Social Inclusion of Elderly People

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The project is targeted at 45 thousand elderly inhabitants of Latvia-Lithuania border region - the former districts of Daugavpils and Rezekne and the districts of Utena and Moletai. It aims at improvement of the quality of social services for home care with newly trained mobile teams - teams of professional care-takers providing home-based social assistance to seniors including assistance in taking care of themselves, basic medical assistance, cleaning and cooking. The project intends to improve community-based social home-care services and infrastructure using new methods of help at home and self-help activities for aging in comfort. Project activities will include theoretical trainings, networking, experience exchange of and study visit to Falun, Sweden for mobile team specialists and improvement of social home-care services for elderly persons with elaboration of a handbook for the mobile teams as a guidebook. The guidebook will set out the methods on provision of a good quality home-care social service to elderly people. Mobile teams will receive four specialised vehicles and specialised equipment to provide wider range and better quality social home-care services. The project will train 40 mobile team specialists and will improve equipment for mobile teams in 4 districts (Daugavpils, Rēzekne, Utena and Moletai) and 1 municipality (Ilūkste) of Latvia-Lithuania cross-border region directly benefiting 1300 elderly persons. Information added on 2020-04-28, regarding the mitigation of the effects of COVID-19 (the corona virus pandemic that started in 2019) (English language only): COVID-19 patients who do not have a personal car often face the challenge to get home from the hospital to continue the recovery process. They are not allowed to use public transport so Rēzekne district municipality is ready to provide the assistance to the local residents by offering the specialized vehicle: the equipped minibus Volkswagen Crafter. The minibus was purchased in the project LLI-341 “Social Inclusion of Elderly People” (Aging in Comfort). The project intends to improve community-based social home-care services and infrastructure by applying new approaches of help at home and self-help activities allowing for aging in comfort.

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