The Project

CareV.E.T.: Innovative training approach for Supportive Living Operators (2016-1-EL01-KA202-023612)

CareV.E.T. project’s main objective is to extend the offer of high quality learning opportunities, delivering an up-to-date pioneer curriculum in the field of Supported/Assisted Living. The curriculum will address the latest’s technological advancements in the assisted living domain, as well as role playing, social networks building around people with disabilities, and self-advocacy skills that can be utilized by the supportive living operators(SLOs) to improve the beneficiaries’ wellbeing.

A toolkit will be developed, demonstrating state of the art solutions in Assisted Living (motion detection, location identification, heart rate measurements, step counting, sleep behavior, etc), that the SLOs will be able to try with beneficiaries during practical training and work based learning.

CareV.E.T. is intended to be an attractive curriculum that will combine social care, ICT and wellness competencies.

Source: FRANFURT UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES

The CareV.E.T. Curriculum will include the following, non-addressed before in supportive living domain, learning outcomes:

Therapeutic role playing techniques that has been found to be very helpful for sensory experience and social interaction,
self advocacy techniques for reducing the isolation of people with disabilities and to give them the tools and experience to take greater control over their own lives.
Social networks developing skills around the beneficiaries with aim the support of their relatives and friends.
monitoring programs and tools intended to improve the physical and mental health of the beneficiaries, using preventive means that provide measurable results,
ambient-assisted living tools, assistive devices, aids and equipment for independent living including terminology and interoperability issues, and ways to create personalized rules and prevent personal/resident hazardous situations.

Even though technology offers great potential, it is partially exploited by today’s supportive living operators due to the lack of sufficient training and suitable training courses. Since the demand for supportive living operators is expected to grow in the near future, CareV.E.T. will try to create an attractive curriculum that will combine ICT and wellness competencies. CareVET certified professionals will be easily absorbed by Social partners that host people with "special skills" and elder, as well as from private companies that offer products in the field of assisted/supported living, as consultants.

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