HomeCare for Dependent Elderly People – Educational Path for Informal Carers Erasmus Project

Project Title

HomeCare for Dependent Elderly People – Educational Path for Informal Carers

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Open and distance learning; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Demographic aging is one of the most serious challenges for Europe. The scale of this phenomenon and limitations in the access to institutional care for the elderly means that a rapid, professional and integrated on a European scale the development of informal care services is necessary. Currently, about 60% of carers of the elderly are the closest family. These carers, while providing home care, usually have their own intuition and life experience, and not proven, substantive theoretical and practical knowledge.

The project HomeCare for Dependent Elderly People – Educational Path for Informal Carers – HomeCare is a response to the existing and deepening skills gap in the provision of home care for the elderly by adults from their close environment.

The aim of the project is to strengthen the care skills (knowledge and skills) of adults-informal carers in home care over dependent older people and provide professional, personalized and relationship-based home care educational path for informal carers of elderly people.

As part of the HomeCare project, two key results will be created:
-The Training Pathway for Home Care for the Elderly for Informal Carers, which assumes a holistic approach to the issue of caring for an elderly dependent at home, i.e. provides basic knowledge and skills in caring and proactive approach to aging.
-Open online course for Informal Carers of Older People at Home (MOOC), which is intended to equip adults with necessary competences (knowledge and skills) to act as carers for dependent elderly people.

An adult-homecare carer will get open, universal access to a modular course that develops the care skills of older people through informal learning. Professionalizing the services of informal carers will complement and support the institutional care system for the elderly at their place of residence and in a more individualized way, which is particularly important and needed in the context of demographic forecasts.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 156255 Eur

Project Coordinator

FUNDACJA “MALOPOLSKA IZBA SAMORZADOWA” & Country: PL

Project Partners

• E-Training Solutions UG
• MEDIA CREATIVA 2020, S.L.
• VIRTUAL CAMPUS LDA