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Data de início: 06-09-2012

Data de fim: 06-06-2013

Vagas: 1

Duração: 9 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 30-04-2012

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 115 €

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Resumo: The Home for Elderly People of Pisogne covers an area of 10.500 square meters, with ample green spaces that can be freely used by the patients and their families.

We can host up to 90 people in 4 buildings. The Senior Centre hosts up to 20 people.

It is located in the province of Brescia, in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy and is 46 Km. far from Brescia, 47 Km. from Bergamo, 80 Km from Verona, 100 Km from Milan (reachable by car, train and bus). The nearest airports are the ones of Montichiari (between Verona and Brescia) and Orio al Serio (Bergamo).

The village of Pisogne, which has a population of about 7.000 inhabitants, is located in a tourist area on the banks of the Iseo Lake (famous for the activities of surfing, sailing, for its splendid small beaches and the biggest lake island of Italy, Montisola). The economy of the village is linked to the presence of some important companies and to mountain and lake tourism.

Pisogne is a part of Vallecamonica, famous for its ancient rock incisions (at about 30 km far from Pisogne), for the ski runs of Val Palot (hamlet of Pisogne), Monte Campione (at about 15 km far from Pisogne), Ponte di Legno (at about 60 km far from Pisogne) and Tonale (at about 80 km far from Pisogne), as well as the mountainous tracks of the Adamello Park.

Vallecamonica is also rich in art and culture (the Roman Theatre of Cividate Camuno, the frescos of Girolamo Romanino of the 16th century of the Church of S. Maria della Neve in Pisogne and of S. Antonio in Breno).

RULES AND CONDITIONS
¢ Closing time of the centre is at 11.00 p.m. every night; volunteers will not be obliged to respect the closing time and will be given keys in order to have the possibility to come back when they want. In case of unfair behaviour the keys will be requisitioned.

¢ It's not possible to host friends and relatives.
¢ Meals are provided within the centre at fixed times: 12-13 for lunch and 18-19 for dinner. Volunteers are required to respect these times. As for breakfast volunteers can go to the bar or can arrange it autonomously in their room.

¢ Being a sanitary structure, smoking is strictly forbidden.
¢ It's also absolutely prohibited to bring in alcoholic drinks.
Volunteers will have the opportunity to develop their relational skills learning how to relate with elderly people with dementia; in particular they will learn how to be condescending towards old people avoiding to contradict them, using a placid tone of voice and reassuring them. They will be taught the typical characteristics of Alzheimer (i.e. emotional fragility, delirium, mental disorder, cognitive and memory deficit, iterative or senseless way of speaking). They will increase their capacity to identify the different roles and specific competences of the various professional figures; they will learn specifically to recognize the interests of the elderlies, the dynamics existing in families where there's an old person, how a Home for Elderly People is organised and how it works. The EVS experience will give the volunteer the opportunity to increase his/her competencies, to know the standard of the social sector in Europe and hence to develop European consciousness.

Our Home for Elderly People is located in Pisogne (BS) and we provide services for the elderlies.
At the head of the organisation there's a Board of Directors composed of the President, four Board members and a Director General. The staff is composed of healthcare personnel (doctors, psychologist, nurses, physiotherapists, educators, assitance staff for personal care, social assistant, cooks and employees. We have also volunteers of local associations that deal with gardening, transportation, entertainment and other simple duties.

Part of our structure is dedicated to host elderly people that are not self-sufficient and that need permanent day and night assistance.
The Senior Centre hosts aged persons that suffer from a small psychophysical deterioration but that have to be stimulated to avoid eventual isolation; these old people are involved in afternoon activities and go back home in the evening with their family.
Moreover self-sufficient elderly people, who want to benefit from the services offered by our centre and maintain their autonomy and independence, can live in the mini-apartments within our centre benefiting of all the services that we provide.

The main services provided are the following:

¢ Diagnosis, care and medical assistance (guaranteed by doctors day and night);
¢ Psycho-diagnosis and psychological support;
¢ Nurse assistance;
¢ Assistance in the every day life activities;
¢ Kinesitherapy rehabilitation;
¢ Occupation of leisure time through entertainment activities inside and outside the structure.
¢ Canteen service;
¢ Home meals service;
¢ Home assistance.

The centre is also equipped with a meeting room, a hall for the organisation of parties and events, and a bar.

Perfil: All the yearlong we organise: trips, events of sensitization to the problems related to the senile condition, intergenerational exchanges with children from the primary and secondary schools and the high schools.
EVS volunteers will regularly attend Italian classes at Cooperativa Tempo Libero of Brescia and they will be linguistically supported by a former teacher living in Pisogne.

Volunteers have to be aware of the difficulty of working with non self-sufficient elderly persons that suffer from physical and mental disabilities; some of them present a diagnosis of dementia and Alzheimer.
The volunteer should be willing to accept the indications given by the staff in order to facilitate his/her interaction with the elderly.
He/she should be able to live in a complex residential reality that needs flexibility and ability of adaptation.

Selection criteria:

During the evaluation of applications, we'll take into consideration the profiles which better cling to the above mentioned requirements.
Transparency is guaranteed and no discriminations for sex, origin, walk of life, or linguistic knowledge will be pursued.

Tarefas: The dimension of interculturality is fundamental in our decision to host European volunteers. Our aims are:

¢ Giving the volunteers the possibility to meet Italian culture and develop an open and friendly attitude towards different habits and traditions;
¢ Contributing to the overcoming of prejudices and stereotypes in young volunteers and in the local community.

Volunteers will dedicate most of their time to entertainment activities which they can implement and develop with new proposals, ideas and suggestions in accordance with their motivation, skills, attitudes and background.

We think that volunteers are resourceful people endowed with a great spirit of enterprise and creativity.

Their presence and their help will be for us a great support in the development of our activities.

As specified above, the main aim of our activities is the stimulation of the cognitive capacities and of the emotional and relational resources in the elderly people.

This happens through the organisation of activities in which volunteers can have a role and can develop personal projects and proposals.

Entertainment activities inside the centre:

" Repetition, identification or completion of lists of words or numbers;
" Calculations;
" Logic games and exercises;
" Books and newspapers reading;
" Puzzles;
" Linguistic games;
" Films;
" Exercises in groups aimed at helping the elderly remembering their past lives;
" Therapy of orientation in the reality through the provision of information about the current year, season, month, day, time, place of residence; these pieces of information are provided every day (at the beginning and during the day) usually before reading the newspaper;
" Discussions with the elderly about their backgrounds, with particular eye on the appreciation of their emotional resources, their self-esteem and their motivation aiming at cutting down eventual depressive feelings;
" Occupational therapy: the elderly are requested to realise specific objects with a particular aim connected to a certain event or project (i.e. restoration of objects with the technique of découpage, or knitting, or working with salt dough, etc.);
" Activities for socialisation: feasts, singing, dancing, physical training, bingo, quiz, etc;
" Singing groups;
" Activities of music therapy;
" Pet Therapy with a Labrador dog.

Entertainment activities organised outside the centre:

" Periodical meetings with children, pupils and students of the local kindergarten and schools (for feasts, lunches, games, dancing events, or for specific projects agreed with the schools for the organisation of charities);
" Trips to the market or to the shopping centre;
" Calls to other organisations;
" Organisation of cultural and recreational activities where the elderly are either participants or spectators;
" Participation to events organised by the Municipality or by other institutions.

The volunteer will mostly collaborate with the entertainment staff for about 5,5 hours per day (27,5 hours per week; more or less 75% of the total time); s/he will collaborate with the assistance staff for about 1 hour every day (5 hours per week; about 15% of the time).

Volunteers are allowed (if they want to) to collaborate for 3 hours per week with the kinesitherapist (about 10%). This activity can be of interest for those volunteers that, at the end of EVS, are willing to go on working in the social field with elderly people.

Depending on his skills, the volunteer will develop crafts, music/creativity workshops or, in case of good knowledge of Italian language, he will have the opportunity to coordinate group discussions on movies, books, current events, etc.
Since our work is based on the relation with people it's necessary that duties and tasks are performed with motivation and enthusiasm.

Horário: A typical day at our centre is organised as follows:

" 9-11:00 collaboration with the entertainment staff (usually in the morning the local newspaper is read and commented on with the elderly, or trips to the market of the hamlet are organised when the weather allows it);
" 11.00-11.30 collaboration with the assistance staff for the supplying of the lunch to some elderly;
" 11.30-14.00 lunch in the canteen of the structure and free time for the volunteer;
" 14 -17 collaboration with the entertainment staff (usually in the afternoon the elderly are proposed activities like bingo, knitting, puzzle, crosswords, discussion groups, realisation of objects during the occupational therapy, singing, music therapy, theme parties and birthday parties, trips to the shopping centre, etc).
" 17:30-18:00 collaboration with the assistance staff for the supplying of the dinner to some elderly;

Documentação: CV, Carta de Motivação e ficha de candidatura