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Age Friendly Business (5 cr)

Code: YY10001-3003

General information


Enrollment
01.04.2022 - 03.09.2022
Registration for the implementation has ended.
Timing
04.09.2022 - 22.12.2022
Implementation has ended.
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 cr
Local portion
0 cr
Virtual portion
5 cr
RDI portion
5 cr
Mode of delivery
Distance learning
Unit
YAMK / Ikäosaaminen (YIO)
Campus
Tikkarinne Campus Tikkarinne 9
Teaching languages
Finnish
Seats
10 - 60
Degree programmes
Degree Programme in Active Ageing, Development and Management
Teachers
Noora Silvennoinen
Tarja Laatikainen
Teacher in charge
Tarja Laatikainen
Course
YY10001

Evaluation scale

Approved/Rejected

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

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