Identifying Flowing Change and Learning Towards Healthy Ageing—An Action Research Study.

This article identifies change and learning within a complex ecosystem aiming for healthy ageing through action research. Learning, innovation and progress are all referred to as change. Reflecting on a surprisingly good outcome within a collaborative project between dental care and municipal healthcare, fearing that change and learning from a predetermined outcome could overshadow elements that enabled change, a theoretical flow approach was used as an entrance to perspectives of change and learning. Flow approach made it possible to sense movement, focusing on timing, attentionality and undergoing. A research question was formulated: What change and learning outcomes can be identified through the lens of a flow approach? By looking beyond the project, focusing on what enabled change, actions could be traced that might have been overlooked in the absence of a flow approach. Although oral health is important for health, interprofessional collaborative projects have, to our knowledge, never been explored using a flow approach. This article contributes to theory by broadening perspectives on change and learning. Long-term interprofessional collaboration became evident as an enabling factor when mapping the emergence of change through a flow approach aiming for healthy ageing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]