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Alzheimer and dementia (AD) is an important disease that causes memory, thought, and behavioural problems. It is the most common cause of dementia in the elderly and its frequency is increasing rapidly. According to the World Alzheimer Report 2016, there were 46.8 million people worldwide living with dementia in 2015 and this number will reach 131.5 million in 2050. People with Alzheimer and dementia generally require high levels of care, most of which is provided by informal or family caregivers. Without caregivers, people with dementia would have a poorer quality of life and would need institutional care more quickly, and national economies would be swept away by the advancing demographic tidal wave. People with AD are cared for at home by members of their family. And that those family members, in turn, have higher incidence of stress and depression, as well as lower overall quality of life. Project goal is to enable family caregivers to sustain a decent quality of life as they care for their loved one, and to provide a comfortable, dignified existence for people suffering from dementia. Project aims to develop family carers’ knowledge of Alzheimer’s and other dementias, and their caring skills, to enable them to respond more confidently to their family members’ needs. Project Aims are:1- to help family carers to break down their isolation, recognise themselves as carers, and develop digital literacy.2- to better understand and develop new approaches to address the family caregiving needs of patients with Alzheimer and other dementias (AD).3- to develop better strategies for the care of patients with AD and for alleviating caregiver burden.4- to improve the quality of life for caregivers of people with AD5- to show how can adult education be promoted more effectively in the context of health services in the public. 6- to analyse different approaches in different EU member countries and to use findings of that research wherever needed. The project will be carried out totally 6 partners. Within the Project, two Short Term Learning, Training activities to be held in Portugal and Slovenia in order participants to acquire skills to apply the methodology to adopt new training approaches for adult education. With the project, participants who will participate in short term training activities will increase their professional competence. The project will also provide new ideas to improve the professional knowledge and skills of participants. Participants will have the opportunity to see good practices in place and use new learning methodologies.Within the project local training courses will be organized for family caregivers in order to help family caregivers to stay physically and emotionally healthy. Training courses to the family caregivers will include the stages of the disease, the possible problems that can be seen in each phase and their coping methods (security measures, alternative solutions to the problems caused by forgetfulness, responsibility). In order to reduce the problems to be experienced in changing the patients' home, portable bars / strips that could be placed and placed in every place they went (yellow-coloured from the room to the kitchen, blue-coloured from the room or toilet / food and beverage signs) will be planned to be produced. In addition to this, patients with Alzheimer's may come together with young people and children, organizations which can be closer with soil and nature, hobby gardens and workshops, considering that it would slow down the worsening of the symptoms.Intellectual outputs of DemCARE Project are: Innovative Training Curriculum, Training Materials, Handbooks for Family Caregivers, ICT Based e-learning Module and Computer Games. These intellectual outputs will provide needed information and training to insure that patients' needs to Family caregivers. The project outputs will also provide family caregivers with information on how care should be managed at home, thus the quality of care for patients with AD will increase as well as provide a positive impact on caregivers' psychology. Thus, social inclusion and personal development will be provided.Also, two multiplier events (seminars) will be organized in Burdur and Slovenia with participation of relevant stakeholders for sharing and disseminating the intellectual outputs realised. Thus, the project will encourage them to use project outputs and methodologies and to take advantage of the developed training materials. Project will impact increase their awareness levels about the possibility of introducing adult education mechanisms and their responsibility in promoting social services.
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