TENDER4LIFE project will enable care providers to implement a set of tools to enhance professional qualification of low-level elderly care workers, as well as to increase their competencies that can directly influence their self-esteem, leading to higher levels of motivation.
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Adequate qualification and training lead to better preparation for elderly care workers to deal with contemporary situations. The model to be developed aims to be a mixed training approach between a person-centered approach with high-quality and technical skills (interpersonal, digital). It will innovate in terms of providing new curricula, work-based learning, and practical exercises, instead of the old-fashioned way of theoretical modules, which have been often led to skills and expectations mismatching and thus, job quitting and labor market instability.

Person-centred care is a way of thinking and doing things that sees the people using health and social services as equal partners in planning, developing and monitoring care to make sure it meets their needs.​

​Recent research of WHO indicates that person-centred approaches are associated with better clinical outcomes and improved cost-effectiveness and thus, supporting the pressure that EU is facing in welfare systems for social and health care.

​The person-centred care, for instance, sustains the relevance of the role of a carer of an elderly customer in his health and wellbeing.

The use of a humanistic approach in delivering services to elderly people is seen as a strategic solution to address the challenges in an ageing population.
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This kind of humanistic approaches sees customers as “unique individuals”, taking in consideration their perspective and will in the decision-making process, by respect, courtesy, availability, communication, etc. These approaches provide an increase in job satisfaction and improvements in efficiency of services.

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