To build skills and competences to social professionals on system approaches and design of Long Term Care for Elderly and People with Disabilities with the focus on community care, mainly home care. Examples from Germany and EU.
Specific training objectives: social professionals will learn:
- General risk and poverty reduction groups and their specific needs in the society and, become aware of the extended approach defining the needs – physical and psycho-social.
- To become familiar with entitlement, assessment tools regarding eligibility, the benefit package, scope of services and service provision.
- To learn about how the public and private provider mix is placed on the market.
- To become familiar with the role of informal care in the entire system and mechanisms how to boost family and neighbourhood support through financial means, pension fund contribution subsidies, training in quality assurance and respite care for informal care persons.
- To learn about basic elements in personal planning derived from assessment procedure and the request to meet a target agreed by beneficiary, family and professionals.
