3D4ELDERLY – 3D printing to create innovative learning pathways for caregivers and staff members dealing with people with Alzheimer and elderly people with dementia
Project details
Project number:
2020-1-LT01-KA204-077896
Timespan of the project:
01-12-2020/ 30-09-2022
Program details
Financing program:
KA 2 Program – Cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices
Contact details
CEIPES: International Centre for the Promotion of Education and Development
Contact Person:
Fulvio Grassadonio
Alessia Di Francesca
E-mail:
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.