Our Speakers

Director Edgar Führer is currently E.D.E Education officer and member of the E.D.E. - he is also a founding member of the EDE. and a founding member of the Austrian umbrella organization -  there he was the long-term vice president and currently he is its honorary president.
He is the founder of the Working Group in Lower Austria (ARGE NÖ Heime) and its longtime chairman.
After many years in the printing industry, he moved to the health and social sector and also completed a corresponding training at the "Cardinal King Academy" in Vienna in the field of social management.
For more than 20 years he managed a foundation for nursing and care facility and was also very active as a consultant and project developer for health policy. The promotion of Palliative care has always a priority. In his politically responsibility for the health sector of the region Waldviertel three hospitals (with eight departments) were built. One of this hospital is a psychosomatic center and the installation of this facility meant a major health care reform for the region and he worked as CED and after that he was the chairman of the supervisory board of this psychosomatic center. The establishment of a neurological rehabilitation clinic goes back to his initiative.
Now he is working on the development of the Erasmus project for training of professionals involved in social and health care.

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Be old and live well 2050". Preparing our future. New EDE certification Project

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Dr. Áine Ní Léime is Chair of COST Action IS1409, Gender, Health and Extended Working Life in Western Countries a research network with over 100 researchers from 34 countries.  She is a Senior Researcher at the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology at NUI Galway. She has just completed a Marie Sklodowska Curie International Outgoing Research fellowship, spending two years at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and one year at the National University of Ireland Galway. She conducted a cross-national study entitled Gender, Older Workers and the Lifecourse (GENDOWL). She is currently the Principal Investigator for the Irish portion of the H2020 NORFACE-funded project on Dynamics of Accumulated Inequalities for Seniors in Employment (DAISIE) a cross-national study involving researchers from five European countries. Her recent publications are in the area of ageing policy, gender, older workers, pensions and the lifecourse. Selected recent publications include:

• Ní Léime Á, Street, D, Vickerstaff S, Krekula, C, Loretto, W, (2017) Gender and Extended Working Life: Cross-national Perspectives, Bristol, Policy Press.
• Duvvury N, Ní Léime Á, and Callan A (2017) European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology
• Ní Léime, Á, and Street, D., (2016) 'Gender and age implications of extended working life policies in the US and Ireland', Critical Social Policy, DOI: 10.1177/0261018316666211 csp.sagepub.com.
• Ní Léime, Á. (2016) 'Older women public sector workers in Ireland; decisions about retirement timing'. Journal of Women and Aging.  DOI:10.1080/08952841.2016.1196079
• Addabbo, T,  Bastos, A, Casaca, S F, Duvvury, N.,  Ní Léime, Á.(2015) 'Gender and labour in times of austerity: Ireland, Italy and Portugal in comparative perspective', International Labour Review, Vol. 154  No. 4, 1-20.

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Extended Working Life for Healthcare workers in the United States and Ireland

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Policies to Extend Working Life (EWL) are proposed as a solution to the societal challenge of population ageing and anticipated increased pension costs. However in most OECD countries, there are existing gender inequalities in relation to employment and pension coverage. This poses the research question, what are  the likely implications of the introduction of EWL policies  as they are currently  constructed  for men and women?n Does this differ across occupational groups?  This paper is based on analysis of findings from a cross-national comparative study between the US and Ireland where 120 workers, 60 men and 60 women were interviewed. Findings suggest that EWL policies are likely to exacerbate existing gender inequalities and inequalities across occupations, based on health and precarity of work.

Jiří Horecký started his work career as director of Caritas Tabor, later he worked as care home director. Nowadays he works as the president of the Union of Employers´ associations in the Czech Rep. and at the same time as the president of the Association of Social Care Providers. He is a member of the Governmental Council for Seniors, the Governmental Council for Addict Policy and a member of the Governmental Council for Public Administration. He is also the advisor of the minister of labor and social affairs. On the European level, he is a member of the Executive Board of the European Association EAHSA, in March 2016 he was elected president of the E.D.E. - European Association for Directors and Providers of Long-Term Care Services for the Elderly and in October 2017 he was elected vice-president of FESE – Federation of European Social Employers. Jiri Horecky has a bachelor degree in Business administration, two masters degrees in Public administration and a PhD in Economics.

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Providers of LTC in Europe – current situation and future challenges

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Long term for elderly people is undergoing crucial changes throughout Europe. We are facing a shortage of staff, we are lacking the financial resources and we are experiencing a pressure on quality raise.
We are also having an expert discussion about how the care should be provided, discussions about integrated care, about deinstitutionalization, about some specific target groups such as people living with dementia, family involvement, community services, ethical issues etc.
What is going to be the future of long term care in Europe, what are the current challenges and the overwhelming European structures and are the European countries ready for all of that?

Specialist on accounting and management of social enterprises. 30 years of experience in workshops for people with disabilities. From 2006 is The Head of payroll and fiduciary management Central purchase / vehicle fleet at Protestant foundation in Neuerkerode, Germany. Topics of interests: Care and long-term care Insurance in Germany. Development of care insurance since 1995; Employee management. Requirements for the nursing staff and the executive; Quality assurance. The „ New appraisal –Assessment” (NBA). Quality Management

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Trends in long-term care in Germany. Effects and changes in legislation and care process in Germany caused by social sciences.

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Experience-driven innovation and co-production in the mental health and substance abuse field

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How to improve services by facilitating user-driven innovation and co-production?
There is a great need to further develop services to people with mental health problems and substance abuse. But to get customized services, it's important that users participate in the development process. The very best is that service receivers are the direct driving force in development.
It is also a possibility that users take part in production of services by working as volunteers and peer workers. In Trondheim we have been working on developing models to realize such a innovation model. We have also been studying different models of how this can be organized and implemented.
However, such a development requires both a change in attitude and a paradigm shift in the occupational role of health and social workers. In The presentation will explain and reflect on what this changes causes.

Nathalie Burnay is Professor in Sociology at the University of Namur and at the University of Louvain since 2008. Her main research focuses on the evolution of social policies and changes in working conditions in a perspective of extending working life. She is the author of several publications in the field:

• SANDERSON J.P., BURNAY N., Life course and ends of career: Towards de-standardization? An analysis of the Belgian case, Journal of Population Ageing, vol 9, 1-2, 2016, pp.1-16, DOI 10.1007/s12062-016-9147-1.
• BURNAY N., HUMMEL C. (Eds), Vieillissement et classes sociales, Bern, Peter Lang, collection Population, famille et société, n°27, 2017.
• BURNAY N., HUMMEL C., VOLERY I., The Kaleidoscope of the Sociology of Aging Seen through the French-speaking Field, The American Sociologist, vol. 48, n°3-4, 342-365, 2017.

She is a member of COST Action IS1409, Gender, Health and Extended Working Life in Western Countries.
She is also a member of the Executive Board of the Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française (AISLF) since 2016 and co-director of the Research Committee on “Life Course and Ageing” of AISLF.

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Home care policies and experiences of caregivers
The Belgian situation

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Caregiving carried out by adults for other adults is increasing in Belgium, like around the world, as the demographics of many industrialized countries shift toward an older population with escalating care needs toward the end of life. Moreover, the number of caregivers from the family circle are increased and that all the more so as the low number of retirement homes and their prices lead the government to favor the maintenance of elderly people at home. Indeed, aging policies are more and more oriented towards these solutions. There are many reasons to defend this new perspective: it would cost less and would offer more guaranties for the preservation of autonomy for the elderly. However, these policies still generate support for professional and paraprofessional care teams, but also for family members, especially for women. When they still employed, they must find a balance between work and family life. This care can be a source of stress for family members caring for seniors in difficulty, but can also be a source of complicity and experience of life. We will present several research carried out in Belgium to understand these situations of care.

physician, therapy affairs deputy director in a long-term therapy and care institution in Krakow, academic teacher at Andrzej Frycz-Modrzewsk Krakow University, Poland

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Improving patient quality of life by a comprehensive and innovative long-term care program at long-term therapy and care institution in Krakow, Poland.

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In the presentation „Improving patient quality of life by a comprehensive and innovative long-term care program at long-term therapy and care institution in Krakow, Poland” the structure of Poland’s biggest long-term therapy and care institution will be shown. Besides long-term stationary medical care service the institution provides long term stationary psychiatric medical services and both stationary and outpatient palliative care service. Available on-site there is also a non-stationary (outpatient) medical care center for physiotherapy of disabled patients. The presentation will be focused on innovative therapeutic methods such as hortitherapy (therapy using plants as main stimulation means), dog therapy (therapy using dogs as stimulants of patients’ motivation), music therapy and others. So called “Cyber Eye” device will be presented (a digital, PC-based device, used for stimulation of activity of the neurologically-impaired patients). Based on own experience the presentation will also cover a subject of significance of caregivers’ education and motivation. The holistic approach to delivery of adequate service for disabled persons will also be discussed.

Professor of Sociology: "G. d'Annunzio" University - Chieti-Pescara. Over the years he has worked as a sociological researcher and lecturer in sociological theory, sociology of economic development, welfare and the elderly, planning of social and local welfare.

Research fields:
The areas of research and scientific interest are related to the following topics:

• Sociological theories
• Methods of social research
• Social change
• Migration and social policies
• Planning and social evaluation
• Economic development
• Welfare policies

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Welfare system, aging population and long-term care services in Italy

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The paper analyses the development of the Italian welfare system and focuses on the recent transformations of social and welfare needs. These changes concern the governance of the system and the forms of social and health assistance, in response to emerging needs. The aging of the population in Italy is the ambit of welfare policies with greater social impact; the aging of the population is a constantly increasing trend. The Italian local welfare system is built on the analysis of the social needs of the population and the planning of social services in the area. The planning of services for the elderly is becoming more attentive to emerging welfare needs, and welfare systems are increasingly being require to give answers even for long-term care policies.

Professor of Mathematical Methods for Economics at the University "G. d'Annunzio "of Chieti-Pescara, ex Director of the Social Sciences Department. Author of about 150 scientific papers and several books. The fundamental themes of his research include Mathematical Models for decision-making under uncertainty with applications in Architecture, in the Social Sciences, and in Teaching for the First Cycle of Education. In particular, these models are based on fuzzy sets and subjective probability.

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Fuzzy numbers, fuzzy logic and classification algorithms as an aid to sustainable care for the elderly

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Šárka HOŠKOVÁ - MAYEROVÁ Accomplished researcher and educator. Currently appointed Associate Professor of mathematics at the University of Defence of the Czech Republic. Research focus on contemporary (fuzzy) hypergroup theory. Current concentration also on mathematical modelling and statistics, mainly its aplications into social sciences and crisis management. Invited guest lecturer to universities in Italy, Romania, Lithuania, Greece, Mexico, Japan and Iran.

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Mathematical models for the analysis of social behavior of students and citizenship education

Authors: Sarka Hoskova-Mayerova¹   and   Antonio Maturo^2
1University of Defense, Brno
²University of Chieti-Pescara, Department of Architecture, Viale Pindaro n. 42, 65127 Pescara, Italy

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The first step in analyzing the social behavior of students is to understand their relationships and their attitudes. The first approaches to this study are in Moreno's works, which are based on the development of sociometric matrices. In some of our works it has been pointed out that more refined analysis tools can be obtained by exploiting some theoretical results of mathematical theories that take into account uncertainty in feelings and interpersonal communication. In this work we show how the theory of fuzzy sets and that of hyperstructures can make significant contributions both in the analysis of the degree of socialization in a group and in designing interventions to improve the aptitude for socialization and therefore to educate citizens.

Profesor Titular de Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain Departamento de Trabajo Social y Servicios Sociales
Consejero de Gobierno de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Director Grupo de Investigación PAIDI-SEJ-452 Inv. en Trabajo Social y Políticas Sociales, Director Científico Máster en Gerontología . Dirección y Gestión de Centros Gerontológicos, Director Científico Máster  La mediación: estrategias y metodologías de prevención y resolución de conflictos, II, Director Científico Máster Economía colaborativa y nuevos movimientos sociales, I Edición. 

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Time banks and active aging

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(co-authors: Alberto Sarasola Fernández. Gerontology Master Coordinator and Ana Vallejo Andrada, Mediation Master Coordinator)

 

THE MOURNING IN NURSING HOMES AND THE NURSING HOMES WORKERS PERCEPTION

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(co-authors: Ana Vallejo Andrada, Evaristo Barrera Algarin)

This research discusses the topic of mourning in the nursing home environment and the nursing homes workers perception of their own work and the element that help or disturb their work in this file. To demonstrate it we have surveyed 58 nursing home workers of different ages, from different locations and with different specialties.