{"id":3619,"date":"2022-06-29T18:11:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T18:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/?p=3619"},"modified":"2023-10-04T04:49:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T04:49:09","slug":"digitalis-empowering-informal-carers-in-their-daily-usage-of-digital-healthcare-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/digitalis-empowering-informal-carers-in-their-daily-usage-of-digital-healthcare-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Digitalis: Empowering informal carers in their daily usage of digital healthcare services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Project information<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Acronym<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalis.prompt.hu\/en\">DIGITALIS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Project title<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Empowering informal carers in their daily usage of digital<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">healthcare services<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Project number<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: 2021-1-IT02-KA220-ADU-000033535<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Action Type<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: KA220-ADU &#8211; Cooperation partnerships in adult education<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Field<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Adult Education<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Duration<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: 36 months<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Start date<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: 01\/02\/2022\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>End date<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: 31\/01\/2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Partner countries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Italy, Greece and Hungary<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Project coordinator<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fondazione Democenter \u2013 SIPE, Italy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Project background\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>The DIGITALIS project will focus on female informal caregivers (FICs) with special focus on those\u00a0 providing long-term homecare and who need to re-enter the labour market after a long period of\u00a0 inactivity<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It is estimated that 80 % of care work is provided by informal carers in Europe. There are thousands of Europeans, mostly women caring for a family member with support needs and specially the older adults. Many of those women are out of the labour market and face challenges in accessing adequate resources, support services and social benefits. Leaving these informal carers without support exposes them to poverty, health problems and undermines gender equality. This situation is accentuated by an acceleration of the digital transformation in the healthcare sector which requires the ability to manipulate and use e-health services and related technologies, on a daily basis, to provide the older adults with an adapted level of care. Informal carers need to access adequate and adapted training and skills development notably related to digital competences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>DIGITALIS<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> project will tackle two major needs of the target group:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Needs in terms of training opportunity: from a major data collection conducted in 2017 by COFACE Families Europe, it appears that almost 2\/3 of the respondents were never offered the opportunity to take part in any training, or skill development.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Need to enhance professional experience and diversify opportunities for employability after a long period of time out of the labour market: by providing long-term care, FICs have acquired informal learning in different\u00a0 fields related to care support and most of the time they are not aware of it<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Aims\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The aim of the <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalis.prompt.hu\/en\">DIGITALIS<\/a> project is to empower female informal carers with the essential digital skills and knowledge to fully exploit the potential of digital healthcare services and technologies to improve their own professional situation as well as the quality of life and safety of their relatives they care for.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Specific objectives\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The specific objectives of the project are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Improve the digital skills and competences of female informal carers for employability through an adapted and tailored-made training programme in Greece and Hungary;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Define and validate a complete national digital healthcare services and technologies landscape and the related digital skills roadmap according to the female informal caregivers\u2019 needs in Greece and Hungary;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Develop, test and assess innovative e-learning courses and modules based on social innovation and human-centered approaches to better respond to female informal carers learning needs;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Structure the main results, lessons learnt, informal carers testimonies and policy recommendations into a practical guide to enable dissemination and replicability at the European level.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Planned results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The key deliverable of the DIGITALIS project is an innovative blended learning approach proposing a modular digital skills training programme with tailored-made content, specifically designed by and for the female informal caregivers according to their national healthcare environment and context. To reach this goal, the project results planned are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">R1 Designing a common digital healthcare services and skills methodology to assess the informal caregivers\u2019 digital needs.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Within the PR1, a clear picture on the special skills the informal carers need for utilizing the potential of digital tools in their daily work will be done.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">R2 Developing a set of digital training content modules and sessions. This Project Result will develop a set of digital training modules and sessions for informal caregivers which will help them to utilize new technologies in their daily work.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">R3 Developing the e-learning platform to support the test and assessment of digital training content modules and sessions. This platform will provide also the opportunity to gain digital skills by working, to collaborate in digital environment by communicating, to discuss the sharing knowledge in a community of other participants.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">R4 Building a replication guide to scale-up the Project Results at the European level. This replication guide will be a major result from the project and its main goal is to capitalise on the activities performed in the previous Project Results, identifying replicability potential and support future upscaled implementation of the DIGITALIS approach at the European level. At the beginning, the guide will be produced in EN, GR, HU and also in Italian.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Impact<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The impact expected will be positive and dynamic and it regards mainly the informal carers group. In particular, their digital skills will be much more developed compared to the beginning of the project, and they will become more recipient for the newest solutions developed in their area. They also will gain time by using the proper tools and applications thus they will be able to better support their relatives or have more effective time management. Informal carers will also obtain a different approach of the work of carers as they will have a closer look on their difficulties and challenges to keep up with the growing number of up-to-date applications and tools designed for home healthcare. So, the project will bring a range of innovations to designing and developing courses, notably through the implementation of the social innovation approach related to the co-creation process. The method used in DIGITALIS will promote digital skills and adaptation to technologies in all the population and can be transferred to any other sector not only for adult education and training providers but for citizens who want to see their skill gaps \u201cto achieve goals related to work, employability, learning, leisure and participation in the digital society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Partner organizations<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democentersipe.it\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fondazione Democenter \u2013 SIPE, Italy<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doxee.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doxee SpA, Italy<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prompt.hu\/en\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PROMPT-H Sz\u00e1m\u00edt\u00e1stechnikai Oktat\u00e1si, Kereskedelmi \u00e9s Szolg\u00e1ltat\u00f3 Kft, Hungary<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prolepsis.gr\/en\/home\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PROLEPSIS, Greece<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/our-team\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greek Carers Network EPIONI, Greece<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project information Acronym: DIGITALIS Project title: Empowering informal carers in their daily usage of digital healthcare services Project number: 2021-1-IT02-KA220-ADU-000033535 Action Type: KA220-ADU &#8211; Cooperation partnerships in adult education Field: Adult Education Duration: 36 months Start date: 01\/02\/2022\u00a0\u00a0 End date: 31\/01\/2025 Partner countries: Italy, Greece and Hungary Project coordinator: Fondazione Democenter \u2013 SIPE, Italy Project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4928,"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions\/4928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}