Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Skills Education Programme for Nurses – Can You See the Big Picture?

We are developing a comprehensive nursing curriculum for geriatric assessment

Project duration

1.4.2024 – 31.3.2027

Source of funding

Erasmus+ Alliances for Innovation

Total funding

1 567 342 €

The international Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Skills Education Programme for Nurses – Can you see the Big Picture? project is developing an innovative curriculum for nurses focusing on the teaching and development of geriatric assessment.

The main objective of the project is to develop a new nursing education curriculum for Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment which will be offered in the form of continuing and life learning education courses, and which is possible to be integrated into HEI, universities’, and VET institutions’ degree programmes.

The CGA education curriculum’s purpose is to bridge the geriatric assessment skills gap of nurses. The new curriculum improves the quality and relevance of nursing skills by introducing new CGA skills requirements and elements of entrepreneurship (homecare service provision) in the studies. By using authentic work-based learning as well as immersive digital 3D simulations, the project aims to make nursing education an attractive choice for both the nurses upskilling themselves as well as future degree programme students. The consortium brings together HEI, universities and VET providers, along with a company providing homecare service, a hospital, a health-centre, and a company specializing in creating virtual learning environments.

Read more about the project: bigpicture.turkuamk.fi

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Contact Us

  • Sini Eloranta

    Principal Lecturer
    +358 40 355 0514
    sini.eloranta@turkuamk.fi

Partners

Åland UAS
LudusXR, Denmark
Nosileia Tora, Greece
Riga Stradins University
Tallinn Health Care Collage
University of Iceland
University of Thessaly
VARHA Southwest Finland’s Wellbeing Services County

Main publications

Dimitriadou, I., Toska, A., Eloranta, S., Mört, S., Korsström, N., Lundberg, A., H Häger, M., Melbarde-Kelmere, A., Circenis, K., Šteinmiller, J., Skuladottir, S.S., Hjaltadóttir, I. & Fradelos, E.C. 2025. Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment: Addressing Unmet Healthcare Needs in Older Adults. Healthcare 2025 / 13, Issue 21, 2715.

Dimitriadou,I., Eloranta S., Šteinmiller J., Saridi M., Lundberg, A., Häger M., Hjaltadottir I., Skuladottir S.S., Korsstöm N., Mört, S., Tuori H. & Fradelos E.C. Comprehensive Geriatric Health Assessment Core Competencies and Skills for Primary Care Nurses: A Scoping Review. Geriatrics 2025, 10(2), 48; https://doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics10020048

Eloranta, S. Korsström, N. & Mört, S. Kokonaisvaltainen geriatrinen arviointi – sairaanhoitajan osaamisen ytimessä. Kasvun ja vanhenemisen tutkijat ry. 21.2.2025. Kokonaisvaltainen geriatrinen arviointi – sairaanhoitajan osaamisen ytimessä | KaVa

Eloranta, S. Huusko H-M, Korsström N, Tuori H, & Mört S. Näetkö kokokuvan? Ikäihmisen kokonaisvaltainen geriatrinen arviointi. Gerontologia 39(2), 2025. Näetkö kokokuvan? Ikäihmisen kokonaisvaltainen geriatrinen arviointi – pdf

Fradelos, E.C., Dimitriadou, I., Skampardonis, K., Zetta, S., Xatzi, A., Toska, A., Saridi, M., Eloranta, S., Mört, S., Korsström, N., Lundberg, A., Häger, M., Melbarde-Kelmere, A., Circenis, K., Ehasalu, A., Männiksaar, L., Šteinmiller, J., Skuladottir, S.S., Hjaltadóttir, I., Huusko, H.-M., Tuori, H., Gkekkas, K., Zafeiropoulos, S. (2025). An e-Delphi study to identify core competencies for Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in primary health care. International Journal of Caring Sciences, 18(2), 805–825. (Microsoft Word – 18.fradelos SOS.docx)

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