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Age Friendly Business (5 cr)

Code: YY10001-3011

General information


Enrollment

01.04.2025 - 30.04.2025

Timing

02.06.2025 - 31.07.2025

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

1 - 50

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Active Ageing, Development and Management

Teachers

  • Tarja Laatikainen

Teacher in charge

Tarja Laatikainen

Scheduling groups

  • Avoin AMK ja Ripa (Size: 20. Open UAS: 20.)
  • Tutkinto-opiskelijat (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)

Groups

  • KAKK25KE
    Karelia, Open UAS, All, Summer, 2025
  • 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