BetterCare - Supporting emerging care economy, empowering caregivers to provide safe care at home

Project Duration: 26.10.2023 to 25.10.2027

The Care Economy is a groundbreaking field due to population aging and the increase of non-communicable diseases. Ensuring the provision of safety care at home and helping people to stay in their places as much as possible are current challenges. Caregiving at home has increased in the complexity of care and intensity which augmented the risk of making errors impacting on both, recipients’ health, and caregivers’ wellbeing. In most cases, home care is provided by family members, usually women, which enlarges the gender gap.

Eine Seniorin mit Rollator betritt ein Haus. Daneben eine Pflegekraft, die sie stützt.

Research Areas

Life Sciences, Health, and Quality of Life
Social Justice, Inclusive and Secure Societies, Governance and Economics

Research Center

Center for Applied Nursing Research

This Action joints efforts to ensure an error-free care environment at the homes. It introduces an open dialogue and discussion among all stakeholders about the consequences of caregivers’ errors based on a cross-national collaboration that integrates citizens, end users, different disciplines, and perspectives. It will be built on existing work and will provide opportunities to re-think national, and international deinstitutionalize policies, assuring the same care safety at home as the one received in residential facilities. To assess available resources to meet the qualification threshold and modify the support net available for the management of risk of caregiving and dispensing medications at home.

Citizens Science principles will be adopted to open debates and analyses about educational standards, develop of a guideline and case study based on caregivers’ stories, and other materials. Also, to organize and conduct a Training School and Short-Term-Scientific-Mission involving caregivers as ended users and professionals. Health, psychological, social, legal, ethical, and economic issues will be considered and the usability of disruptive technologies as well.

 

Research Goals

  • Development of a theoretical conceptualization of home care errors and the establishment of a shared understanding of their consequences
  • Consideration of the situation of women who take on the care of family members and, in doing so, give up their personal and professional careers
  • Presentation of the training content and standards for caregivers designed to enable them to provide safe home care
 

Funding Partners


UN Sustainable Development Goals


Project Lead