INDEED Innovation for Dementia in the Danube Region

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As a consequence of demographic change, dementia is a growing societal challenge in the Danube region. However, the quality of dementia care lags behind European standards in terms of knowledge, skills and cooperation of healthcare professionals, availability of specific services, and use of assistive technology. The Danube region also suffers from emigration of healthcare workers.

The main objective of INDEED is to improve dementia care in the Danube region and contribute to the implementation of national dementia strategies with the scope of enhancing the quality of life of people with dementia and their carers. In a collaborative effort of partners from 10 countries INDEED creates an information and skill-building intervention for institutions involved in dementia care and their members or employees, including health and social services, professional associations, governmental authorities, public administrations and private enterprises.

The INDEED project has created an educational and skill-building intervention for multiple occupational groups involved in dementia care. Through enhancing the capacity of professionals for optimally dealing with the medical, psychological, interpersonal and organisational challenges associated with dementia the project aims to improve the quality of life of people living with dementia and their informal (family) carers. The three components of the intervention (education, integration, innovation) respond to three major gaps that exist in dementia care in many countries of south-eastern Europe:

  • lack of dementia-specific knowledge and skills among professionals involved in dementia care,
  • poor interprofessional collaboration and coordination,
  • absence of key services such as day care, home helpers or carer support.

The intervention is available in a traditional format (workshop materials) and as an online training platform.The online training platform comprises 3 modules: an interdisciplinary training (CAMPUS), a networking tool (CONNECT), and a business consulting service (COACH). Through the existing multilingual educational programme, its modular structure and the convenient multimedia online format, the INDEED project is ideally suited to provide professionals with suggestions and solutions how to maintain the quality of life of people with dementia, how to intensify interaction and collaboration and how to adapt and innovate service delivery in times of social distancing and lockdown.

The project has also a 6 months extension that will be ended by December 31, 2021.

The ambitious aim of the project extension is to complement, within 6 months, the existing INDEED educational intervention by a chapter on the management of dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in times of social distancing and lockdown abd is in line with the “EU response to COVID-19” (2020) which emphasises the need for supporting “experts training” (https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_604).

The extension chapter will focus on: the specific needs of people with dementia brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and how to meet them; the specific needs of family carers; the requirement of more intensive interprofessional communication, collaboration and coordination; the creation of alternative ways of service delivery in times of restricted face-to-face contact and consultation including good-practice examples.

Innovation for Dementia in the Danube Region
Start date
01-07-2018
End date
31-12-2021
Budget in Euro
Overall: 1.963.600,02EUR
ERDF Contribution: 1.600.439,50EUR
IPA Contribution: 55.836,50EUR
ENI Contribution: 12.784,00EUR
Call number
Call 2
Priority
Innovative and socially responsible Danube region
Specific objective
Increase competences for business and social innovation

Library

Filename Date of upload
INDEED focus group report 12-01-2022 14:30:12
Factsheet Dementia in Corona times 10-12-2021 13:57:54
INDEED factsheet on piloting workshops results 09-03-2021 09:57:32
INDEED Trailer_English 12-11-2019 17:19:32
Strategy Statement_3.1-V2 02-06-2019 20:07:30
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Project Partners

Name Type Email Country
Technical University of Munich Lead partner a.kurz@tum.de GERMANY
The Brain Company GmbH ERDF partner peter.hofinger@thebraincompany.net AUSTRIA
Vienna University of Economics and Business ERDF partner Christian.Schober@wu.ac.at AUSTRIA
Bulgarian Society of Dementia ERDF partner Shima_meh@yahoo.com BULGARIA
National Institute of Mental Health ERDF partner ales.bartos@nudz.cz CZECH REPUBLIC
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Project News

  • INDEED - project ending - Thank you all!
    - 20-12-2021
    project ending - Thank you all!

    We are now announcing the successful ending of the INDEED project, coordinated by Technical University of Munich and implemented by 21 partners from 11 countries in Southern Europe that aimed to improve dementia care in their countries. The...

  • INDEED - Conference "Medical Days Dr. Mircia Iorga - Family Physician, Practitioner and Manager", December 9-11
    - 20-12-2021
    Conference "Medical Days Dr. Mircia Iorga - Family Physician, Practitioner and Manager", December 9-11

    We had the great opportunity to speak about our project and the special chapter regarding Dementia in Times of Corona, at the Conference "Medical Days Dr. Mircia Iorga - Family Physician, Practitioner and Manager" that took place in a virtual...

  • INDEED - UPCOMING EVENT - Conference "Brain Ageing and Dementia in Low and Middle Income Countries", December 9th 2021
    - 07-12-2021
    UPCOMING EVENT - Conference "Brain Ageing and Dementia in Low and Middle Income Countries", December 9th 2021

    Our INDEED project will be presented at the Conference "Brain Ageing and Dementia in Low and Middle Income Countries" that will take place in a virtual format in December 9th . The presentation will be part of the session "Dementia challenges...

  • INDEED - short video of the online learning platform
    - 06-12-2021
    short video of the online learning platform

    The INDEED project team developed a short video with the most important features of the online learning platform! We are kindly inviting you to watch it on the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnsSfThaBdA

  • INDEED - UPCOMING EVENT - Conference "Medical Days Dr. Mircia Iorga - Family Physician, Practitioner and Manager"
    - 06-12-2021
    UPCOMING EVENT - Conference "Medical Days Dr. Mircia Iorga - Family Physician, Practitioner and Manager"

    Our INDEED project will be presented to the Conference "Medical Days Dr. Mircia Iorga - Family Physician, Practitioner and Manager" that will take place in a virtual format, during December 9-11! We'll come back with more details after the...

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