Peer Support Workers as an Innovative force in Advocacy in dementia care
▶Summary
Services need to be developed where the elderly and their family can contribute on their own premises and on the basis of what they believe is important and meaningful to them. This will have to ...
▶Objectives
− The aim of the project is to help create sustainable and competency-enhancing services for people with dementia by finding new ways to involve users and their next of kin in service development. − The project is also going to help reduce the shame, stigma, and taboo associated with dementia, so that people affected are seeking help at an early stage. − Testing of Peer Support Workers in dementia care, primary for next of kin, but also for people in an early stage of dementia − Establish collaboration with involved parties in the project across countries − Find out what the status is of the services for people with dementia in selected municipalities. Clarify the role and function of experienced staff in dementia − Develop guidelines for PSW in dementia care − Disseminate information about the project to involved parties and other interested parties − Raising awareness about the status of elderly people/dementia as well as about the peer support workers and family caregivers in all participant countries.