Age Friendly Business (5 cr)
Code: YY10001-3010
General information
Enrollment
01.10.2024 - 06.04.2025
Timing
03.02.2025 - 16.05.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Virtual portion
5 op
Mode of delivery
Distance learning
Campus
Tikkarinne Campus Tikkarinne 9
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
5 - 30
Degree programmes
- Open University of Applied Sciences Studies
- Degree Programme in Active Ageing, Development and Management
Teachers
- Tarja Laatikainen
Teacher in charge
Tarja Laatikainen
Scheduling groups
- Avoin AMK ja RIPA (Size: 10. Open UAS: 10.)
- Tutkinto-opiskelijat (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
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KAKK25Karelia, Open UAS, All, Spring, 2025
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YVV24_25
Small groups
- Open UAS students and RIPA
- Degree students
Objective
After completing the course:
- You will know the criteria of an age-friendly company.
- You will be able to applies the criteria of an age.friendly company in developing their own business or workplace.
- You will recognizes the needs of older customers as the basis of the development of the company.
- You will understands the importance of customer experience for developing the age-friendliness of their own company or workplace
- You will understand the string points of service desing.
Content
Age-friendly business expertise is the key to success! It improves customer satisfaction and loyalty, and sets your company apart from competitors. Additionally, an age-friendly company demonstrates social responsibility and shows that the company cares about the well-being of the community and leverages the purchasing power of older customers. So, learn the basics of an age-friendly business, choose age-friendliness, and promote the success of your company!
During the course, you will familiarize yourself with elderly people as a customer group and age-friendliness. You will also delve into the criteria for an age-friendly company and consider the importance of customer experience in developing your company or workplace. In the final assignment of the course, you will focus on developing an age-friendly company
The topics of the course are
- Age friendliness
- Criteria for an age friendly company
- Applying the criteria of an age.friendly company to age-friendly development of your own business or workplace
- The importance of customer experience for the development of service design
- You will specifies an process on the development of your own business or workplace using the criteria of an age-friendly company
Evaluation scale
Approved/Rejected