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…
