Social Work Networks for the Elderly with Mental Disorders – a Comparative Insight (original) (raw)

Journal Plus Education, 2018

Abstract

Our article refers to the work of the Reseaux professionnels et personnes âgees project, which is an ERASMUS Plus project, a strategic project aimed at improving the professional networks of intervention and care for the elderly who have contacted a mental illness. The project puts forward innovative objectives through close collaboration between the partners involved who have a diversified professional experience. The project benefits from a multidisciplinary team: sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, doctors, pedagogues, social workers, etc. who, through study, exchange of good practices and experience, aim to improve the professional skills of professionals accompanying older people with mental health problems. Their interventions aim at improving the quality of life of elderly people in vulnerable and risk situations. The purpose of the project is in fact to have a dual perspective: improving healthcare networks and optimizing the care of elderly people with mental health...

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