This challenge addresses the need to identify intervention proposals and healthcare and/or community strategies to prevent and minimise the risk of the unwanted institutionalisation of dependent persons who are cared for at home, improving their quality of life and that of the non-professional carers who look after them and care for them.
Background
The majority of people wish to grow old at home and to remain at home for as long as possible, even when they require support as a result of their state of dependency, and for the necessary support to be provided in their usual environment, their home and/or their community.
For this reason, the Bizkaia Provincial Council, in addition to managing care services of a residential nature, wishes to further its efforts in identifying strategies and proposals for healthcare and community intervention that minimise the risk of the unwanted institutionalisation of dependent persons and improve their quality of life, as well as that of their carers.
In Bizkaia, there are currently around 40,000 people with a recognised degree of dependency , of whom over 21,000 receive an Economic Benefit for Care in the Family Environment (PECEF) and, therefore, in these households there is a person from the social and family network who lives with the dependent person and acts as a primary carer.
In this regard, the Bizkaia Provincial Council wishes to improve the quality of life of dependent persons who are cared for at home, as well as the quality of life of their non-professional carers, by identifying proposals for intervention, services, support, and prevention strategies both in the healthcare and/or community sphere that postpone dependency as much as possible, minimise the risk of unwanted institutionalisation, and increase the well-being of both the dependent person and their carers.
The Department of Social Action (DAS) wishes to further develop initiatives, proposals, and/or strategies aimed at this objective, guaranteeing adequate care for dependent persons who remain at home and reinforcing the support network of non-professional carers.
The aim of this challenge is to identify new strategies to be addressed by the Bizkaia Provincial Council in order to support increased personalisation of care for dependent persons who are cared for at home, where they wish to remain even if they need support, and also to support the development of the well-being of their carers.
Through this challenge, the Bizkaia Provincial Council aims to identify new responses, niche strategies, and models for detecting specific groups of frail people in order to determine personalised strategies and initiatives for long-term care at home.
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2. Bases of the Challenge (PDF)