3D4ELDERLY – 3D printing to create innovative learning pathways for caregivers and staff members dealing with people with Alzheimer and elderly people with dementia

Project Number: 2020-1-LT01-KA204-077896

Timespan of the Project: 01-12-2020/ 30-09-2022

Project E-mail: info@ceipes.org

Financial Program: KA 2 Program – Cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices

Objectives

To prevent and awareness of Alzheimer and dementia and the early onset of the diseases.
To raise awareness and draw attention to Alzheimer’s disease and dementia at local, national and international level.
To increase the quality of the educational and caregiving process of staff working with people with Alzheimer and elderly people with dementia.
To provide proper tools to caregivers and staff members.
To create an activity tools for local and Europe-wide usage to assist in the improvement of memory in Alzheimer’s patients and those with early onset dementia.
To increase the quality of the adult inclusive education in the countries involved.
To increase the cooperation among European different entities working in field of disabilities, and technology development.
To establish cooperation and partnership at the European level.
To develop and to promote competencies related to the technology for staff and organizations working with people with Alzheimer and elderly with dementia.
To promote a European up-skills pathway, carried out in different countries for using 3D Printing technology in different kind of work.
To increase the quality of the education of people with those diseases for basic skills important for their life.
To increase the quality of the technological knowledge of the partners involved and their stakeholders.
To promote a lifelong upgrade of competences by staff and educators working as in the health as in the technological field.

Activities

To develop a guideline for caregivers to make them aware about the use of 3D Printing technology.
To develop a set of memory exercises developed with 3DP for people with Alzheimer and dementia to help them to recover the loss of memory.
To develop web platform to collect exercises created with 3DP to be used with people with Alzheimer and dementia.
To realise a training for experts, caregivers and other staff to test the exercises realised and give to them the skills in using 3D printing technology.
To develop a therapy guide to assist in the improvement of memory in Alzheimer’s patients and those with dementia.

Results

A guideline for caregivers about the use of 3D Printing.
A set of memory exercises created with 3DP for helping people with Alzheimer and elderly people with dementia.
A web platform to collect exercises created with 3DP to be used with people with Alzheimer and dementia.
A Training for experts, caregivers and other staff involved in the work with people with Alzheimer and elderly people with dementia.
Creation of a methodological guideline (therapy guide) to assist in the improvement of memory in Alzheimer’s patients and those with early onset dementia accessible to all Alzheimer centers.

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