Skills Training and Re-skilling for Carers of Peop..
Skills Training and Re-skilling for Carers of People with Dementia
Start date: Dec 1, 2010,
The project focuses on creating a methodology and content for improving the skills of the emerging job figure of Carers for People with Dementia, by creating a technology multi-platform with educational data regarding dementia and on how to best care for elderly. It is a known phenomenon that more aged people are slowly being diagnosed with this condition, and since the families might not want to send their loved ones away in a specialised home, they are engaging carers that either live-in completely, or else they get regular professional visits that are supplemented also by putting technology solutions in the person's home to monitor and help them when they are alone. In both cases, such a job needs proper preparation, skilling and also re-skilling since new advancements might make present knowledge obsolete.The platform (available in EN, IT, ES, RO, SW, NL) will provide opportunities for collaboration, discussion and sharing experiences between users (carers for people with dementia) from all over the EU. The main focus is to provide:* Content that is easy to find and easy to understand in a variety of languages* Accessibility to high-level specialised knowledge base posted by professionals* Online community of carers and other stakeholdersThe consortium is a mix of medical and technical experts that will create a methodology, content and then test this out with a pilot. Volunteer carers or people that want to equip themselves with skills to be able to work in this challenging new employment area, will utilise the system for a period of not less than 9 months and then record their own experiences. The consortium will then validate the results obtained, and finalise the adaptation of the materials in preparation for a public EU-wide launch of the platform. Thanks to partners that already work on teaching vocational figures in healthcare, a certification may be given, as long as the carers themselves sit for an exam that will test out the knowledge obtained.
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