Recommendations to training for informal and formal caregivers

BFW - Within the NMCE project, the basis for the training programme and the country-specific realisations should be the needs of elderly people and the people who care for them. So it should contain psycho-social elements and practical advice for the every-day life as well as information on what structures, institutions and possibilities exist already that increase the quality of life of elderly people and their families.

I.RI.FO.R - Although much work is being carried on in different directions, concerning aging and related problems, it appears that still more work has to be done. No clear and shared definition concerning non self-sufficient; difficulty in facing multi-factorial analysis and predictions; complex relationship between general health conditions and environmental, technological, social factors; all these circumstances makes it difficult to plan target actions in the domain of staff training. Finally, the high presence of submerged work concerning foreign caregivers, is a further factor of complexity for the sake of our scopes.
One conclusion though can be drawn with sufficient degree of solidity. This concerns the core of our social organisation. All studies show that positive relationships with elderly persons, respect, dignity, have a positive impact on the general state of health of elderly people.

WSINF - The own field research in 2010 was conducted in the Lodz Voivodship and Grater Poland Voivodship area for the project implementation under W. Ziolkowski’s guidance. The research revolved around the elderly in need of outside assistance in order to be able take part in everyday life. The level of physical abilities is described by elderly people as limited and bad by approximately 70% respondents and mental abilities as limited and bad by almost 50 % respondents. The elderly people suffer from many illnesses, which go back to the their youth. Those illnesses include circulatory system diseases, locomotor system disorders, respiratory system diseases, digestive system diseases and tumour diseases. Senile dementia and urinary incontinence affect people after 75. The vast majority of cases is often characterized by polypathology. On the basis of the questionnaires the lists of informal and formal carers’ needs were drawn up.

AIBU - Actions to be taken conducting regular trainings with an integrated approach encompassing the psychological and social aspects of old-age and caring for elderly people to families and relatives of elderly people and people who work with elderly people other than professionals.


Target group of elderly people in NMCE project and beneficiaries in training process

The core target group and element in the German realisation of the project are elderly migrants, their specific situations and needs, the support of the family members who care for them and the possibility for formal care-givers to learn more about them. So the direct beneficiaries of the training process in Germany are informal care-givers with migrant background and any formal care-givers who are interested in the special needs of elderly migrants.

The Polish project is orientated on elderly people. The direct beneficiaries of training process are students of the Faculty of Pedagogy and Health Promotion at the Academy of IT in Lodz (two specializations: Pedagogy in the field of social and caring work and Caring and educative pedagogy with health promotion).

In Italian and in Turkish projects elderly people are the target group.