Objectives
- 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
- To enhance the institutional capacities of CSOs working on elderly issues
Activities
- Country-based and comparative researches and analysis
- Study visits in Spain, Italy, Germany, and Turkey
- Seminars to improve technical capacities of personnel providing services for elderly people in Turkey
Results
- 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
Partners
- Coordinator: Yörtürk Foundation (Turkey)
- Fundació Campus Arnau D’escala – FCAE (Spain)
- CESIE (Italy)
