EMPOWERMENT OF VULNERABLE PEOPLE

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• EMPOWERMENT OF VULNERABLE PEOPLE
• An integrated project

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CIPES PiemonteConfederazione Italiana per la
Promozione della Salute e lEducazione Sanitaria

• In our society, not self
• sufficient-old people and
• migrant women are two
• vulnerable groups for
• the same reason namely
• the loss of value due to
• their present condition

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CIPES PiemonteConfederazione Italiana per la
Promozione della Salute e lEducazione Sanitaria

• The empowerment of
• vulnerable groups
• should be the task of a
• society that aims at
• equity and quality in
• health for all his
• Members

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CIPES PiemonteConfederazione Italiana per la
Promozione della Salute e lEducazione Sanitaria

• The piedmont branch
• of the Italian
• confederation for
• health promotion and
• education (CIPES)
• decided to tackle this
• problem in an
• integrated way

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CIPES PiemonteConfederazione Italiana per la
Promozione della Salute e lEducazione Sanitaria

• Very often old
• People need help
• for their everyday
• life

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CIPES PiemonteConfederazione Italiana per la
Promozione della Salute e lEducazione Sanitaria

• Very few families are in a condition
• to provide adeguate care to their
• elderly relatives at home. Old
• people homes are chosen by
• many families for giving adeguate
• care to their old relatives.
• However, most elderly people
• prefer remaining at home provided
• that an adeguated assistance is
• offered to them as they feel the
• eradication from their usual life
• enviroment and family and social
• links as a loss of value.

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CIPES PiemonteConfederazione Italiana per la
Promozione della Salute e lEducazione Sanitaria

• Moreover old people
• homes are quite
• expensive and often
• local welfare trusts must
• cover the fees, thus
• putting a burden on the
• society

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CIPES PiemonteConfederazione Italiana per la
Promozione della Salute e lEducazione Sanitaria

• An alternative efficient
• solution would be
• offering them adeguate care at home by means
• of well trained women

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CIPES PiemonteConfederazione Italiana per la
Promozione della Salute e lEducazione Sanitaria

• Many migrant women
• from eastern Europe
• seek occupation in the
• field of old people care
• lacking formation for any
• type of work

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CIPES PiemonteConfederazione Italiana per la
Promozione della Salute e lEducazione Sanitaria

• The quality of care that
• they can give is rather
• poor, still many families
• offer them underpaid
• work that they are
• forced to accept as
• they are mostly
• irregular migrants that
• lack any legal tutelage

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CIPES PiemonteConfederazione Italiana per la
Promozione della Salute e lEducazione Sanitaria

• The welfare department
• of Piedmont Region
• devoted a fund for
• providing adeguate
• traning to migrant
• women who take care
• of elderly non self
• sufficient people

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CIPES PiemonteConfederazione Italiana per la
Promozione della Salute e lEducazione Sanitaria

• Migrant women are
• offered a free 200 hour
• course of training in old
• people care

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CIPES PiemonteConfederazione Italiana per la
Promozione della Salute e lEducazione Sanitaria

• Additional financial
• resources can be
• supplied by local
• welfare and health
• trusts

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CIPES PiemonteConfederazione Italiana per la
Promozione della Salute e lEducazione Sanitaria

• Qualified migrant
• women who accept to
• take care of an old not
• self sufficient person at
• home are offered legal
• tutelage and adeguate
• retribution

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CIPES PiemonteConfederazione Italiana per la
Promozione della Salute e lEducazione Sanitaria

• Families which employ
• irregular migrant women are
• offered a care service free of
• cost from the local welfare
• and health trust for the whole
• time during which their
• migrant persons are attending
• the training course provided
• that they will offer a regular
• work contract to them at the
• end of the course

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CIPES PiemonteConfederazione Italiana per la
Promozione della Salute e lEducazione Sanitaria

• Special agencies will
• put into contact
• families that need
• qualified care for their
• elderly non self
• sufficient relatives and
• Licensed migrant
• women

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CIPES PiemonteConfederazione Italiana per la
Promozione della Salute e lEducazione Sanitaria

• Families that employed
• irregular migrant women for
• taking care of their relatives
• will not be persecuted
• provided that they keep
• the migrant woman after
• qualification with a regular
• work contract pilot trial has
• been planned in five health
• districts, concerning 200
• migrant women with a
• budget of 1 million Euro

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CIPES PiemonteConfederazione Italiana per la
Promozione della Salute e lEducazione Sanitaria

• It is forecast that at regimen
• this project will enable most
• old not self sufficient people
• to remain at home in the
• whole region and that the
• cost for old people homes
• will be reduced