Embrace dementia in an online environment

Dementia - Embrace dementia in an online environment

Erasmus+ project 2021-1-BE02-KA220-VET-000025664

Project duration: 01/01/2022 – 31/12/2023
Project budget: 220.144€
JKHK's budget: 22.388€

Partners:
CVO HIK, Belgium - lead partner
Järvamaa Kutsehariduskeskus (JKHK), Estonia
Centro Integrado de Formacion Professional Lorca, Spain
ROC Mondriaan, The Netherlands
Katholiek Onderwijs Vlaanderen, Belgium
Escola Profissional do Minho, Portugal
Stichting Landelijk Platform Odensehuizen, The Netherlands

Through this project we want to upscale the digital skills of teachers and trainers in both the formal and non-formal sector so that they are able to develop qualitative interactive online teaching modules that contribute to a culture of lifelong learning.
The developed modules focus on the theme of dementia in society. By doing so, we want to improve the quality of the existing care training programmes in the formal VET and the training programmes in the nonformal sector and adapt them to the increasing demand from society for quality education on this theme.

With the actual modules that will be developed through the implementation of this project, we are primarily aiming at family caregivers (20 persons) in the home environment of and the caregivers in training (80 persons) for the care institution for people with dementia.
The aim is twofold: on the one hand, to give these target groups a better understanding of the manifestation of dementia so that they can cope better with this condition and be better prepared and, on the other hand, to provide them with insights into the kind of care, guidance and support people with dementia need both in their home environment and in a care facility.

What the teachers/trainers have learned in their training, they will also effectively apply in developing three different high quality interactive online modules that will all be developed around the theme of dementia and evaluated by the end users within the context of this project.

Dementia MOOCs now available HERElink opens on new page.

For testing the MOOCs, take a look at the modules and fill in the questionnaire!

Module 1.1: Dementia. What is it? What is it to have it? And how to recognize it?link opens on new page

JKHK's topic is Module 1, LO 1: To identify different types of dementia and severity levelslink opens on new page

Student's feedbacklink opens on new page

teacher/tainer's feedbacklink opens on new page

Module 2.2: Supporting, guiding and caring for people with dementialink opens on new page

JKHK's topic is Module 2, LO 2: To provide professional care and support psychosocial wellbeing in an institution during the early stages of dementia, focused on physical and leisure activities (including care for physical environment)link opens on new page

Student's feedbacklink opens on new page

Teacher/tainer's feedbacklink opens on new page

Module 3: Empowerment around dementialink opens on new page

JKHK's topic is Module 3, LO 6: To understand which specific factors needs to be taken into account in the care for people from minority groups like people with intellectual disabilities, multimorbiditieslink opens on new page