Raising the Rights of Elderly People and Elderly care Services to the EU Standards

Project aimed to raise awareness about elderly rights and available elderly care services in Turkey, to establish long-term cooperation among NGOs in Turkey and EU working with elderly people, to improve the quality of care and support services for elderly people in Turkey through the transfer of best practices in line with EU standards, and to enhance the institutional capacities of CSOs working on elderly issues.

Year(s): 2014-2015

Target group(s): Elderly people in Turkey

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Methodology

• Country-based and comparative research and analysis,

• Study visits in Spain, Italy, Germany, and Turkey,

• Seminars to improve technical capacities of personnel providing services for elderly people in Turkey.

Type of product

Video clips / Films Course / Training

Brief description of the outcomes

• Study visit in Palermo exchanging with different types of organisations providing assistance to elderly: nursing homes, shelters and also voluntary organisations committed to increasing the active participation and roles of older people into the society
• REPES: study visit in Spain introducing innovative and new approaches to provide care to the elderly, such as Telecare services
• REPES – Rights of Elderly People and Care Services: a Comparative Study Between Turkey, Italy and Spain an overview about the rights of elderly people and status of elderly care service in Turkey, Italy and Spain – providing recommendations to raise the level of rights and assistance to elderly in Turkey in line with EU Standards
• Elderly rights: a comparison between EU and Turkey Final Conference [Ankara, November 2015]
• Turkish National TV spot about the projects funded under Civil Society Dialogue between EU and Turkey – III Programme

Impact on target groups / Transferability potential

The issue of elderly gained privileges in policy making in medium and long term, social rights and welfare of the elderly people improved and exercising of rights for the elderly people improved.

Promoter of the initiative: Yörük Türkmen Kültürüne Hizmet ve Dayanışma Vakfı

Country: Turkey

Languages available: English Turkish

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