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

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

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

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…
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Alone project: launch of the research results

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…
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