EDE & EAHSA newsletter (giugno - agosto 2017)

Dear colleagues,
It the past days E.D.E. has submitted a project proposal at the European 3rd Health Programme. The project target is to create a recommended EUROPEAN CARE STANDARD for people living with dementia in residential long-term care facilities. Such standard is currently not available and most needed given the demographic trends of the European ageing population. The guidelines should provide the elderly long-term care providers with necessary knowledge and procedures to assure the adequate quality of life of the target group.
The cooperation of the project partners provides and their large member networks

represent a unique opportunity to define such standard based on the grass-roots, first- hand, everyday practice of care provides across the majority of the European countriesunder the supervision of the best expert from Alzheimer Europe. The standard will therefore be suitable and applicable for all the European countries. The creation of the
standard will require intensive communications with subjects providing care. This is also an opportunity to collect and disseminate examples of good practice across the partner
networks and also to analyze the cost of care incurred on persons living with dementia.

The result of the project proposal thus if we were successful or not will be known at the
end of September. We will keep you informed.

Jiri Horecky – president of the E.D.E.