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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
| Eurodiaconia members gather in Vienna to discuss challenges for older people |
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30 April 2012
Eurodiaconia’s Healthy Ageing and Elderly Care network met in Vienna on the 23rd and 24th of April to discuss challenges in care for and to the social inclusion of older people, hosted by Diakonie Austria. In the context of ensuring quality of life and dignity of older people, members presented their campaigns in the field of tackling discrimination and isolation of older people, reforming long term care and ensuring an integrated service approach. A discussion on what the challenges for older people's dignity was followed, and the role of diaconal organisations in tackling these challenges was explored. The following day discussions moved towards identifying actions that national governments and the EU could take. These recommendations will feed into the EU’s forthcoming working paper on long term care, the consultation on personal services and the principles for active ageing.
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The group visited a diaconal residential home for people mainly with dementia and discussed the feature of its intergenerational project of school children participating in activities in the home as well as how they sought to create a homely environment. Following a brainstorming of barriers to creating projects between generations participants shared examples of how such challenges have been or could be overcome.