empowerment of vulnerable people an integrated project

EMPOWERMENT OF VULNERABLE PEOPLE

An integrated project

CIPES PiemonteConfederazione Italiana per la Promozione della Salute e l’Educazione Sanitaria

In our society, not self

sufficient-old people and

migrant women are two

vulnerable groups for

the same reason namely

the loss of value due to

their present condition


The empowerment of

vulnerable groups

should be the task of a

society that aims at

equity and quality in

health for all his

Members


The piedmont branch of the Italian confederation for health promotion and education (CIPES) decided to tackle this problem in an integrated way


Very often old People need help for their everyday life


Very few families are in a condition to provide adeguate care to their elderly relatives at home. Old people homes are chosen by many families for giving adeguate care to their old relatives. However, most elderly people prefer remaining at home provided that an adeguated assistance is offered to them as they feel the eradication from their usual life enviroment and family and social links as a loss of value.


Moreover old people

homes are quite

expensive and often

local welfare trusts must

cover the fees, thus

putting a burden on the

society


An alternative efficient

solution would be

offering them adeguate care at home by means

of well trained women


Many migrant women from eastern Europe seek occupation in the field of old people care lacking formation for any type of work


The quality of care that they can give is rather poor, still many families offer them underpaid work that they are forced to accept as they are mostly irregular migrants that lack any legal tutelage


The welfare department

of Piedmont Region

devoted a fund for

providing adeguate

traning to migrant

women who take care

of elderly non self

sufficient people


Migrant women are

offered a free 200 hour

course of training in old

people care


Additional financial resources can be supplied by local welfare and health trusts


Qualified migrant

women who accept to

take care of an old not

self sufficient person at

home are offered legal

tutelage and adeguate

retribution


Families which employ irregular migrant women are offered a care service free of cost from the local welfare and health trust for the whole time during which their migrant persons are attending the training course provided that they will offer a regular work contract to them at the end of the course


Special agencies will put into contact families that need qualified care for their elderly non self sufficient relatives and Licensed migrant women


Families that employed irregular migrant women for taking care of their relatives will not be persecuted provided that they keep the migrant woman after qualification with a regular work contract pilot trial has been planned in five health districts, concerning 200 migrant women with a budget of 1 million Euro


It is forecast that at regimen

this project will enable most

old not self sufficient people

to remain at home in the

whole region and that the

cost for old people homes

will be reduced

empowerment of vulnerable people an integrated project

Documents

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education cipes

irregular migrant women

old people homes

adeguate care

adeguate retribution

self sufficientold people

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