In most European countries the lifestyle of families has changed: late marriages, low birth rates, single–parent families, and increasing numbers of lonely and elderly people have become prevailing factors. In this scenario social workers and adult educators are facing new challenges: how to better integrate interventions in order to promote the wellbeing of elderly people in a holistic way; how to create new learning environments, especially in elderly care centres by opening their specific educational provisions to local communities; how to foster and improve one`s own personal and professional competencies to increase and diversify educational provision and be more integrated in the local life-long learning community.
NNOMEC is designed to acknowledge the fact that “active ageing is the process of optimizing opportunities for health, participation and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age”
(Global Age Friendly Cities: A guide, World Health Organisation, 2007). We strongly believe that learning in later life is a vital ingredient of active ageing.
We aim to:
By testing, developing, and providing:
The peer-to-peer training in Brussels