The main scope of CARESS Project is to overcome a skill gap in the field of elderly homecare. Better care and sustainability of health services calls for innovative ways to address the needs of the elderly.
ECVET
European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training is designed to facilitate the transfer, accumulation and recognition of people's learning outcomes, from one VET system to another, or from an informal learning situation to a formal learning context.It requires and promotes transparency of qualifications and learning outcomes, procedures (quality assurance, assessment or recognition), learning processes and pathways, structures.ECVET is based on the division of qualifications into units and on the description of learning outcomes of each unit using the three descriptors of EQF; knowledge, skills, and competences, making clear the EQF level of reference. [http://lifelonglearning-observatory.eucen.eu/whatECVET]
EQF
The European Qualifications Framework is a translation tool that helps communication and comparison between qualifications systems in Europe. Its eight common European reference levels are described in terms of learning outcomes: knowledge, skills and competences. This allows any national qualifications systems, national qualifications frameworks (NQFs) and qualifications in Europe to relate to the EQF levels. Learners, graduates, providers and employers can use these levels to understand and compare qualifications awarded in different countries and by different education and training systems.
[https://ec.europa.eu/ploteus/search/site?f%5B0%5D=im_field_entity_type%3A97]
ESCO CLASSIFICATION
European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO) is the multilingual classification of European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations. ESCO is part of the Europe 2020 strategy. The ESCO classification identifies and categorizes skills, competences, qualifications and occupations relevant for the EU labour market and education and training. It systematically shows the relationships between the different concepts. ESCO has been developed in an open IT format, is available for use free of charge by everyone and can be accessed via the ESCO portal. [https://ec.europa.eu/esco/portal/escopedia/European_Skills%252C_Competences%252C_Qualifications_and_Occupations_%2528ESCO%2529]
HOMECARE
Homecare describes any form of care given within the home; the term homecare covers both medical and non-medical forms of care, such as home helthcare, home aid and home help.
HOME AID
A service provided by a professional who, under the supervision of a home health or social service agency, assists an older, ill or disabled person with household chores, bathing, personal care and other daily living needs. Or an item, such as a walking frame or a shower chair, which helps people to manage the activities of daily living.
HOME HEALTH CARE
Home health care is health care that occurs within one’s home. The term home health care and homecare are often interchanged; however, home health care refers to medical-related homecare while homecare encompasses all medical and non-medical homecare services. A home health care company provides services that include caregiver services, home health nursing, home therapists, home health aides, and more [https://www.maximhomecare.com/glossary/ ]
ISCO CLASSIFICATION
The International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO) is a four-level statistical classification of occupation groups managed by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Its structure follows a grouping by education level. The two latest versions of ISCO are ISCO-88 (dating from 1988) and ISCO-08 (dating from 2008). In ESCO, ISCO-08 serves as the hierarchical structure for the occupations pillar. ISCO-08 provides the top four levels for the occupations pillar. ESCO provides the lowest and fifth level of the hierarchical structure with its list of occupations. A semantic structure is established by mapping the ESCO occupations to ISCO unit groups (level 4). Since ISCO is a statistical classification, its occupation groups do not overlap. Each ESCO occupation is therefore mapped to only one ISCO unit group. It follows from this structure, that ESCO occupation concepts can be equal to or narrower than ISCO unit groups, but not broader. The result is a strictly mono-hierarchical structure where each element from level 2 to 5 has exactly one parent.
[https://ec.europa.eu/esco/portal/escopedia/International_Standard_Classification_of_Occupations_%2528ISCO%2529]
OLDER ADULT
A group of people that is 65 years of age or older. One older adult is that individual who is in the last stage of life, which follows after adulthood and that precedes the death of the person. It is precisely during this phase that the body and the cognitive faculties of the people will deteriorate. A person who has reached a certain age that varies among countries, but is often associated with the age of normal retirement http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/68896/1/WHO_WKC_Tech.Ser._04.2.pdf.
QUALIFICATION
Formal outcome of an assessment and validation process which is obtained when a competent institution determines that an individual has achieved learning outcomes to a given standard. [Sirje ECVET Questions and Answers 2011]
SOCIAL CARE
Assistance with the activities of daily life (personal care, domestic maintenance, self-direction) delivered by a personal care helper, home helper or social worker and aimed at supporting older people who experience disabilities in functioning. It covers a wide range of services provided by local authorities and the independent sector to adults either in their own homes or in a care home. It also covers day centres, which help people with daily living. Services like help with washing, dressing, feeding or assistance in going to the toilet are also included, as are meals-on-wheels and home help for people with disabilities.
COMPENSATIVE LEARNING MODULES
Compensative Learning Modules (CLMs) are learning modules, composed by specific learning units (defined in term of knowledge, skills and transversal competences – according to ECVET), which target a specific “competence gap” that affects a certain Home Healthcare Practitioner (HHCP).
NURSE - HHCP1
Responsible for general care. An individual with advanced training in caring for the sick, aged or injured. A nurse may be defined as a professional qualified by education and authorized by law to practice nursing. There are many different types, specialties and grades of nurses. Those who specialize in care of older adults are often called geriatric or gerontological nurses.
SOCIAL AND HEALTH HOME CARE PROFESSIONALS - HHCP2
Professional who could provide BOTH health care AND home aid; health care can be provided both under supervision (of a nurse, a doctor, etc.) or without it; in some countries this professional provides also home aid. They provide care for the purpose of promoting, maintaining or restoring health. Social care is intended as providing help and support - both personally and practically - which can enable people to lead as independent a life as possible.
PHYSIOTHERAPIST - HHCP3
A professional who has successfully completed a professional entry level programme that enables them to identify and maximise quality of life and functional movement potential, within the spheres of promotion, prevention, maintenance, intervention/treatment, habilitation and rehabilitation. This encompasses physical, psychological, emotional and social wellbeing. Physical therapist practice involves the interaction between the physical therapist, patients or clients, families, care givers, other health care providers and communities, in a process of assessing movement potential and in establishing agreed upon goals and objectives using knowledge and skills unique to physical therapists. The first professional qualification, obtained in any country, represents the completion of a curriculum that qualifies the physical therapist to use the professional title and to practise as an independent professional [World Confederation for Physical Therapy - Glossary http://www.wcpt.org/sites/wcpt.org/files/files/WCPT_glossary2014_version2_1.pdf]
SPEECH THERAPIST - HHCP4
A professional who is educated to assess speech and language development, treat language disorders, and help people with swallowing disorders. Specialising in providing therapeutic services for a specific age group is common among speech therapists, allowing for the fine-tuning of skills and exploring new tools and techniques [http://www.allaboutcareers.com/careers/job-profile/speech-therapist http://www.childspeech.net/glossary.html ]
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST - HHCP5
A professional who provides evaluation and treatment of daily living skills for individuals with disabilities (he helps people of all ages to carry out everyday activities which are essential for health and wellbeing). Occupational therapy is an important form of treatment for people of all age groups, and can be used to alleviate the incapacitating effects of congenital disabilities and disorders caused by accidents, trauma, abuse, ageing or disease.
[https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-roles/allied-health-professionals/occupational-therapist
http://www.allaboutcareers.com/careers/job-profile/occupational-therapist http://www.childspeech.net/glossary.html ]
PSYCHOLOGIST - HHCP6
A professional who studies cognitive, emotional and social processes and human behavior by observing, interpreting and recording how people relate to one another and their environments. Psychologists help people to cope with mental health issues, emotional problems and challenging situations using a range of psychological concepts and psychotherapeutic techniques."
Psychologists are often called upon to evaluate and/or assist older adults with life stress or crisis and adaptation to late life issues. Psychologists play an equally important role facilitating the maintenance of healthy functioning, accomplishment of new life-cycle developmental tasks, and/or achievement of positive psychological growth in the later years.
[http://www.truity.com/career-profile/psychologist http://www.allaboutcareers.com/careers/job-profile/counselling-psychologist ]
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR - HHCP7
Professional educators are professionals with formal education, working with children, youth and adults. The target of their intervention are people and communities who are in need of socio-educational interventions. The social educators working in a variety of contexts, through individual actions, services and community-based programs in respect of professional ethics. They practice a wide range of roles, including direct assistance, training, supervision and leadership, advice and research in the socio-educational field. http://cp2011.istat.it/
HOMECARE ASSISTANT - HHCP8
A person who, as a free-lance or under the supervision of a home health or social service agency, assists an older, ill or disabled person with household chores, bathing, personal care and other daily living needs. Help vulnerable people to manage their daily activities and to live as independently as possible. The assistant is also a moral aid who must listen well and be empathetic. An homecare assistant shouldn't provide any kind of health care.
SOCIAL CARE WORKER - HHCP9
Plan and provide professional care to vulnerable individuals and groups of all ages who experience marginalization, disadvantage or special needs; professional who don’t provide health care and home aid, but monitor the general status of a frail older adult (pointing out problematic situations to the appointed reference people), foster social participation, help with shopping or going out, make company etc.
COMPETENCE
The outcome of the assimilation of information through learning. Knowledge is the body of facts, principles, theories and practices that are related to a field of work or study [ECVET Questions and Answers 2011]
COMPENSATIVE LEARNING MODULES (CLMS)
CLMS are learning modules, composed by specific learning units (defined in term of knowledge, skills and transversal competences – according to ECVET), which target a specific “competence gap” that affects a certain Home Healthcare Practitioner (HHCP).
KNOWLEDGE
The proven ability to use knowledge, skills and personal, social and/or methodological abilities in work or study situations and in professional and personal development. [ECVET Questions and Answers 2011]
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Statements of what a learner knows, understands and is able to do on completion of a learning process defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competence. [ECVET Questions and Answers 2011]
LEARNING UNIT - UNIT OF LEARNING OUTCOMES
Component of a qualification, consisting of a coherent set of knowledge, skills and competence, which can be assessed and validated. [ECVET Questions and Answers 2011]
SKILL: The ability to apply knowledge and use know-how to complete tasks and solve problems. [ECVET Questions and Answers 2011]
ROLE: SET OF ACTIVITIES
Set of activities that are generally carried out by an individual within some organizationally relevant responsibility. This set of activities is related to a corresponding set of desired qualities such as experience, qualifications and personality traits possessed by the individual needed to fill the role. It may be a set of responsibilities, activities and authorizations.
SUPPORTING PARTNER
Stakeholders who profess an interest in the project and a willingness to be updated about its main progresses and results; while manifesting this interest a Supporting Partner can define the level of involvement in the project he/she would like to establish; an high level of involvement implies the willingness of contributing actively to project results, eg. integrating or revising the data in the framework.
WIZARD
An user interface type that presents a user with a sequence of dialog boxes that lead the user through a series of well-defined steps; tasks that are complex, infrequently performed, or unfamiliar may be easier to perform using a wizard [Wikipedia] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_(software)