Context/background of project Move your Hands for Dementia (MYH4D) project aims to support adult and senior educators in the extending and developing competences on educating dementia health literacy to adults and seniors. A more health literate dementia community is the first step to improve a more inclusive and equal “dementia friendly community”. Health literacy about dementia provides chances for engaging adults and seniors to face health and environment with more responsibility and capacity to make favorable choices to health and to improve quality of life of persons living with dementia and their family members. MYH4D consortium is composed by four public and private expertise partners involved in dementia (IT, BE, BU, SI) and four technical EDA/ICT partners (GR, ES, CY, IT). MYH4D Objectives Adults and seniors education about dementia aims to equip them with knowledge, know-how, skills and/or competences. Health and family literacy about dementia has got an impact at individual level in terms of personal, emotional, sociality, health and wellbeing learning advantages and an impact at social level in terms of implementing a more inclusive community. There is a wide range of evidence showing that poor health literacy limits a range of lifestyle choices and creates inside the society differences and inequalities. Improving inclusion of persons with dementia and increasing equity to access to public and private services mean answering to their needs inside the community: social needs (as cafeteria and restaurant), cultural needs (like museums, libraries, book shops, adult education centers...), health and wellbeing (gyms, parks, health services), primary needs services (supermarkets, bakeries, groceries...). With the addition of knowledges and competences about dementia the community could become more skilled, offering concrete opportunities and facilities to persons with dementia inside the society. The challenge for adult and senior educators as facilitators is to improve adult non-formal learning training about dementia, that is becoming an increasing social priority, also using open and distance e-learning. The hard months of corona virus is mandatorily pushing adults and seniors to discover day by day the enormous potentiality of open and distance e-learning. They are much more accessible and helpful than we have ever thought, disclosing plenty of opportunities to receive, to give information and to interact. Number and profile of participants; Target direct: - 100 adult/senior teachers and educators - 80 persons with dementia - 160 family caregivers - 20 EDA leaders - 20 policy makers Target indirect: - 10.000 adult and senior informed by communications - 500 adults and seniors involved in dementia training courses and activities - 10 researchers - communicators (journalists/scientific communicators): 120 communications are expected - 100 stakeholders Description of activities; Results (I.O.) 1) "Be connected" M.O.O.C. aims is to give instruments to adult and senior teachers to improve their competences on dementia in adult non-formal learning training about dementia health literacy. 2) Community of Practice (CoP) for adult educators aims to share ongoing adults/seniors learning training to persons with dementia and to family caregiver. CoP for persons with dementia and family members is to share life daily needs and solutions about Assistive Technology Initiatives/devices, gamification, good practices, local facilities. 3) Guidelines for EDA leaders and for policy makers aim to improve sustainable educational strategies and policies about dementia. Methodology to be used in carrying out the project MYH4D management is structured on the five major project management process groups: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling and closing. EFQM quality approach is provided to guarantee participate leadership, buy in and impact. Results and impact envisaged and finally the potential longer term benefits. Expected impact on direct target: 1) To adult/senior teachers and educators - More skilled adult/senior teachers and educators about teaching about dementia and improving health literacy in adults and seniors and to to person with dementia and their family caregivers 2) To persons with dementia and family caregivers - Improvement of e-health literacy of persons with dementia and quality of life 3) To family caregivers - Improvement of e-health literacy and soft skills family caregivers 4. EDA leaders and policy makers - Improvement of knowledge and strategic tools to develop dementia educational plans and integrated policy Expected impact on indirect target: 5) To adults/seniors - A more health littered/inclusive society to persons living with dementia. 6) To researchers - Exploitations as articles/researches 7) journalists/communication agencies - Exploitations as popular communication to break stigma to dementia 8) stakeholders - Reinforcing networking alliance
Move your Hands for Dementia (MYH4D) project aims to support adult and senior educators in the extending and developing competences on educating dementia health literacy to adults and seniors. A more health literate dementia community is the first step to improve a more inclusive and equal “dementia friendly community”. Health literacy about dementia provides chances for engaging adults and seniors to face health and environment with more responsibility and capacity to make favourable choices to health and to improve quality of life of persons living with dementia and their family members. The specific objectives of the MYH4D project are: - Improving adult educators skills about dementia - Increasing health literacy about dementia of the whole adult population - Improving friendly and inclusive community to persons living with dementia, at different levels The project not only fully met its expectations as demonstrated by the Evaluation report and by the end users testimonials, but also expanded the scope of the proposal by reaching and involving even more end-users than those initially expected.
The aim of this project is to deal with the lack of awareness about dementia which is prevalent in many countries: this results in stigmatization, barriers to early diagnosis, treatment and social inclusion. Dementia as European public health priority means improving health literacy in adult and senior population, health and social dementia policy and support to family caregivers. Adults and seniors education about dementia aims to equip them with knowledge, know-how, skills and/or competences. Health and family literacy about dementia has got an impact at individual level in terms of personal, emotional, sociality, health and wellbeing learning advantages and an impact at social level in terms of implementing a more inclusive community. With the addition of knowledges and competences about dementia the community could become more skilled, offering concrete opportunities and facilities to persons with dementia inside the society. The challenge for adult and senior educators as facilitators is to improve adult non-formal learning training about dementia that is becoming an increasing social priority, also using open and distance e-learning.