"Srebrna Sieć" (ang. "Silver Net") project
About this good practice
A major problem has been diagnosed in the Słupsk and Bytow districts with regard to the availability of care services for seniors living in the area.
Project objective: 97 sustainable social service sites will be created (88 remote care services: telecare, neighbourhood services, home rehabilitation, 9 Care Service Delivery Points.
The project tasks:
-Silver Network creation of an integrated local system of care services (creation of 8 Care Service Provision Points providing care services, promoting remote services, purchase of 250 telecare kits,remote device, SOS button and subscription for 30 months, setting up a telephone service -suport for participating seniors, provision of care services including, inter alia remote services for 250 seniors)
-Professionalisation of carers' services through increased competence, knowledge and practical skills
-Animation and prevention for senior citizens (health prevention-counselling and training workshops for seniors)-128 trainings
-Activating the local environment (Animation Points)
Beneficiaries:
- 563 persons aged 60+, residing in 8 communes of the Slupsk district
-140 actual carers of persons aged 60+ residing in the project area
Stakeholders:
-employees of Social Assistance Centres from the 8 communes and Slupsk County.
-employees of 8 communes and Slupsk County Office
-The Let's Help Foundation
-The Spectrum Research company Agnieszka Małecka-Jagła
-local NGOs working in the field of care services
-rehabilitants
-volunteers
Resources needed
Financial resources
2 909 872,15 PLN of which:
EU funds: 2 764 378,54 PLN
Contribution: 145 493,61 PLN
Human resources:
Management team:employees of Social Care Centres/Local Autorithies
Subsantive workers: local animators of senior and care services, seniors’ assistant, phisiotherapists,trainers
Evidence of success
The project created 194 sustainable social service sites that provided support to seniors in the form of care services: remote services - telecare, neighbourhood services and home rehabilitation. Care Service Points were established in 8 municipalities. Contact with the care centre increased the elderly's sense of security at home. Home rehabilitation enabled incapacitated seniors to improve their motor skills. Neighbourhood services were provided by carers from seniors' immediate environment.
Potential for learning or transfer
The Silver Network project was completed successfully. Following its completion, many more seniors and their de facto carers from the Silver Network participating municipalities expressed interest in participating in a similar project. In response to these needs, a decision was made to continue the project. As part of the agreement between 8 communes: Ustka, Kępice, Główczyce, Kobylnica, Potęgowo, Dębnica Kaszubska, Słupsk and 2 social economy entities, the second edition (the Srebrna Sieć II project) was launched.
The project was addressed to 340 elderly people - dependent, lonely, at risk of poverty or social exclusion over 60 years of age, and 40 actual carers of seniors. Its timescale: 01.12.2020 – 31.10.2023.
The implementation of the Silver Network II project went very smoothly. The project was based on the implementation of proven solutions developed in the earlier edition of the project.
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