Quality of Life of the Senior in Europe
Partners:
Municipality of Parma, Municipalities of Trollhattan, Norrkoping, and Skovde,
City of Worms and City of Tours.
Length of the project: 6 months (2008)
Objectives: Giving the increasing number of 60+ people
in good mental and physical health, the development of policies and actions
for seniors to let them cope better with their needs and to improve their
quality in everyday life is essential.
- Encourage seniors to become an active subject in the decision making process
- Increase the selection of products and services for elderly
- Develop innovative policies
Activities: A 3 days event held in Parma in November 2008
with plenary sessions and working groups.
Particular attention was paid at the cooperation of three level of actors:
the public organisations, the academic perspective with the participation
of Universities and the companies’ perspectives.
Results: A deep comparison of approaches has been developed
giving the variety of actors and the complexity of the issues.
After the seminar, three phases have been developed:
1 identification of the main characteristics of the target group (University)
2 test of the main features emerged in the first phase (local authorities)
3 analysis of the needs from an entrepreneurial point of view.
As a follow up a project have been proposed and approved at EU level.
This project has been co-financed by 
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