The purpose is aligned with a better integration and coordination between health care and social services, through community engagement and participatory co-design.
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Overview
BUILD seeks to involve older adults with complex care needs, formal and informal carers, communities, and policy-makers in the creation of person-centred integrated care (PC-IC) solutions.
What is Person-centred care?
In person-centred care systems, health and social care professionals work collaboratively with people who use services. Person-centred care supports people to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence they need, to more effectively manage and make informed decisions about their own health and health care. As person-centred care means putting the person in the foreground, it also includes the person of the formal caregiver, in the sense of developing person-centred workplace cultures. Crucially, it ensures that all people are always treated with dignity, compassion and respect.
This means that besides the role of institutions and organisations providing care, BUILD specifically addresses the role, diversity and voices of people – older adults with complex care needs, informal caregivers and the formal care staff – in facilitating and designing integrated care and develops a participatory methodology for building person-centred ecosystems of IC across Europe.
Through the development of a comprehensive framework and toolbox, BUILD will facilitate the implementation of participatory co-design methodologies and community engagement strategies as methods to develop socially inclusive and sustainable PC-IC solutions for older adults with complex care needs that can be evaluated via the Social Return on Investment (SROI).
