Mobile Training for Home and Health Caregiver For People with Disabilities and Older People

M-Care – Mobile Training for Home and Health Caregiver For People with Disabilities and Older People

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People with disabilities (especially those with mobility impairments) depend heavily on personal care givers (PCGs). This assistance is crucial in ensuring a daily quality of life Die Kompetenzen dieser niedrigqualifizierten Menschen zum Nutzen der Begleiteten zu entwickeln ist das Hauptanliegen von M-CARE.People with disabilities (especially those with mobility impairments) depend heavily on personal care givers (PCGs). While this assistance is crucial in ensuring a daily quality of life (assisting with basic tasks such as getting dressed, eating, taking a bath/shower), it is still quantitatively and qualitatively a huge problem. Few PCGs get a proper training, if any, while such formal training hardly exists in EU countries. Most PCGs are low skilled, have to be trained on the field, thus making it a very laborious and at the same time a tricky “adventure” for people with disabilities, but equally for e.g. older people who make use of them.Goals of the M-Care projectRaising competence levels of these low-skilled people to be benefit of care recipients is at the core of M-CARE. It aims to ensure that VET centers can offer such training anywhere anytime, for low-skilled people (without jobs), or people that want to extend their service provision (independent nurses, caretakers, etc.). Blended training approaches such as simulation both via video and animations, audio, textual training format, including hands-on practicing will be supported by the project
M-Care will generate:•    a dedicated PCG curriculum and relevant training material for different disabilities, applicable in every country in the EU and beyond, provided under a creative commons license (so “free”); •    innovative ICT-based Web 2.0 mobile/online learning platforms (PC, smartphone and tablet PC) with multilingual interfaces, developed as Open Source applications (“free”), provided freely to VET centres; supported by a learning methodology;You will find up-to-date-information on developments and activities: M-CARE consortium consists of following partners: Logo - Life Long LearningThis project is funded with support from the European Commission. This website reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein