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

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 project

Raising 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