, Irene; Pennbrant, Sandra
Journal of Workplace Learning, v35 n9 p218-234 2023
Purpose: To meet future healthcare needs, primary care is undergoing a transformation in which innovations and new ways of working play an important role. However, successful innovations depend on joint learning and rewarding collaborations between healthcare and other stakeholders. This study aims to explore how learning develops when entrepreneurs, healthcare professionals and older people collaborate in a primary care living lab. Design/methodology/approach: The study had an action research design and was conducted at a clinically embedded living lab at a primary care centre on the west coast of Sweden. Data consisted of e-mail conversations, recordings from design meetings and three group interviews with each party (entrepreneurs, healthcare professionals and older people). Data were analysed with inductive qualitative content analysis. Findings: An overarching theme, "To share each other's worlds in an arranged space for learning", was found, followed by three categories, "Prerequisites for learning", "Strategies to achieve learning" and "To learn from and with each other". These three categories comprise eight subcategories. Originality/value: This research contributes to knowledge regarding the need for arranged spaces for learning and innovation in primary care and how collaborative learning can contribute to the development of practice.
Descriptors: Primary Health Care, Cooperative Learning, Innovation, Laboratories, Foreign Countries, Action Research, Older Adults, Learning Strategies, Entrepreneurship, Allied Health Personnel, Partnerships in Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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