ERASMUS+
Key Action 1 - Learning Mobility Of Individuals
Extra-occupational further education – Assistant for elderly people – focus on dementia and garden therapy
Today people live about 30 years longer than 100 years ago. The total population is declining. Until 2030 each third citizen will be older than 60 years. That social development does not just have to be seen as a problem but as an interesting challenge, too. In the following years a lot of new interesting and miscellaneous fields of employment will arise referring to support and assistance of elderly people. They already exist to some extent.
The LEB Thüringen e.V. is successfully active in the field of extra-occupational further education of assistants of elderly people for 6 years.
We offer a three-day activity program to get into the topic of extra-occupational further education of assistants of elderly people.Daily programme
Gerontology is responsive to the special problems and requirements of age-specific deficiencies and diseases – restricted mobility, deficiencies of sensory organs, dementia, Parkinsonism and old-age depression.
The participants of the course will be informed about and sensibilized for:
- the activities with seniors in general
- the necessity of recognition and consideration of the special needs of the seniors they care for
- possibilities of supporting the seniors and how to include them into the everyday life
- social aspects like demographic change and the development of age images within the society – What is the local value of seniors in our society?
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The participants will be introduced to therapeutic approaches theoretically and practically.
Special attention will be turned on the gardening therapy.
Day 3 – focal point dementia
Dementia represents special demands on the assistants of elderly people. Therefore
- The different stages and the identifying features of dementia will be defined and explained to the participants.
- The participants will be sensibilisised for a positive attitude towards dementia patients.
- Integrative Validation represents an important element of the training.
More about our workshop
Where?
The workshop is going to be carried out in Weimar. This is a very beautiful city in the middle of Germany. The famous German poet, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, spent the most of his live time here.
You can reach Weimar via the Airports
- Leipzig (1 hour train distance)
- Berlin (2,5 hours train distance) and
- Frankfurt (3 hours train distance).
How to participate?
If you are interested in participating on one of our workshops you need a sending organisation and have to contact an organisation in your country that possibly applied for Key Action 1 Mobilities or intends to do so. But you can also contact us, and we will help you to find a sending organization in your country.
More about us
What is LEB Thüringen e.V. standing for?
RURAL ADULT EDUCATION
We are a non profit organisation.
We are acknowledged by the adult education law of Thuringia.
We were awarded with the European language signet 2005.
We cooperated with many partners in the European Programme of Lifelong Learning.
Our fields of work
As an umbrella-organisation for adult education associations and groups of Thuringia we
strengthen the adult education in Thuringia. We offer management, know-how and financial support up to 150 organizations and initiatives to organise seminars
We contribute to increase the quality of vocational education and training and provide seminars and workshops about innovative methods to strengthen the learn-to-learn-competence.
We are experienced in networking through working as a partner in several European partnerships and in European networks for the improvement of preschool education and for rural development and the support of low-skilled people.
We are experienced in the organisation and realisation of Grundtvig workshops.
Contact
Hinter dem Bahnhof 12
99427 Weimar
Germany
Beatrice Bojarra-Schachtzabel
Email: Beartice.Schachtzabel@leb.de
Website: www.th.leb.de
Location: Hinter dem Bahnhof 12, Weimar, Germany
Phone: (+49) 3643 749819