Demographic change presents us as a society with various challenges. However, at the same time, it also offers us the opportunity to actively shape the future and develop innovative solutions.
To ensure the quality of life for people in need of care and their relatives providing care in the future, new approaches in counseling, support, care, and nursing are necessary. An important basis for this is the further development of the social environment in order to strengthen local structures in the long term.
The Lars and Christian Engel Foundation is implementing this idea with the model project „Agile Living in Old Age“ (ALIA) in Weiherhammer, a community in the Upper Palatinate district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab. Through innovative interconnections of social responsibility, education, and science, a generation-friendly community is being realized in a rural area. Various digital solutions are also being used for this project. Furthermore, on an area of 14,000 sqm2 This will create age- and dementia-friendly residential and commercial buildings. The local population was involved in the planning from the very beginning and is intended to actively shape life on the ALIA site in the future.
Dr. David Rester from the Lars und Christian Engel Foundation is the project manager for the ALIA model project in Weiherhammer. In the webinar, using the ALIA project as an example, he presented various ways in which community-oriented care for people with dementia can be successful.
Here is the webinar as a PDF for Download
Tuesday, 05/03/2022, 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Florian Weidinger
ModerationResearch Associate M. Sc.
Anne Keefer
Chatroom SupportResearch Associate, M.Sc.
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