Inclu-ageing – Training of family members and guardians for inclusion of ageing adults with disabilities

 The project aims to:

• Develop a toolkit on how to train parents and legal guardians of ageing adults with disabilities;
• Develop a parental education guidebook to encourage and support parents, family members and legal guardians of ageing adults with intellectual disabilities;
• Create educational spot videos for families;
• Design a comprehensive online resource with a categorized database;
• Prepare a policy recommendation report about the process of problem-solving related to provided services for ageing adults with disabilities.

The project will engage in the following activities:

• Development of non-formal education materials for family members and legal guardians for the achievement of secure ageing and empowerment of full and effective participation in social life;
• Through the development of the toolkit, of the parental education guidebook and of spot videos, provide tools related to:
  • Recognize the limitations;
  • Challenges and changes in cognitive and physical capacities, social support networks, physical health of ageing adults with intellectual disabilities;
  • Healthy lifestyle habits.
• Set up an online learning HUB for family members and guardians of ageing adults with disabilities that will include visual tips, practical solutions, ABC guides, frequently asked questions & answers, videos, good practices and news;
• Pilot tryout of the online learning HUB;
• Development of the policy recommendation report.

The project will yield the following results:

• Toolkit on how to train parents and legal guardians of ageing adults with disabilities;
• Parental education guidebook;
• Educational spot videos for families;
• Online learning HUB for family members of ageing adults with disabilities;
• Policy recommendation report.