euPrevent Seniorenfreundliche Gemeinde in der EMR (Q4299458)
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Project Q4299458 in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | euPrevent Seniorenfreundliche Gemeinde in der EMR |
Project Q4299458 in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands |
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983,167.53 Euro
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1,966,335.05 Euro
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50.0 percent
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1 September 2016
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31 December 2019
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Maastricht University
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50°55'49.55"N, 5°21'49.10"E
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50°53'16.48"N, 5°58'10.78"E
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50°38'46.07"N, 5°34'39.76"E
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50°35'29.94"N, 5°51'53.10"E
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51°3'38.63"N, 6°6'27.61"E
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50°50'9.06"N, 5°42'59.08"E
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51°0'2.23"N, 5°53'11.33"E
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50°51'4.93"N, 5°41'27.49"E
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50°16'46.99"N, 6°7'49.66"E
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Demographic change has a fundamental impact on regional and Euroregional care systems. According to a Eurostat forecast, the proportion of people over 65 will increase from 17% (2010) to 30% (2060). At the same time, the proportion of working people in the population is falling. These developments pose major challenges for the EMR. As stated in the report "Alt und behindert" by the independent Berlin-Institut, there will be considerably more elderly people in need of care in the future. Demented people will be the second largest group of people who need intensive care on a daily basis. Psychological suffering will also increase. This development leads to new opportunities for society in economic and social terms. The increased life expectancy can be considered as an economic good: older people, as buyers of products and services, contribute to economic growth. According to the Berlin-Institut, there has never been such a well-educated, healthy and prosperous segment of the population of the elderly in our society. This group wants to make greater use of its rights as a citizen and participate in public life. The partners of the EMR want to exploit this potential. As early as 2002, the WHO published the opinion "Active Ageing: a Policy Framework" in which it defined three pillars for active ageing: 1. Safety. Based on these three pillars and the EMR's 2020 Strategy, the requested euPrevent SFC project aims to create seniors-friendly municipalities, taking particular account of mental health, municipalities that are care, carer and inclusion-friendly. By creating an inclusive, cross-generational social space in which senior citizens and their carers are integrated into everyday economic and social life, the participating municipalities experience that their support structures for older fellow citizens are being strengthened. To achieve this project goal, the project activities are concentrated around three main areas of action: social inclusion, informal care and prevention of dependency of care (care prevention). With a view to the fundamental aspects described, the project focuses on three target groups: 1. people who currently act as informal carers (including family carers who work in their immediate social environment for people with age-depression or dementia), 2. potential informal carers (this concerns people over 65 who run the risk of age-depression) and 3. people in need of care (people over 65 with onset of age-depression and/or Alzheimer's). A total of 10 municipalities per country will be selected as project partners. The project consists of three phases. Phase 1 involves the selection of municipalities and the carrying out of a needs analysis in these municipalities. In phase 2, the activities will be selected from the so-called activity buffet and then implemented. Activities shall be designed to contribute to the achievement of the above overarching objectives. By making use of the activity buffet, the municipalities are provided with tailor-made solutions. In phase 3, the lead partner will carry out an evaluation of each participating municipality. This evaluation forms the basis for a so-called sustainability plan to be drawn up for each municipality and also for the EMR as a whole. In addition to this concrete range of activities, cross-border publicity campaigns will be held. In particular, we would like to focus on the presentation and comparison of relevant demographic data and data at regional or municipal level. On the latter point, the project will receive support from the Netherlands Central Statistical Office (CBS), ensuring cooperation with the German and Belgian sides. It is important to share existing knowledge and spend resources as efficiently as possible. The network led by the euPrevent EMR Foundation enables the Euroregional exchange of knowledge. As previous projects have shown, great importance should be attached to exchanges between the actors involved. Two measures will be taken to achieve the objective: 1. As far as possible, existing activities will be made accessible to all countries concerned (in all three national languages), so that they can be targeted throughout the EMR. 2. Uniform (scientifically guided) assessments, evaluations, data inventories and publicity campaigns will take place throughout the EMR. (English)
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