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The participants will be two schools - SZŠ a VOŠ zdravotnická, Liberec, Czech Republic and Johan Bojer upper secondary school, Leksvik, Norway. Our cooperating partners will be Residential Care Home for Elderly and CTMLYNG AS company from Vanvikan, Norway. The aim of this project is to shadow colleagues and partners, to focus on care for the elderly and to visit work placements and facilities and a company dealing with assistive technologies for the elderly. Local students will also take part in this project by setting a questionnaire and presenting responses. Our goal is to try to find some positive and safe approach towards the elderly for the following decades via this project cooperation.
Summary of project results
We were aware of the fact that the grow of the elderly within the population is getting faster, and the society is getting into an age boom. We felt that it is also up to school systems to educate students to view this fast growth of the older generation as a challenge. That is why we were trying to find some positive and safe approaches towards the elderly via cooperation between our nursing school and Johan Bojer school from Leksvik, Norway and our partners (Care Home Františkov, Liberec and CTMLyng company, Vanvikan, Norway). Our cooperation included excursion, visits and workshops dealing with the main issue – how to make the life of the elderly positive, more comfortable and safer. We aimed at the quality of communication with the elderly and at the equipment in the environment where they live. We were looking into using reminiscence technique by means of a Biography Book. We visited several care homes and health care facilities and during workshops we created a teaching unit based on ECVET principles called Collection of anamnesis data from the senior''s life (Senior''s Book) to support the creation of a safe environment for the senior. During our excursions to CTMLyng (a company producing smart technology) in Vanvikan and to Technical University in Liberec we got deeper insight into possibilities of usage different smart equipment in homes of the elderly (e.g., fire, gas, light controls, medicine dosers, movement imaging, vital signs checks etc.). Thanks to this project, we have deepened our cooperation with Care Home Františkov and we will start working with the secondary industrial school on development/production of assistive smart technology aids for the elderly based on needs of our clients.
Summary of bilateral results
To have a donor project partner was for us the only way to get some experience from another country, to observe, to learn and to share. It was useful to see how nursing lessons are taught, how students participate in training. We could see that it is very similar to our Czech education. Concerning smart technologies and their usage we noticed quite a big difference. Although the safety of clients is one of the most important issues in our facilities, we had the opportunity to see that this issue could be handled differently. In our country we lack the nursing staff and financial support for smart equipment which is used in the donor project partner to keep clients in a safer and more comfortable environment. The partner encouraged us as a nursing school to cooperate with our local secondary industrial /engineering school to deal with smart technology based on clients’ needs. We do hope that our partner had benefit from our Biography Book. The other positive effect of the project is that we all understood perfectly well and are still in touch – we had not only busy working days but also lots of laugh during evening activities, we became friends. We have some plans for future cooperation but first we have to settle down our gained experience