NVQ Social caregiver at home comprises 150 hours of education, half of which are practical lessons. In such a short time, certain important contents are not touched on in sufficient depth. - Social workers are often burnt out, as everyone takes care of more than 7 users (Source: Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for Social Welfare). The aim of the project was to provide innovative knowledge to the pilot group of 25 educators and students of NVQ Social Care at Home, which: - protects them from burnout - helps them improve communication with the elderly - teaches them methods to strengthen the cognition of older people and improve social contacts with their families, as this is one of the basic tasks of social workers. These innovative contents were at the end put in certain extent into video content (provided in Slovene, English, Danish) which is being distributed: via webpage/platform of leading partner, current and past students of NVQ received videos via partner Social Chamber of Slovenia (newsletters, webpage news, magazine news), via newsletter and webpage news of partner Cene Štupar, in Denmark through: Brain+ app for treatment of mild to moderate dementia, through the municipality therapist newsletters, union website.
Social careres are very often burnout and lack the knowledge about communication with elderly/people with dementia and cognitive training skills for elderly and people with dementia. We decided to prepare innovative educational program for NVQ (National Vocational Qualification) Social Caregiver which offers knowledge in the field of communication with elderly/people with dementia and cognitive training. Currently students of this program don´t receive such a knowledge. A social worker at home is an expert who offers the most direct and comprehensive help to the elderly at home. Market needs: - The number of beneficiaries of home care is constantly increasing: in 2006 there were 5,328, and in 2019 already 8,339 (Source: Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for Social Welfare). - The elderly want to stay in their home environment for as long as possible and go to a nursing home only in the period when they already need a lot of help/care - The global expert public is striving for a model of home care, as a model of the future in the care of the elderly (trends in the EU have been in favor of this for 20 years).