Nursing Care School

A program for training relatives and social workers in carrying out rehabilitation activities to care for elderly citizens and people with disabilities with health and motor impairments.

Описание of target group and problem being solved:  

• Social workers

• Relatives and neighbors of elderly citizens and disabled people who have completely and partially lost the ability to self-servicing and to move due to age or illness

• Recipients of social services, elderly citizens and people with disabilities in need of rehabilitation measures.

  
  

The training program includes:

For relatives

• seminars and counseling on rehabilitation issues.

• insight into methods of monitoring the health of disabled and elderly citizens, the principles of general care and the rules for the prevention of complications, the skills of medical care, personal hygiene, using technical means of rehabilitation, etc.

• practical exercises

For social workers

• informing and consulting about social and psychological problems, types and forms of social assistance, etc.

• insight into the methods of monitoring the health of disabled and elderly citizens, the principles of general care and the rules for the prevention of complications, the skills of medical care, personal hygiene, using technical means of rehabilitation, etc.

• practical exercises

For recipients of social services

• training in practical skills and methods of self-help, the use of technical rehabilitation aids and assistive devices

Objectives of the «Nursing Care School» program:

1. Restoring the optimal possible standard of living and social adaptation of a disabled person or an elderly person in their usual home environment, surrounded by a family.

2. Increasing the effectiveness of social rehabilitation measures.

3. Creating a favorable environment and psychological atmosphere in the family.

4. Reducing the need for the services of medical and prophylactic institutions and social service institutions.

Implementation mechanism:

• The training program at the School is formed in such a way that any caregiver can receive information about the features of caring for their loved ones, taking into account a specific disease, in a convenient form and adapt the room where the person lives according to his/her needs.

• Specialists of the Nursing Care School:

  • identify elderly citizens and people with disabilities, their relatives who need the services of the School.

  • provide practical training for relatives, neighbors, close friends, social workers in the methods of care and adaptation of the premises, if necessary with the involvement of medical professionals.

• A specialist responsible for organizing the School:

  • recognizes a citizen as one in need of the School’s services on the basis of approved forms for assessing functional health indicators.

  • draws up an individual work plan for the rehabilitation of the School participant.

  • analyzes the effectiveness of the individual work plan and, if necessary, corrects it.

• Director of the Center:

  • analyzes the results of the School’s activities on the basis of reports and information on the results of internal audit and takes all necessary measures to improve its performance.