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Adult Educational Programmes as a Means of Supporting Health and Social Care of the Elderly in the Community

People's life spans have lengthened, forcing social and healthcare systems to develop policies to ensure the implementation of often long-term care. Long-term care requires large allocations from public finances, whether for formal care in institutions such as retirement and nursing homes, or for extra-institutional care in the form of social assistance and home health care. There is also informal, mostly family and unpaid care. Regardless of the source, the main role of the healthcare system is to provide help when the functional ability of the elderly is impaired. As the proportion of the elderly population increases, there is a need to ensure that enough people participate in caring for them. This paper presents a programme that aims to increase the number of qualified people to help other professionals provide quality care at home or in homes for the elderly. Such a programme was developed in collaboration between University of Applied Health Studies and the Teaching Institute of Public Health Dr. Andrija Štampar from Zagreb. The need is great, because in the area of the City of Zagreb alone, accommodation services for the elderly are provided in 11 municipal and 25 private homes for the elderly. 6 legal entities offer their services without having their own facility, as well as 35 family homes for the elderly.

elderly ; long-term care ; adult education

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