Lituânia

6054

Data de início: 01-09-2016

Data de fim: 01-06-2017

Vagas: 1

Duração: 9 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 18-03-2016

Financiamento: Financiamento por aprovar

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 80 €

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Resumo: The host organization is a modern institution the purpose of which is to assure the long-term social care of fully or partially dependent elderly people and to ensure secure and dignified aging. Preference to be accommodated is given to the exiles.

Exiles are Lithuanians who were forcefully repatriated to labour camps and Gulags (prison camps) in Siberia by Soviet government. At the moment we have 80 people, aged 66-100.
The organization is located in a city in a peaceful place surrounded by a beautiful forest and the river, you can reach it with a public transport. The organization maintains an active bond with the local community: with a centre for Art and Education as well as with the people living in the surrounding area.

Our target groups are elderly with dementia and elderly who have physical disabilities. We have special daily activities for elderly with dementia such as listening to the music from their past, watching funny movies, reading out loud poetry, playing dominoes, singing old folk songs, putting a puzzle together, colouring pictures, exercising. Physiotherapist organizes the daily physiotherapy exercises and North Walking activity. Social workers offer
other different activities for elderly without dementia too: participating in our care house Choir activity, Literacy and Classical music club. We often attain professional musicians, actors, poets, folk artists wishing to perform at our home.

Perfil: Basic requirements - respect for the person, self-motivation in work with retired people, willingness to develop a bond in spite of a verbal barrier, patience, equal attentiveness towards each and every one, initiative (willingness to do something, bringing up new ideas), positive attitude towards the work, concentration on the process rather than the result, ability to do things slow, working according to the persons timing, team working skills, ability to
withstand smells and physiological fluids.
Age: 17-30

Tarefas: The volunteers will be given the opportunity to learn about the specifications of the work with elderly people. The main role of the volunteers will be an assistance for the elderly who have dementia and/or physical disabilities. They will improve communication, social skills as well as they will become better at understanding gestures and facial expressions, identifying and recognizing the feelings of others, demonstrating empathy, decoding body language,
determining appropriate behaviour for different social situations. They will learn how to bond and react in an appropriate way to the need of a disabled person in spite of the verbal barrier.

Possible activities for the volunteers: to help a client with personal hygiene (such as washing a client's face, helping to brush teeth), to go for a walk with a client (if a client haslimited mobility - organise walk with a wheelchair), to help a client to dress and undress, to assist a client with eating, drinking, to help a social worker to organise an everyday activities, to help a social worker to organise celebrations, events, to help physiotherapist to organize the North Walking activity, to help physiotherapist to organize the physiotherapy exercises

Condições: 1

Documentação: CV + Carta de motivação em inglês