Healthy and Active Ageing
Home / Healthy and Active Ageing
80
Older people receive a monthly Mediterranean food basket
1400
Beneficiaries and carers
50
Seminars in KAPI and old people's homes
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What is it?
Hygiene, safety and empowerment interventions for the disabled, elderly and caregivers who either live in poverty or face serious health problems and live in remote areas of the Region of Western Greece.
1. Home vistits
Personalised home interventions aimed at independent living and healthy ageing. Individuals are identified only after referral from the social services of the partner municipalities. The first intervention involves a detailed recording of the needs, emotional and mental balance of the elderly and their carers, as well as the living conditions in terms of safety and hygiene. Subsequently, an individualised method of intervention is designed, according to the needs of the person and the carer. During the subsequent interventions, care advice is provided, ergonomic interventions are made, food, sanitary material or walking, support and mobility aids are offered.
2. Actions in the community
- Advocacy activities, fall prevention, preparation of meals of high nutritional value, Byzantine icon painting and handicrafts in KAPI and nursing homes.
- Intergenerational workshops for children and older people, role-playing games in schools, scientific lectures in universities.
- Training health and social care professionals to develop empathy and independent living through experiential seminars and modern technological equipment (e.g. serious game, virtual reality).
- Volunteering opportunities for older people to promote active ageing.
We take care of those
who took care of us
Benefits:
- Gerontological vulnerability testing
- Exercises with an old age and disability simulation suit
- Training in care and self-care for the elderly and their carers with modern technological equipment (serious game, VR)
- Mental and physical empowerment of older people
- Advice on hygiene and safety at home
- Ergonomic home modifications for better access and independent living
- Provision of orthopaedic equipment and mobility aids
- Provision of a monthly basket of Mediterranean food to needy elderly people
- Online seminars on loss and bereavement
- Legal advice
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