This two-year project addresses the problem of insufficient training provision in the field of adult care and the related outdated provision of care to dementia sufferers. It builds a partnership of five organisations from five countries, who bring into this project complementary expertise and experience in senior care, adult training, e-learning, software coding and development of training programmes. A large transnational network of Associated partners has been constituted to assist with and benefit from the project including VET and CVET providers, care providers, professional associations, local authorities and national organisations fighting dementia. The focus of this Strategic Partnership is to innovate through cooperative practice with the aim of developing an Integrated Platform to be used as tool for dementia care and a Vocational Education Training Package at a European level in order to: • improve the ways senior care professionals are trained to work with patients in person-centred mode; • provide them with the necessary digital skills, communication, problem solving and team building skills and specific sectoral skills in the care of dementia sufferers; • provide them with state-of-the-art guidance and digital tools to tackle dementia; • make the methodology accessible to informal carers in domestic setting; • ultimately improve dementia sufferers' condition In order to reach our aims, the objectives of this project are therefore to: • enhance a prototype platform to be used as a multilingual tool in dementia care, based on reminiscence therapy, allowing users to record and later use memories in the format of sound, images, text or videos • establish a baseline and create a comprehensive set of training tools (a training framework, 5 modules, 5 videos, 5 webinars) • pilot, test, evaluate and refine the training resources through training events and collaboration with our associated partners • identify and use tools to evaluate impact in the short, medium and longer term against the baseline • disseminate the outcomes widely through the transnational network of associated partners and through 5 multplier events in 5 countries • build an online network of expertise to exchange practice through the online communities hosted on the Integrated Platform Although the lingua franca will be English, the platform and the training programme will also be developed in French, German, Polish and Greek. The initial impact will be a demonstration of improved training provision for VET and CVET learners in the field of dementia care, acquired new core and sector-specific skills for the professional carers, but ultimately an improved treatment of dementia sufferers through reminiscence and namely: • Improvement in cognition, mood, and functional ability. • Reduction in the symptoms of depression. • Reduction in the strain experienced by carers and relatives. This is the ultimate goal of this project, to improve the well-being of dementia sufferers through improved training provision for carers and use of modern methodologies.
This two-year project addressed the problem of insufficient training provision in the field of adult care and the related outdated provision of care to dementia sufferers. It built a partnership of five organisations from five countries, who brought into this project complementary expertise and experience in senior care, adult training, e-learning, software coding and development of training programmes. The focus of this Strategic Partnership was to innovate through cooperative practice with the aim of developing an Integrated Platform to be used as tool for dementia care and a Vocational Education Training Package at a European level in order to: • improve the ways senior care professionals are trained to work with patients in person-centred mode; • provide them with the necessary digital skills, communication, problem solving and team building skills and specific sectoral skills in the care of dementia sufferers; • provide them with state-of-the-art guidance and digital tools to tackle dementia; • make the methodology accessible to informal carers in domestic setting; • ultimately improve dementia sufferers' condition In order to reach our aims, the objectives of this project were therefore to: • develop a platform to be used as a multilingual tool in dementia care, based on reminiscence therapy, allowing users to record and later use memories in the format of sound, images, text or videos • establish a baseline and create a comprehensive set of training tools (a training framework, 5 modules, 5 videos, 5 webinars) • pilot, test, evaluate and refine the training resources through training events and collaboration with our associated partners • identify and use tools to evaluate impact in the short, medium and longer term against the baseline • disseminate the outcomes widely through the transnational network of associated partners and through 5 multiplier events in 5 countries • build an online network of expertise to exchange practice through the online communities hosted on the Integrated Platform The platform and the training programme were developed in English, French, German, Polish and Greek. The initial impact has been a demonstration of improved training provision for VET and CVET learners in the field of dementia care, acquired new core and sector-specific skills for the professional carers, but ultimately an improved treatment of dementia sufferers through reminiscence and namely: • Improvement in cognition, mood, and functional ability. • Reduction in the symptoms of depression. • Reduction in the strain experienced by carers and relatives. This is the ultimate goal of this project, to improve the well-being of dementia sufferers through improved training provision for carers and use of modern methodologies.