Promoting Social Inclusion of Elderly through Well-being Parties

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2023-11-11

Description

Description (EN):

SIPPE strives to create possibilities for innovative voluntary work for elderly together with older people and NGOs. Through creating new, low threshold possibilities for participation, project aims to support general well-being and social inclusion of elderly and increase the number of elderly volunteers. Project will be implemented by developing innovative voluntary work options for elderly. It will be actively marketed to and by elderly and the aim is to recruit enthusiastic elderly to take part in voluntary training. Materials and online platform for training will be created together with the elderly before the first cycle of training begins. Training will be conducted in small national groups and distance learning, tutorials, study visits to Finland/Estonia and learning-by-doing exercises will be used as methods. By completing the training elderly will get the title of registered volunteer and they will have abilities to organize well-being parties for local elderly. Parties around different well-being related themes, such as physical exercise and nutrition, will be organized. Model for these parties derives from Tupperware but without any monetary aspect. Participants to the parties are invited by a host who offers her/his house to be a venue for the occasion. Snowball effect is generated and participants at the parties are encouraged to host own parties or even become registered volunteers by themselves. As a result of SIPPE implementation number of trained and active elderly taking part in voluntary work has increased both in Turku region and in Tallinn region. Volunteering has contributed positively on their feeling of necessity and well-being. Well-being of local elderly has improved in wider level as well since older people have gained skills to maintain their health and activity at the well-being parties. Moreover, there are more possibilities for social participation than before.

Achievements (EN):

SIPPE - social activities for elderly people: Elderly people are vulnerable to loneliness, health problems, and depression. To support their well-being, project SIPPE developed a so-called well-being party method. Well-being parties aim at activating the elderly and to improve their overall well-being. Well-being parties are events hosted by elderly people themselves and focusing on topics such as nutrition, sleep and rest, participation in social life, nature, physical activities, and music. To enable these activities, the project developed a method to train elderly people as host/hostess of well-being parties. A handbook for volunteer host/hostess of wellbeing parties and a Guide for organizing and managing wellbeing parties were produced by the project and adopted as support material for the training. In the framework of the project, 25 elderly people were trained as party host/hostess volunteers. Altogether 1191 elderly people participate at wellbeing parties organised during the project. The project involved elderly people living both at homes and at elderly care centers in Tallinn and Turku. Elderly people who trained themselves as host/hostess of well-being party visited each other and these visits created lasting connections.

Website: http://centralbaltic.eu/

Expected Results (EN): R4.1. Communities with improvements

Expected Outputs (EN):

As a result of SIPPE project 1) the number of trained and active elderly volunteers has increased and 2) social networks, active participation and well-being among elderly has evolved. Innovative, low threshold voluntary working possibilities for elderly has been created and established in the regions of Turku and Tallinn. Motivated and active elderly volunteers have been trained to be registered volunteers and they know how to promote well-being and social networks of peer elderly. They also know how to organize well-being parties around different themes. In addition, supporting training materials and online platform has been developed. Special attention were given in recruiting the elderly to take part in the training, since voluntary work and its requirements are often unfamiliar to the elderly. People-to-people marketing and snow ball effect has been utilized actively.In addition to registered volunteers, SIPPE has reached a number of other elderly through well-being parties. In the well-being parties participating elderly have gotten information about healthy diet, physical activities, need of rest and social participation possibilities but more importantly tips how to implement these in their own lives in practice. By taking part in one party or in several parties elderly established new social contacts among local peers and got support for maintaining well-being. Registered volunteers also encouraged participants to bring out their own special skills in the parties, which strengthened participants’ feeling of necessity and supported self-esteem.As a result of the project elderly communities both in Turku and in Tallinn have encountered several improvements. Participation of elderly in communal voluntary activities has increased and thus also the social inclusion of elderly has improved. SIPPE activities have strengthened local safety networks and elderly are more capable to take care of themselves and of other older people in the community.

Thematic information

Education and training Social inclusion and equal opportunities

Specific Objective: More people benefiting from stronger Central Baltic communities

Thematic Objective: (10) investing in education, training and vocational training for skills and lifelong learning by developing education and training infrastructure

Investment Priority: (10 ETC) ETC specific, for cross-border cooperation: investing in education, training and vocational training for skills and lifelong learning by developing and implementing joint education, vocational training and training schemes

Partners (4)

Lead Partner: Turun ammattikorkeakoulu Oy

Department: Faculty of Health and Well-being

Address: Joukahaisenkatu 3 A, 20520 Turku, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.turunamk.fi

Total budget: EUR 154 638.34

ERDF budget: EUR 115 978.76

Turun lähimmäispalveluyhdistys ry

Name: Turun lähimmäispalveluyhdistys ry

Address: Luolavuorentie 4, 20810 Turku, Finland

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.kotikunnas.fi

Total budget: EUR 42 687.33

ERDF budget: EUR 32 015.50

Tallinna Tervishoiu Kõrgkool

Name: Tallinna Tervishoiu Kõrgkool

Address: Kännu 67, 13418 Tallinn, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ttk.ee

Total budget: EUR 51 178.47

ERDF budget: EUR 43 501.70

Vanurite Eneseabi- ja Nõustamisühing

Name: Vanurite Eneseabi- ja Nõustamisühing

Address: Jaan Poska 15, 10126 Tallinn, Estonia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.venu.ee

Total budget: EUR 20 726.47

ERDF budget: EUR 17 617.50

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The Association for Vicinity Services in Turku

Promoting Social Inclusion of Elderly through Well-being Parties

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Tallinna Tervishoiu Kõrgkool

Promoting Social Inclusion of Elderly through Well-being Parties

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The Self-Help and Advisory Association for Senior Citizens

Promoting Social Inclusion of Elderly through Well-being Parties

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Turku University of Applied Sciences Ltd.

Promoting Social Inclusion of Elderly through Well-being Parties

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Summary

Project name (EN): Promoting Social Inclusion of Elderly through Well-being Parties

Project acronym: SIPPE

Project start date: 2015-09-01

Project end date: 2017-08-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 269 230.61

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 209 113.45

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 209 113.45.

Documents

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Reports

Guide for organizing and managing wellbeing parties

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://database.centralbaltic.eu/results

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2017-08-31

Languages: fi

Attachment file: Download

Books

Handbook for volunteer host/hostess of wellbeing parties

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Book

Data source: http://database.centralbaltic.eu/results

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2017-08-31

Languages: fi

Attachment file: Download

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-11-11

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

137 / 137 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

663 / 663 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://centralbaltic.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-08, 2023-01-12 and 2024-03-08.

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Promoting Social Inclusion of Elderly through Well-being Parties

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