Project Elcanet
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Project Elcanet
Elcanet Network on family support in elderly care policies PARTNERS’ COAT OF ARMS AND URLS THEMES AND OBJECTIVES Increasing elderly population Increasing demand for benefits and services Family and/or elder isolation Elcanet Project: Meeting on the welfare models for elderly people in various European countries Elaboration of improving strategies TARGET GROUP LOCAL AUTHORITIES Why: Municipalities have the tasks to identify problems and needs at local level and develop strategic solutions. FAMILIES OF ELDERLY PEOPLE Why: there is a lack of support and lack of information towards this target group. ELDERLY CARE SERVICE PROVIDERS (profit and non profit) Why: there is a need for closer cooperation between public and private actors in order to decrease costs and create opportunities for new business development and especially for women. NGOs /VOLUNTEERS Why: There is a need of greater awareness of their role, there is need for more training of volunteers, and an increased participation of citizens. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS Why: they can provide new skills and practice to the operators in the field. UNIVERSITIES (APPLIED RESEARCH) – SMEs INVOLVED IN ICT Why: There is a substantial amount of ICT based solutions that need to be disseminated on a broader scale. There is a need of increasing the use in the context of services’ implementation. 4 WORKING GROUPS • Education and Training (for the home service workers) • Home service for elderly people • Activation and Prevention • ICT possibilities (chances for new technologies in support of elderly people living at home) MONOTHEMATIC SEMINAR EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES IN THE HOME ASSISTANCE FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE SWOT ANALYSIS BEST PRACTICE The technical seminar was a turning a point in the project as it helped make the gender perspective more visible and include it in the global project ELCANET, along with the equal opportunities concept in the service access Elements of interest: Geographical dispersion Unequal purchasing power Complex burocracy procedures Delay in the application of the services with the exception of a proven emergency Population aging, increase in the number of people over 65 years old WORKING GROUP EDUCATION AND TRAINING: • Professionals working in the elderly care sector • Survey of terms • Comparison of the activities of the Case Manager WORKING GROUP HOME SERVICES Mapping the services provided for elders to stay longer at home with a good quality life WORKING GROUP ACTIVATION AND PREVENTION • • Best practice on the interception of frailty Activation and prevention towards elderly people and caregivers WORKING GROUP ICT POSSIBILITIES Mapping the Best Practice Making a shared Tutorial Education and information activities EDUCATION AND TRAINING INTERNATIONAL COORDINATOR: FINLAND Transnational coordinator: Mrs. Sari Teeri – [email protected] EDUCATION AND TRAINING CASE MANAGER: The tasks of case manager are: Contact person, who can represent outside the service he/she belongs to A key coordinator of the activities and services provided The role of case manager is: Contact person between user and caregiver Multiprofessional coordinator Responsible for individual healthcare projects (planning) Responsible for monitoring and evaluating Financial accountability Define objectives (with the equipe) Responsabile for checking the quality of the service EDUCATION AND TRAINING Education required High school diploma and Professional courses Bachelor’s degree in social services or health care Specific education is provided within organizations A specific bachelor’s degree in case management is still missing Lifelong education Improvement of networking Fundraising (new channels) Multiprofessional competences Team management Analizing the potential financial resources of the territory (funds and voluntary services) Facing new challanges in integration and diversification of the needs Prevention Marketing Future perspective Given the diversity of needs, and the complexity of organizations, the case manager’s networking skills are always more strategical and fundamental. For the future a specific training course on network management is necessary. EDUCATION AND TRAINING “Look after me!” Ravenna Programme Objective (Ministerial Decree - DM 09/08/2012): Title of the project: “Interventions for improving the quality of personal and professional life of women, including migrants who are employed in care work Actions: Single shared database and unique register of carers and their implementation in order to cross the requests of supply and job demand Enhancement of caregivers’ professional competence Begin a process of integration of the work of family caregivers in the network of services More attention for the regularization of care work Best personal quality of life of family caregivers Project duration: 24 months Target groups: family assistants, Italian or foreign, resident in the territory“look after me! Service” to the families Education of caregivers: n. 15 courses for 20-30 hours including theory and a practice, starting next May and probably ending up to half August 2013 (in the respect of each participant’s professional service) Dissemination, through leaflets, on the territory (Cervia, Ravenna, Faenza) HOMECARE SERVICES INTERNATIONAL COORDINATOR: SWEDEN Transnational coordinator: Mrs. Anita Karlsson – [email protected] HOMECARE SERVICES The main focuses: • Assessment of the elder’s needs • Providing the more adequate service • Problems in accessing the services Things to do: • More training for the Operators • More follow-ups for each case • Forums for the operators to discuss and solve problems within the team • Strengthening their professional role HOMECARE SERVICES “HCP – Home Care Premium” Ravenna … because there’no place better than your house… Objective: • • • • Develop and support, during 2013, interventions of home care services for public employees/ civil servants, retired from public administration and their families The Municipality of Ravenna and other municipalities in the District (Cervia and Russi) have joined this project, financed by INPS (National Social Security Institute), an innovative and experimental one in Home Care assistance. Start date of social welfare programmmes: 1° June 2013 Target groups: retired Not self-sufficient public servants belonging to the categories of the so-called “Neither / Nor” that is neither too poor to access public services, nor too rich to be able to financially support private services. Web site and Information http://www.inpdap.gov.it/wps/wcm/connect/internet/internet/inpdap/prestazioni/attivitasociali/anziani/home_care_premium/ ACTIVATION AND PREVENTION INTERNATIONAL COORDINATOR: ITALY Transnational coordinator: Mr. Maurizio Piolanti – [email protected] ACTIVATION AND PREVENTION Shared definition of the issues: Activation = active approach by various actors (institutions, services, volunteering, etc.) and organized actions addressed to all people in conditions of frailty. Prevention = actions aimed at preventing and delaying as much as possible the conditions of dependency in the elderly, also by educating and training the elder themselves and with the help of Volunteering and the use of new assistive technologies Frailty = Situation of precarious balance in the overall condition of the elderly person, who becomes increasingly vulnerable. Linked to progressive loss of self sufficiency ACTIVATION AND PREVENTION Mesures of activation Use of a statistical-epidemiological system (predictive multivariate model) in which already existing information is analyzed (hospitalizations, admissions to the emergency department, specialist examinations, living alone, etc.) and information on physical and social conditions is sought. Collection of information held by general practitioners to highlight psychological and social factors of frailty Mesures of prevention Monitoring and assistance of the frail elderly person, by trained health or social service staff (primary and secondary prevention). Joint action during events which are potentially dangerous for the community (Extreme weather conditions – natural calamity). ACTIVATION AND PREVENTION Things to do: 1. Active interception: identifying the person in need before he/she has to address the services 2. Enhancement of famillies: helping the helpers 3. Increase residual capacities of the elder 4. Promote stimulating opportunities, keeping alive the personal interests of the frail person by increasing the moments spent with others. ICT POSSIBILITIES INTERNATIONAL COORDINATOR: ITALY Transnational coordinator: Mr. Guido Matrella – [email protected] MAPPING How any Municipality is getting ready to use ICT technologies in support of home assistance The national law frameworks with particular reference to privacy issues A list of best practices MAPPING (examples) Ascoltalibri (The hearing book): the initiative involves listening to talking books with MP3 players for individual, assisted and group listening for users in residential and semi residential structures, dependent elders and serious disabled (Italy) Telesoccorso (Teleassistance): the person in risk situation at home sends a code message to a specialized call centre (118) who identifies the users and intervenes. The service works 24/7 (Italy) Aiuto (Help) Key: program for mobile phones with dedicated numbers of family members and/or caregivers receiving a text or an automatic call with the indication of where the user is in that moment (Finland) Med – o – wheel Smart: drug programmable automatic dispenser. Emits signals at the agreed hour and provides the right drug at the right dose according the prescritpion (Finland) TUTORIAL A short document made of a list of guidelines on the partners’ local experience, meant as the best possible advice for a disabled / elder wanting to stay at home as long as possible by exploiting the new technologies. Highlighting the strengths and weaknesses you can find dealing for the first time with ICT projects Progetto Elcanet: www.elcanetproject.eu TUTORIAL ( examples) TRAINING- INFORMATION EVENTS PLANNING OR IMPLEMENTATION of training and information activities about ICT issues for elders, their families, the caregivers or the operators in general “PASSEPARTOUT” (Current and future tools and technologies in the home assistance) Unione Terre Verdiane e Borgo Val di Taro TARGET 1° meeting: Home care service operators: operators of the day centres for elders and disabled, Elders Associations, Disabled Associations, Health and Welfare Cooperatives TARGET 2° meeting: Technical staff and Managers of the technical department of the District’s Municipalities, Counsellors on social policies, Town Planning and Public Works TARGET 3° meeting: Students of the 3rd year of the course in Nursing at the University of Parma, and the 3rd year of the course in Physiotherapy Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you sow. Thanks to everyone !