QualitY care for quality aging:

European Indicators for Home Care

Quality Care for Quality Aging:

European Indicators for Home Care

 

In the light of the emerging socio-demographic evolution of the European social structure, becomes relevant for European public entities at all levels (national, regional, local) to make efforts in order to reorganize and better fit policy intervention strategies to prevent and tackle the ageing of the population and the related increase (actual and expected) of the prevalence of social needs among the elderly.

The adaptation of the current welfare system, toward the conjugation of economic performance with objectives of inclusion and appropriateness of care, is still not touching with enough potency Long Term care of non self sufficient people.

Quality Care for Quality Aging project starts from the assumption that Social Services of General Interest (SSGI) will constitute the main tool able to face the emerging needs of old people in condition of non self sufficiency.

The project wants to focus on a particular typology of SSGI which is the Home Health Care services and interventions in the context of the Long Term Care Systems for old people and intends to include both types of Home Care: home health care (social approach) and home care services (medical approach), but for sake of simplicity from now on we will refer to both, if not otherwise specified, by Home Health Care (acronym: HHC).

The Quality Care project intends to promote an interdisciplinary transnational workgroup, made up by members organizations coming from 7 European countries (Italy, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece and Spain), able to offer its contribution to:

· the improvement of the knowledge base on the situation of policies for the promotion of Home Health care for the elders comparing different national policies and checking how they comply with European Union suggestions, as well as demographic trends on aging;

· the exchange of information about the different realities of Home Health Care targeted to non self sufficient individuals aged 65 and over.

The project develops a tool (indicators) useful for the evaluation of quality in social services across Europe and promotes the development of networks of actors working in this field across countries, through the implementation of exchanges and the diffusion of good practices.

The project will permit the diffusion and implementation of innovative approaches across Europe, guaranteeing a cross-boarder sharing of best practices in organizational models and monitoring and assessment tools in the respect of the national, regional and local characterizations and peculiarities.

The project will perform more effective Home Health Care interventions in order to improve the access to quality services in the perspective of promoting and strengthening social inclusion.

Azienda ULSS 10 Veneto Orientale

Dr. Dario Zanon

Distric Director “Distretto del Litorale”

Via dell'Astese, 5 - 30021 Caorle (VE)

tel. +39 0421 213850

fax +39 0421 213813

dario.zanon@assl10.veneto.it

 

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the European Commission