The event, organized by the two Danish partners  and hosted by the Municipality of Aarhus, took place on the yearly vaccination day at the local community center where elders can meet up to get a vaccination against flu, free of charge. In the event, partners from Dan Age, from a hearing aid company and from the Nursing University College of Aarhus participated, along with representatives from other municipalities, medical practitioners and elders.

More than 25 partners and elders attended the TECHSenior event, introducing the participants to the TECHSenior project and the material developed. Several partners and elders showed a particular interest in the online course material on the TECHSenior website and they gave feedback on the training material as well.

In the framework of information on the European Project TechSenior (Erasmus + -KA2), a Multiplier Event will take place on April 19th in Patras, Greece.

TechSenior is a two-year European project, which started in October 2016 and is implemented under the Erasmus + Program (KA2).

The aim of the project is to train older people to be able to use new technologies, in order to improve their standard of living and maintaining their correspondent autonomy.

The purpose of the Multiplier Event is to inform the public concerned about the project, but also to inform about the two training programs that will be created for the implementation of the project. The first one program will concern the training of caregivers and trainees, and the second one creation of an e-learning platform for the elderly.

The Multiplier Event will be framed by speeches on the use of electronic devices by older people. More specifically:

• Mr. Chrysanthopoulos will talk about the problems of the elderly in the modern era, with an emphasis on the social life of the elderly and their daily routine.
• Mr. Avouris will talk about how technology can help the elderly (applications – internet – good practices).
• Mr. Panagiotis G. Anastassopoulos and Mrs. Charitini-Maria Skoulidi from p-consulting will develop the topic “Internet, this stranger. Presentation of the Techsenior Project”.
• Last but not least, Mr. Koulis Stefanos from KOISPE “Faros”, will finish the Multiplier Event with a speech on “Daily life of older people linked to their mental health”.

The Multiplier Event will be co-organized by p-consulting and KOISPE “FAROS”, and will take place in the Chamber of Achaia.

by P-consulting

On October 31 our CDEA Centre, the Errotu company (architecture for the design of personalized therapeutic environments) and Hotel Advisor Consulting (management, marketing and hotel counselling) today organized a conference on Accessible Tourism in the CDEA facilities. The objective of the meeting was to share the good practices of the European TECHSenior “Technology for Assisting Seniors” to project (2017-2019) coordinated by SOSU Ostjilland, Denmark together with training centres in England, Belgium, Spain and Greece.

Technology for Assisting Seniors means technology to enable older people to engage actively in all aspects of community life and stay independent longer

During the day, from 10:30 am to 3:00 pm, Paloma Enríquez and Mª José Irastorza from CDEA took part; Guillaume Fontagné, from Hotel Advisor Consulting; Mª José Moreno, from Errotu; Asier Landa and Zuriñe de Anzola, from Bask for all (“Tourism for all people”); Luis Casado, from the Iddeas Foundation for Inclusive Marketing; Graciela Imaz, from SECOT (Association of Seniors for Technical Cooperation); Koldo Aulestia, of AFAGI (Association of Relatives and Friends of People with Alzheimer’s and other dementias of Gipuzkoa); Norma Andrade, from ELKARTU (Coordinator of People with Physical Disability of Gipuzkoa); Xabier Eleizegi and Josu Maroto, from the Diputación de Gipuzkoa; Isabel Aguirrezabal, from the City Council of Donostia – San Sebastián; Fernando Soto, from the Zenit Hotel in San Sebastián, and Kino Martínez, from the Hospitality Association of San Sebastián.

Companies, institutions and associations have discussed the situation of Technologies for Assisting Seniors in Gipuzkoa and have concluded that, although the situation is much better than in other areas, there is still much to improve and to raise awareness and, also, it is necessary to give visibility to all those initiatives that are made and that are not reported. In addition, as Zuriñe de Anzola of Bask For All has pointed out, “many times, although the Administration puts measures in favour of Technologies for Assisting Seniors, still we have a long way to go.