Itália
3235
Data de início: 02-09-2013
Data de fim: 02-06-2014
Vagas: 3
Duração: 9 mes(es)
Data limite de candidatura: 25-04-2013
Financiamento: Candidatura
Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 115 €
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Resumo: The volunteers will dedicate most of their time to entertainment activities with the opportunity to improve them with new proposals, ideas and suggestions according to their abilities, motivations and background. We are convinced that the volunteers, being able to test their strength in such an experience as the European Voluntary Service, are young people full of resources, gifted with personal initiative and creativity. Their presence and their help will represent for us an important support in the realization of our activities and in the improvement of the quality of life of our guests.
The volunteer has the possibility to learn the rehabilitative methods concerning entertainment, as the Rot therapy, the "validation" therapy, the music therapy and the pet therapy. Furthermore, the volunteer will acquire the capacity to approach to disadvantaged people and to colleagues.
Our main objectives are:
- let the volunteers know the Italian culture and let them develop an attitude of helpfulness and openness towards different habits, traditions and customs;
- contributing to overcome stereotypes and prejudices in the young foreign volunteers and in the local community;
- creating an occasion of intergenerational and intercultural exchange among volunteers and elderly people.
Perfil: - age: 18 until 30 years old
- ability to work with Elderly People
Tarefas: The main activities in our organization are:
- collaborating with the entertainment staff during outdoor and indoor activities:
reading and commenting on short stories taken from books and newspapers, games whose aim is stimulation and reasoning, one-to-one entertainment through dialogue, caresses and smiles; help in the orientation to reality, sensorial stimulation, activities for encouraging relations among elderly people, among guests and the whole organization; work activities in groups with the support of multimedia instruments, as well;
- supporting the staff during the moments of surveillance or during the main meals of the guests
ENTERTAINMENT ACTIVITIES WHICH ARE ORGANISED IN THE ORGANIZATION
The activities are organized as follows:
Stimulation of memory and attention through:
- repetition training, recognition or completion of lists of words, couples of words, numbers
- sequences of events to reorder according to a logical connection
- reading and comment on short stories taken from book and newspapers
- enigmatic;
- Puzzle;
- linguistic games (similarities, vocabulary);
- vision and comment on a movie;
- group of reminiscence in which elderly people live again their life stimulated and helped by the information collected in the personal dossier or by personal objects.
Therapy of orientation to reality through the information about year, month, day, time, place that are provided to elderly people through the calendar at the beginning and during the day usually before the reading of a newspaper;
Discussion group and the reworking of past experiences with a special attention to the enhancement of the emotive situation and their self confidence and stimulation od reduction of the depressive feelings;
Work therapy consists in creating objects related to an event or a project arranged with elderly people (for example: the restoration of objects with the decoupage technique, knitting or works with the salty/maize dough);
Socialization activities: parties, songs, dances, group exercises, bingo and quizzes.
Entertainment activities organised outside the structure or with external collaborations:
Excursions, sea stays, outings to the market or to the mall;
Visits to parents, friends or other structures,
Organisation of cultural and recreational events in which the elderly people are protagonists or audience,;
Participation to events organised by the community or other institutions
The volunteers will have the opportunity to create their own project with people suffering from Alzheimer (supporting them for example during the session of music-therapy or art-therapy) and with other elderly people (suggesting creative activities as manual works, music that could stimulate the cognitive functions and memory).
The volunteers will have to follow the instructions given by the person in charge of the project in order to carry out their duty and to take care of elderly people at their best. In addition to this, they will have to be in possession of a medical certificate
The entertainers' coordinator will decide with the volunteers the concretization of a project and, during the equipe meeting, it is offered to them the possibility to express their opinions on their own and on others' projects. Taking part in the monthly equipe meetings the volunteers will have the opportunity to deal with qualified staff to acquire specific skills and above all, to mature a professional experience.
The day in the Home for Elderly People is organized in two shifts, as follows:
Morning shift:
8.30 assistance for the breakfast helping elderly people;
9-11:00 entertainment activities (in the morning the local newspaper is usually read and commented with elderly people, going to the mass in the church inside the home, outings to the market are organised when the weather is sunny);
11-12 assistance for the lunch supporting elderly people;
12-14.30 lunch break in the canteen of the structure;
Afternoon shift:
14.30-17.30 entertainment (in the afternoon to elderly people are usually proposed activities as bingo, knitting, puzzle, crosswords, discussion groups, creation of objects during the work therapy, singing, music therapy, theme parties and birthday parties, outings to the shopping centre are organized, etc);
17.30-18.30 assistance for the dinner supporting elderly people.
Except for the support during meals, volunteers won't be required to provide other assistance activities
The home for elderly people is open for others from 08.00 till 20.00.
The volunteer will not have particular responsabilities, but his/hers duty is to follow the instruction from the qualified staff in order to fullfil his/hers tasks.
In the Home for Elderly People, the volunteers will collaborate with the staff for seven hours a day for five days a week. The timetable is agreed with the mentor: some changes are possible according to the demands and the needs of the organization and the volunteer. The working time can reach a maximum of 35 hours a week. The volunteer will enjoy a rest of two consecutive days a week. Holidays will be directly agreed with the volunteer (2 weeks every six months of service).
Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês + Ficha de Inscrição
Download: 2865 - Application Form Tempo Libero.doc
