Affordable age- and eco-friendly solutions to age in place

Affordable age- and eco-friendly solutions to age in place

Category:
User Experience

Net4Age Ontology Terms:
aging , autonomy , building , city , community , education , experience , housing , neighbor , people , place , sustainability , wellbeing

Description:

Erasmus project to co-create with older adults the best solutions

Overview: 
The AFECO project aims to promote older adults' skills and competences that allow them to analyse and use affordable age-friendly and eco-friendly principles in their physical environment (at home or in the neighbourhood).

Objectives: 
The main objective of the AFECO is to develop a well-structured and open e-learning platform aiming to raise awareness and educate older people, (in)formal caregivers and social workers regarding:

Initiatives: 
To combine the AFE with eco Friendly principles together at community level
Shortcomings: 
Need to have an higher level of Policy makers engagement to support the changes along with the Project implementation
Relevance: 
4
Relevance Description: 
The combination of AFE and the environmental dimension is worth for similar initiatives and projects that could be imporoved in the NET4Age COST activities
Quality: 
4
Opinion: 
It is a relevant experience that could be scaled up (e.g. thinking about a Horizon Europe CSA Project)
Overlap: 
Yes
Overlap Detail: 
There are similar aprroaches in SHAFE and in Hands on SHAFE experiences ( apart from the environmental side)
Sources: 
www.afeco.eu
Keywords: 
Older empowerment about AFE implementation having also the enviromental sensitivity , open e-learning platform in education
Email: 
oscarzanutto@gmail.com