Description
The main aim of the project is to introduce complex and interdisciplinary actions to make high quality therapeutic services accessible to chronically ill and disabled people. The project will affect the central and north-east part of the Pomeranian Voivodeship and make high quality specialist medical, diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitation, counselling services accessible to most of the inhabitants of the region, who do not have an access to such the services at the moment. The most important modernisation part of the project is the extension, rebuilding and refurbishment of one of the floors of the Polish Association for Persons with Intellectual Disability at Gdansk Branch Health Centre in order to prepare the therapeutic, consulting and rehabilitation rooms to correspond better to European standards.The planned modernisation and refurbishment has been designed to fulfill the needs of dependent and disabled persons and to improve the standard of the services. The project gained in a reallocation procedurę additional fund for new tasks related to support for dependant and disabled persons.
Summary of project results
The main aim of the Project was to increase the health services availability and to improve their quality in order to avoid or decrease the social costs resulting from the inadequate medical and therapeutic treatment. The target group were the people over 25 years old with severe and complex disability, the patients that suffered from a severe communication disorder caused by disfunctions resulting from mental or physical disability who needed highly specialist therapy forms to sustain or improve their general fitness, social skills and communication predispositions and their families. They were offered a set of various forms of professional suport in 14 areas and voluntary service which was organized at homes of the participants. A very valuble part of the Project was the pilotage Augmentative and Alternative Communication diagnostic program for the disabled that can not communicate with others with the use of the traditional appliances used in different AAC systems. The achieved golas: over 300 patients and their families have benefited from the improvement of the quality of the health service; 1 infrastructure project has been carried out, a very modern and high quality Centre for the children and youth - institution; over 200 rehabilitation programmes for the chronically -ill and dependant; 2 new forms of the support for the disabled ( equipment rental, counselling); 14 new forms of the support for the chronically -ill and dependant persons; 119 pieces of diagnostic and therapeutic equipment have been purchased; 158 members of the patient nursing staff have been trained; over 120 services in the medical equipment rental service have been carried out and over 29600 additional physiotherapeutic and counselling visits have taken place in the patient's home including voluntary services. Every single aim has been realized with full success and now we are continuating the results of the Project in the Centre for the children and youth – institution.
Summary of bilateral results