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careNET: Building ICT competences in the long-term care sector to enhance quality if life for older people and those at risk of exclusion
The CareNET project aims at developing a set of ICT competences in two identified ‘at risk’ target groups: care-workers and older persons. The project is designed to work in a synergistic way to tackle identified problems in the low skilled and under professionalised care-worker sector while at the same time promoting social inclusion and enhancing the quality of life of older people.
An online social network will be put in place for care-workers, experts, researchers and pracitioners with relevance to ICT competences in care-systems, and a set of workshops for care-workers will be organised to pilot the elaborated professional development pathways and tools.
What resonates amongst both groups – care workers and care recipients – is their exposure to the risk of social exclusion as they are both often at the margins of society and likely to be the victim of digital and social divides. ICTs and associated competences have been shown to be a critical component in mitigating these risks of exclusion and helping to support an increased quality of life. The acquisition of digital skills is essential for these actors in the family employment sector where we find over half of all private individual employers aged 60 years old and over, and low-skilled women representing the majority of household employees. In response to these pressing needs the CareNet project will design, develop and pilot learning paths and resources based on cooperative learning between care workers and care recipients to promote improved quality of care and quality of life through the acquisition of care related digital competences. In addition, to answer specific needs, learning modules for individual learning, addressing ICT competences for employability and self-development (care workers) and ICT competences for active ageing (older people) will be created. In this way the project will contribute to: the identified needs for professionalization of care workers; increased access to learning opportunities; personal development of care workers; overcoming the isolation of both care workers and older people by promoting social enterprise, active citizenship and active ageing.
For this reason, the project seeks to design, develop and pilot:
- learning paths and resources based on cooperative learning between care workers and care recipients
- to promote improved quality of care and quality of life through the acquisition of care related digital competences.
- In addition, to answer specific needs, learning modules for individual learning, addressing employability and self-development of ICT competences for care workers and active ageing ICT competences for elders, will be provided and piloted.
The project will contribute to:
- professionalization;
- increased access to learning opportunities;
- personal development of care workers;
- overcoming the isolation of care workers and elders by promoting active citizenship and active ageing.
Details of on the project can be found at the project website: http://www.carenetproject.eu/
Empowering Lives, Supporting Affectivity
ELSA yra daugiakultūrinis projektas, finansuojamas Europos Komisijos, orientuotas į specialiuose priežiūros namuose dirbančių profesionalių slaugytojų bei senyvo amžiaus žmonėmis besirūpinančių giminaičių mokymosi poreikius. Pagrindinis projekto ELSA tikslas yra sukurti vaizdo filmus, skaidres, tekstus, kurie galėtų padėti ir suteikti informacijos žmonėms (profesionalams ir giminaičiams), besirūpinantiems silpnais pagyvenusio amžiaus žmonėmis.
Šiame daugiakalbiame internetiniame tinklapyje yra patalpinti vaizdo filmai ir tekstai, sukurti projekto partnerių iš skirtingų šalių. Tinklapis yra susietas su Facebook ir YouTube, siekiant sukurti socialinius tinklus, atvirus profesionalams ir giminaičiams.
ELSA projektas siekia surinkti originalią informaciją individams ir organizacijoms.
Naujovės projekte:
a) idėja keistis patarimais ir informacija tarp profesionalų ir giminaičių, dažniausiai nesidalinančių tarpusavyje patarimais apie silpnų pagyvenusio amžiaus asmenų priežiūrą;
b) idėja surinkti asmenines patirtis ir istorijas ne tik giminaičių, bet ir profesionalų, dažniausiai įsitraukusių į veiklas, susijusias tik su jų profesionaliais įgūdžiais;
c) projekto dalyvių sukurtų vaizdo filmų, nuotraukų, istorijų, trumpų interviu, knygų apžvalgų silpnų pagyvenusio amžiaus asmenų priežiūros tema ir asmeninių, jaudinančių giminaičių patirčių, įgytų prižiūrint pagyvenusio amžiaus asmenis, panaudojimas.
Partneriai, surinkę vaizdo filmus, nuotraukas ir tekstus, sukurtus skirtingose šalyse, sukūrė keturis socialinius tinklus savo nacionalinėmis kalbomis, susietus su Facebook ir YouTube, atvirus profesionalams ir giminaičiams, kur jie galės rasti patarimus, informaciją, vaidmens modelius ir tarpusavio paramą.