REDUCING SOCIAL ISOLATION FOR OUR RESIDENTS IN LONG TERM CARE VIA SKYPE, A BEST PRACTICE

Project Name and Responsible

Lorraine B. - La France
Claire Babin
Ste. Anne de Bellevue,
Canada

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Interested to use Skype to connect your patients with their families, read here the Methodological Guide

Interessé par Skype pour connecter vos patients avec leurs familles, suivez le Guide Méthodologique

Video, in english (5:26 mn): Care Challenge : Nurses Lorraine La France and Claire Babin from Montreal, Canada

Project Description

Develop a system of communication using Skype that allows residents, regardless of their level of cognition, to virtually interact and bond with families and loved ones across generations who live anywhere in the world, without leaving the comfort and familiarity of their own room.

Project Agreement With The WeObservatory

-    Millennia2015 Charter signed : 17 November 2014

-    Dissemination of the project on the website and network of Millennia2015.

-    Exchanges with Millennia2015 communities

-    Publications

-    Presentations at international conferences

-    Elaboration of a generic online methodological guide on the use of Skype to reduce isolation of elderly, in English and French

Planned Activities 2014 - 2015

-    Presentation at 4ème journées de la Société Française des Technologies pour l'Autonomie et de Gérontologie, Paris, 24 – 25 November 2014 - /WeObs_Events

-    Presentation at the International Conference SIDIIEF, Montreal, 31 May – 5 June 2015 - /WeObs_Events

Contacts and Collaborations

ISfTeH – International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth – Working Group on Women - http://wow.isfteh.org/
Women's Leader Forum http://www.adaorganization.net/
UNFM/RAFT (Université Numérique Francophone Mondiale) www.unfm.org/
Communautés Millennia2015 en Afrique francophone /communities/

Results

-    The Methodological Guide on the use of Skype to reduce isolation of Elderly is published online and printed in English and French