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15Giu 2022 by rita

ALONE PROJECT: RESULTS OF AN INNOVATIVE PROJECT TO RAISE AWARENESS AND DEAL WITH EXISTENTIAL LONELINESS AMONG OLDER PERSONS

The Erasmus+ funded ALONE project has officially come to an end and all the resources produced during the thirty months of the project have been finalized. ALONE project aimed at educating health care professionals about the different dimensions of loneliness to be able to detect and recognize loneliness in all its forms among older people, encouraging them strengthening their ability to encounter loneliness in general and existential loneliness in particular. To reach these goals different materials have been developed: A guide collecting European best practices from health organizations and patients perspectives about existential loneliness; An international report about limitations in caring older persons related to existential loneliness encountered by healthcare professionals; A pedagogical report on the educational objectives and didactic contents of the training course addressed to health and social…

15Mag 2022 by rita

ALONE PROJECT REACHED ITS FINAL STEPS: 4th Project newsletter is out!

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The Erasmus+ funded Alone project has officially come to an end and the last steps took place. FINAL TRANSNATIONAL PARTNERS MEETING: The consortium met for the final transnational partners online, on the 11th of April 2022. In that occasion partners had the chance to finalize the last project outputs, make the point on the achieved results and the last upcoming tasks. TRAINING CURRICULUM ON EXISTENTIAL LONELINESS AMONG OLDER PEOPLE FOR HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL PROFESSIONALS: RESULTS OF THE PILOTINGS IN THE DIFFERENT PARTNERS COUNTRIES In the last months partners have been involved in the piloting of the training curriculum on existential loneliness among older people addressed to health care and social professionals. This innovative training aimed at raising awareness and giving information on loneliness, and more specifically on existential loneliness,…

07Mar 2022 by rita

Training Curriculum on Existential Loneliness among Older People for health care and social professionals: launch of the piloting

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The Erasmus+ Alone project consortium is glad to announce the launch of the piloting of the training curriculum on existential loneliness among older people addressed to health care and social professionals. The aim of this innovative training is to raise awareness and give information on loneliness, and more specifically on existential loneliness, among elderly people and provide professionals with strategies to deal with it. The training course has been developed starting from the specific needs of social and health care professionals, reported in previous phases of the project, in dealing with elderly people experiencing existential loneliness. In order to respond effectively to these needs, the course combines theoretical knowledge with practical training, role-playing, case studies, examples, as well as group discussions and reflective sessions. On the specific, the training course…

29Gen 2021 by rita No Comments

Alone project: launch of the research results

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EXISTENTIAL LONELINESS: «IS ALSO A LACK OF RELATIONSHIPWITH OWN SELVES, AS A SORT OF DESERT» - THE VOICE OFHEALTH AND SOCIAL PROFESSIONALS ALONE project partnership is glad to announce that the report on the understanding, perceptions and experiences of existential loneliness in older people by health care and social professionals is now available. You can find it on the project website in different languages: English, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Rumanian and Swedish. The final aim of this empirical research, carried out in the five partner countries, is to reveal challenges and limitations encountered by healthcare and social professionals in dealing with existential loneliness amongolder persons. The research aimed also to highlight skills and educational and support needs to deal with this phenomenon in order to develop a high-quality work-based VET that…

23Mar 2020 by rita

SOLITUDE AMONG OLDER PERSONS: A GROWING ISSUE

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Loneliness among older people is a growing issue globally, even if the numbers are difficult to estimate as loneliness most commonly is measured as social loneliness only. Social loneliness embraces social aspects needs for human relationships and is often measured in the form of the number of contacts someone has, how extensive the social network is, cohabitation or not, etc. Loneliness is, however, a complex concept that also involves physical as existential dimensions. The physical dimension involves the need closeness and touch, while loneliness in its existential form runs much deeper than social and physical loneliness and is described as an unavoidable condition of humanity. This means that even if other people surround you, you can experience profound loneliness in its existential form. Existential loneliness is usually described in association with death, dying, and cancer when questions about the…

23Feb 2020 by rita

COMBACTING EXISTENTIAL LONELINESS AMONG OLDER PERSONS: A NEW EUROPEAN PROJECT JUST LAUNCHED

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Loneliness among older people is a growing issue globally, even if the numbers are difficult to estimate. This is indeed the goal of the ALONE project, funded by the European Union under the Erasmus+ KA2 programme. Loneliness is a complex concept that also involves existential dimensions which runs much deeper than social and physical loneli- ness and is described as an unavoidable condition of humanity. This means that even if other people surround you, you can experien- ce profound loneliness in its existential form. Existential loneliness is often experienced by older persons in association with death, dying or severe illnesses, when questions about the meaning of life come to the fore. That’s why it’s a meaningful and challenging issues for health and social care professio- nals which should be trained to…

15Gen 2020 by rita No Comments

Kick off meeting in Lodz (Poland)

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A new and very interesting project on existential loneliness affecting vulnerable groups and elderly people. The meeting was an opportunity for project partners to get to know each other, learn more about the respective national contexts and agree on the upcoming tasks foreseen by the work plan.