Competence Development for Care Profesionals in Lifelong Learning Europe

1. CompetenceDevelopment for Care Profesionals in LifelongLearningEurope Experiences from Aarhus Social and Health Care College

2. Background • Educational guidance • Project coordination in Equal and Leonardo • Mobility activities • Partner activities in European projects

3. European projects • CICS – Core Skills in the care Sector • EPICS – European Placements in the Care Sector • SAGE - Senior citizens participate in creating their future lives • IGUANA – Interactive GUiding, A New Approach

4. The SAGE Project - Senior citizens participate in creating their future lives

5. Results from the SAGE project • Active citizenship for +50 • Moderators / facilitators • Development of short term courses in Gerontology, Communication, project management, participation methods • Pilot testing of course material and handbook www.eu-sage.com

6. CICS project • Comparing existing training programmes • Identification of core skills • Improve recognition of European training programmes in the care sector • Improve mobility in the care sector www.leonardo-cics.de

7. CICS project, development areas • Improvement of image of the care sectorand winning new care staff through increasedattractiveness of the profession • Support for the new EU member states to bring their structures in care closer tothe existing European standards • Increase of mobility and the exchangeof experiences of the trainees, employeesand teachers involved in the care profession • Access to the European Labor Marketfor care professionals and increase of theintercultural competency of the traineesby developing a European training networkwhich will be open to further European partners.

8. EPICS project • Exchange of students and staff • Testing of project pilots • Development of personal competencies • Intercultural competencies • Language skills

9. Challenges for the Care Sector in Europe • Growing population of elderly in all member states • Improvement of the status of the Care Sector • Recruitment of staff • Increase mobility and the exchange of experience in Europe

10. Future elderly • “Wecan – and will - take care of ourselves” • Selective • Individualistic orientated • Experiments with new ways of housing • Continue exploring the World • Make own decisions • Speak up for themselves • Consumers • Healthier in high age

11. Future demands on social- and health care professionals • Ability to obtain new knowledge independently • Obtain new knowledge through the Internet • Must be fast learners • Adaptable to changes • Ability to manage chaos in a fast changing world

12. Future demands on social- and health care professionals • Self confidence and awareness of own abilities • Ability to make decisions • Create meaningful relations to others • Know when they need to ask for help, i.e. knowing your limits of competence • Balance between cooperation and individuality

13. Developing Care Educations • Recruitment of new staff • Improve status of the sector • “Step by step” system • Meet future qualification requirements • General and personal competencies • Possibilities for engaging in future education

14. Consider • Economy • Education • Quality in the Care Sector • Social policy • Social/health and immigration policy

15. Lars Kolind • Learning competence • Competence to handle changes • Competence to create relations • Competence to create meaningfulness

16. Levels of Care Giving • Elementary care – social and health care helpers • Fundamental or basic care – social and health care assistants • Specialists care and treatment – nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists

17. Main aims of an educational programme… • Professional competencies • General competencies • Personal competencies * social competencies * learning and development competencies

18. If these are the old people of the future - what is the challenge? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqfFrCUrEbY