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WORK GROUP 4

Education

WG4 is aimed at providing an educational toolkit to be integrated into the curriculum if formal caregivers of people with dementia and provide support for informal caregivers when facing ethical issues.

The objective of this WG is to develop an educational toolkit that enables formal and informal caregivers to incorporate ethical perspectives and concepts in their care of people with dementia.

 

The expected outcome is an educational toolkit aiming at formal and informal caregivers of people with dementia.

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Work group description WG4

Tasks

T4.1: Develop an EDEM educational toolkit that can be integrated into the curriculum of formal
caregivers of people with dementia and provide support for informal caregivers when face with ethical issues.

The toolkit will be uploaded to and made accessible on the EDEM website.

Activities

Members of the WG will meet annually for the first two years and subsequently bi-annually for the remainder of the duration of the WG.

  • Representatives of the WG will be present at two WG2 workshops with formal and informal caregivers, gathering information about educational and support needs.

Milestones

M4.1: Annual/bi-annual WG meetings (Y1Q2, Y2Q2, Y3Q2, Y3Q4, Y4Q2, Y4Q4)
M4.2: Two attendances at WG2 workshops with formal caregivers to people with dementia in countries participating in the network (this will be done within the established WG2 stakeholder contacts) (Y1Q3, Y2Q1)
M4.3: Annual and final reporting of WG progress (Y1Q4, Y2Q4, Y3Q4, Y4Q4)

Deliverables

D4.1: EDEM educational toolkit that can be integrated into the curriculum of formal caregivers of people with dementia and provide support for informal caregivers.

Team leader WG4

Isabel Machado Alexandre

Assistant Professor
Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE)
Lisbon, Portugal
Tel.: +351 217 903 974
Mail: [email protected]