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Ageing well in the community and at home: developing digital competencies of care workers to improve the quality of life of older people (Carer+)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

...sults. A majority of care workers and informal carers declared the homecare they delivered was enhanced an enriched by digital competences and tools: over a 70% would use a tablet device in their caring practice in the future. The quality of life of the older people was improved, especially as regards the mental/emotional well-being, the attitudes toward ICTs and the capacity and competence to use ...
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A disruptive healthcare monitoring solution that by nature of what and how it monitors (IoT) improves home safety, user wellbeing and provides early warning to help avoid critical admissions (Loc8torHC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

Caring of ageing population will be one of the greatest challenges during this century. Most elderly people want to remain independent in their own homes for as long as possible. This decision can cause their children to worry about their parents’ wellbeing. This is when technology enabled care services (TECS), such as telecare and telehealth, provides a solution. TECS revenues in the EU28+2 count ...
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Remembering Yesterday, Caring Today Training

End date: Aug 29, 2016,

Our key aim is to increase knowledge and awareness of positive ways of working through reminiscence to improve the quality of life and reduce the isolation of families living with dementia. Our objective will be to train and support adult learners in different EU countries in creative reminiscence so that they can set up groups and work effectively with people with dementia and their family carers ...
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APPs for carers

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

...lnerable individuals. The delivery of these solutions is supported by informal carers, which are an inherent and indispensable component of current health and social care provision all across Europe. Caring can be very rewarding, but also very demanding and cause of social isolation, physical and psychological exhaustion, difficulties in reconciliation of work and care responsibilities. Support se ...
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Empowering Professionals to support Young Carers

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

...ers directly or indirectly.Young carers can be defined as young people who provide assistance or support to another family member. They carry out, often on a regular basis, significant or substantial caring tasks and assume a level of responsibility which would not usually be associated with their age group. The person receiving care is often a parent but can be a sibling, grandparent or other rel ...
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Sharing The European Pathways

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

...nd supported to fulfil their new role and work in a new manner, seeing themselves as supporting someone to ‘get a life’ in the community, rather then caring for them and controlling every aspect of their lives. We hope people with disabilities who moved out and their families will begin to see changes in the way staff work and will themselves come to realise that people with disabilities have the ...
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TRAining and recognition of informal Carers sKills

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

...d friends providing mostly unpaid care to frail seniors) is important to providing an adequate continuum between formal and informal care”. However, it points out that that combining work and caring duties can be difficult and can lead informal carers to quit their job or reduce their working hours, with negative effects on their career and social status. In fact, “providing personal care can be a ...
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Europejska wymiana doświadczeń w opiece i terapii zajęciowej dla osób niepełnosprawnych, chorych i niesamodzielnych

Start date: Dec 10, 2014, End date: Dec 9, 2015,

...enness to the needs of the labour market. Due to the fact that the population is aging (not only Polish but this problem also applies to other European countries) the demand for qualified medical and caring staff is continuously increasing. According to many forecasts concerning the labour market, a medical caregiver will be one of the most sought-after professions in a very short future. It is ...
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Health and socialcare workers: Employability Learning and Professionalisation

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

...ed education and training standards across the EU for this sort of work. 5) Health and Social Care work is seen as undesirable and low status with no recognised routes for progression into wider caring professions and with no HE-based training available in this specialist area for managers/leaders of care provision. The overall aim of HELPcare is to develop and transfer innovative practices in e ...
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Heppy - Healthcare: Parents Pathways and functional profile

Start date: Nov 1, 2011,

... by chronic pathologies, after leaving hospital, combining different typologies of assistance: medical, psycological, social etc.NeedsIn order to ensure a high level of quality of the service of home caring, the health carers need to add to their medical competences, a set of skills that are related to the understanding the specific social and job related needs of the person they have to assist.Ai ...
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ELMI - ENHANCING LABOUR MARKET INTEGRATION OF ELDERLY FAMILY CARERS THROUGH SKILLS IMPROVING

...that they care for an elderly or disabled relative several times a week, 4% do it once or twice a week and 8% do so less than once a week. Altogether, a quarter of people report being involved in caring for an elderly or disabled relative, amounting to 125 million carers in Europe. Caring, even if for a relative, requires a lot of skills and most of informal carers do not have the chance to attend ...
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Content mAterials to Raise Employability and Reinforce Skills of carers

...re cared within the family context, mainly by family members (www.bmsk.gv.at 2007) mostly without basic knowledge in care. In most of European country a current discussion on quality and financing of caring can be observed. Full professional services mostly exceed the financial resouces of the families and the public bodies, partly legalised ways (caring persons from East European countries) chall ...
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Language training needs of Migrants who work as caregivers of elderly People

...ersation topics that occur usually among caregiver and elderly people at home during the daily life activities2) Although a few of them attend specific training courses to acquire the capabilities of caring, these courses are focused more on practical activities than to learning the corresponding correct terminology, useful to interact not only with the person and the family but also with the othe ...
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Interactive Learning and Caring in Community

The aim of the project is the development of a curriculum for further vocational training for community based care for elderly people with mental health diseases, mainly people with dementia. The project aims to give a contribution to the re-organisation of community based services and networks through the development of an innovative and interactive training concept for community based dementia c ...
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Together for Young Adult Carers

The project targets young adult carers (YAC) with caring responsibilites (towards dependent parents, siblings or other relatives) which according to statistics, represent around 5% of people aged 18-24. This group, is further disadvantaged among an existing vulnerable group of our population(ie carers), significantly because their educational and employment opportunities are often limited by the r ...
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COSEFAMIE-Aidants familiaux - COmpétences au SErvice de la FAmille et de l'Emploi (skills for family and employment - Family carers)

The major issue and the COSEFAMIE-Family carers project main objective are to formalize a common professional accreditation across the European Union to enhance the Family carers’ experience and facilitate their employability.
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KEY compétences FOR Aidants familiaux

The aim of the Leonardo TOI project KEYFORA was to transfer an innovative method for the identification of key competences, especially on the basis of European standards and the acquisition of complementary skills by the target public of the project, that is to say, caregivers and home care services employees, including people from a migrant background, in order to promote their employability.
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