Care farms provide nursing home care in the Netherlands
Care farms are extensively used in the Netherlands as an alternative to day care centres for people in need of care, including people with dementia. They aim to offer new care concept directed towards small-scale and homelike environments. The care is often organized in smaller units, usually with 6–8 residents, in which personal care and […]
Dementia trained hairdressers in UK care homes
The Lily Pins is a UK hairdressing company which provides dementia-trained hairdressers in care homes. Currently 12 hairdressers are serving 18 care homes in Kent, Essex, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire. It also employs beauticians and chiropodists. As a recent study found, hairdressing and other appearance-related services have an important role to play in the broader therapeutic […]
French Red Cross provide Alzheimer patients with bracelets for greater autonomy
The French Red Cross has just partnered with Bluelinea, an operator for connected lifestyle devices supporting dependent older persons in their homes, to provide persons with Alzheimer disease with a GPS bracelet which will enable them to move around more safely. The objective of this cooperation is to improve the autonomy and well-being of people […]
Shared ecological retirement housing in France
A group of pensioners have come together to set up the first housing cooperative for seniors based on democracy and ecology in Eastern Lyon, France. Seven years after their first discussions on the project, the building work has now started and should end around mid-2017. Because they did not want to end up in a […]
Dutch supermarket to spot old-age vulnerability and frailty
In the framework of the Super Care project run by the Dutch care organisation Royaal Zorg, some 20 employees of a supermarket in Den Hague will be trained to pay more particular attention to isolated vulnerable elderly shoppers. The idea is not to turn employees into care specialists but help detect loneliness and frailty among […]
Film ‘Twilight of a Life’ shows optimistic approach of old age and dependency
The Belgian-Israeli film director, Sylvain Biegeleisen, filmed the last moments he spent with his 94-year-old dying mother, discussing about life, laughing, singing, enjoying life together. Mother and son went through moments of complete clarity and assertiveness, and moments of loss of memory, in which she used another language, the language of caress. Although dealing with […]
Switzerland proposes new training module on elder abuse
The Swiss (French-speaking) University Center of Legal Medicine has developed, in partnership with the Lausanne University Hospital and the Health Institute and High School ‘La Source’, a new introductory training module (in French) on the medico-legal aspects of elder abuse entitled « Maltraitance envers les personnes âgées : aspects et soins médico-légaux ». This 7-day […]
Family foster care model in Finland
With the number of older people and frail older people in Finland is rising, along with the cost of care homes and nursing homes, Finnish public authorities, health policy experts, families and older people are looking for alternatives to both save money and offer older people the possibility to enjoy a safe and comfortable place […]
Philosophical discussion workshops
Since September 2010, a small group of older people and patients from the psychiatric centre of the hospital Saint-Michel in Belgium have been meeting twice a month in the Hergé library to discuss around philosophical topics of interest to the participants. Those workshops have been proposed by the Belgian intergenerational organisation Entr’Ages and are animated […]
SeniorenZentrum Krefeld registered as the first Eden facility in German-speaking countries
German Senior Center ‘SeniorenZentrum Krefeld’ set up by Renate Wapplinger (Eden Institute Europe Vienna, managing director) and Aase Porsmose (EDEN-Alternative® coordinator Denmark) works on the basis of the Eden-Alternative® approach aims to fundamentally change the support and care of the elderly and the quality of life of all – to improve – the elderly, their […]
Quality Certificate for Czech providers of social care services
Since 2011, in the Czech Republic, an external quality assessment has been made available to managers of care homes in order to improve the quality of care by helping them point out weaknesses in the provision of care and giving recommendations where improvement can be achieved. The Quality Certificate is an external certification system based […]
Web nurses to support informal carers in Hungary
A ‘Webnurse’ programme in Hungary has developed a website to support informal carers who take care of an elderly and/or ill person in her/his home. This website provides tutorial videos, help- desk and various useful links and services to assist carers in their every-day tasks. The Hungarian Charity Service of the Order of Malta (HCSOM), […]
