Project acronym: CrossCare (894.418,99 EUR ERDF)
Lead Partner: Zavod za oskrbo na domu Ljubljana
Project Partners: Mestna občina Ljubljana, Center za pomoč na domu Maribor, Dom Zdravlja Čakovec, Ustanova za zdravstvenu njegu u kući Zagreb, Grad Zagreb
The common challenge of the program area is the trend of aging population. The needs to formally organize the area of the domiciliary care for the elderly are increasing partly because of the aging population and partly because of modified socially-cultural norms. The general goal of the project is to develop and establish a new cross-border cooperation structure to ensure an integrated approach to domiciliary care that includes services of medical and social care. This cross-border structure, complete with content, works based on the same methodology and is a novelty in both countries. Even though individual segments of the domiciliary care services are being performed in both countries, the field is normatively and systemically unorderly. A formalized concept of integrated approach where the content is detailedly defined from both the social and medical aspect does not exist either. The project in highly innovative as its results will serve as the technical basis for the field being normatively organized. This is already planned to be done in the field of prolonged domiciliary care in Slovenia. The execution of quality preventive and rehabilitative therapy surpasses the current institutional curative approach and increases the quality of life of the elderly living at home. With the project, the execution of the integrated approach of domiciliary care is moved of the urban centers of Ljubljana, Podravska region, Zagreb and the Međimurje County. The project will be based on partnership and cooperation between institutions. It will be established on a foundation of permanent transfer of knowledge, practices, approaches and methods of work of all project partners. The newly established cross-border structure of cooperation will encompass 8 institutions, under which the competences and skills of at least 153 employees will rise. This way the quality and quantity of the performed services with a special emphasis on providing a complete service, which include both medical and social care, will rise.
