The project is focused on the creation and provision of different kinds of learning material for professionals working with people with intellectual disabilities (PwID):
A digital report stimulating awareness about the importance of physical activities for PwID
The specific objectives we intend to reach are:
- Raise awareness about needs and problems faced by ageing PwID.
- Encourage professionals working with ageing PwID to develop new skills and increase their competences in improving the conditions of PwID getting old.
- Highlight the importance of physical activities for aged PwID
- Sensitize a wider audience about the importance of active ageing for PwID, especially including the importance of physical activities.
- Stimulate their interest in learning new information related to the social field discussed.
- Broaden the community of professionals willing to put in practice solutions to foster active ageing for PwID, thus increasing the number of solutions and projects related to this topic.
- Higher sensibility in relation to conditions, problems and issues tackled by PwID that are getting old and by the various professionals that work with them
- Promote more tolerant and inclusive behaviours towards these people, empathy and the implementation of tailored solutions to improve their life conditions.
A digital manual containing methodologies and tools to face active ageing for PwID.
The specific objectives we intend to reach are:
- Provide a theoretical framework to professionals and nonprofessional caregivers willing to implement physical activities with PwID.
- Identify skills and aptitudes that can be developed by them and are useful for this purpose.
- Suggest tools that can be used to involve PwID in physical activities and to tailor these latter to their needs.
- Propose exercises that are easy to tailor and adapt to specific contest and/or disabilities.
- Broaden the community of professionals and nonprofessional figures who are capable of implementing physical activities .
- Programme for PwID, thus increasing the number of solutions and projects related to this topic.
- Improve knowledge and skills of professionals who are already working in the project field, thus ensuring an higher quality of their activities.
- Propose new ways of fostering active ageing for PwID through practical suggestions and advice.
An e-learning course containing digital solutions and tools to face active ageing for PwID.
The specific objectives we intend to reach are:
- Provide innovative solutions and practical tools which can be used by professionals and nonprofessional caregivers in order to implement physical activities with PwID.
- Develop skills and expertise of professionals and nonprofessional caregivers interested in the project topic through digital resources.
- Provide wider access to learning opportunities for a wider number of adults representing the project target groups.
- Provide additional digital learning opportunities for adults representing the project target groups.
- Broadening the community of professional and nonprofessional figures who are capable of implementing innovative and tailored physical activities programme for PwID, thus increasing the number of solutions and projects related to this topic and ensuring an higher quality of their activities.
- Foster familiarisation with digitalisation for adult learners interested in the project topic.
- Exploit digitalization in order to foster personalisation of physical programmes to specific contests and disabilities.
- Use digitalization to foster integration of the knowledge and skills developed in this project in the activities carried on by the target groups.
