The newsletter provides updates on several projects related to developing digital competencies for elderly care recipients and their care workers. It announces that a map of common and specific digital competences for care workers and elderly individuals over 65 is now available. It also discusses projects focusing on enabling elderly individuals' use of ICT; presenting CareNET at a workshop to spark collaborations; using medical tablets to improve care workers' jobs; guidelines for choosing suitable mobile phones for the elderly; and co-designing ICT concepts with older people.

1. Project Newsletter – Issue 1
Digital competences’ map for care workers and older
people
The careNET consortium is happy to announce that based on a careful analysis, the
Map of domains for common and specific digital competences for domiciliary care
workers and care recipients aged 65+ years is now publicly available. The result of an
analysis and description is to be published after collaborative exercises in the
development process in two workshops, respectively outlining the methodological
bottom up approach in relation to study the common and specific competences for the
two target groups and elaborating on the map of domains of competence working with
grouping and wording of the areas of competences.
Read details here.
Care to Care – Enabling elderly peoples’ use of ICT
In careNET, we focus on social inclusion through the development of ICT (Information
and Communication Technologies) competences for care recipients above the age of
65 years in long term domiciliary care and care workers. Care workers’ care for
elderly people goes beyond helping with cleaning, cooking and other daily tasks. Care
workers need their vocational competences to be developed, competences in relation
to enabling care recipients use ICT.
Read more here.
CareNET at the Synergy Workshop
One of the great assets in the CareNET project that while it’s focus is specific, the
results and the methodology used is highly interesting for other organisations and
collaborations in the vocational training world or digital competence development in
care. To ignite synergies and collaborations and exchange experiences, the project was
recently presented at EDEN’s SYNERGY Workshop in October in Budapest.
Find out about the event and its publications here.
Medical tablets in the service of care workers
Mobile technologies have been proved as a useful tool in the hands of care workers
and care recipients since they are used in a variety of tasks related to health care
issues. Mobile devices can especially improve effectively the professional life of care
workers and make data more accessible. A recent survey of health care professionals
and administrators has shown that 60% have used their tablet at work for at least one
year, 28% for two years and 7% for three years. It is also notable that many hospitals
and clinics are purchasing tablets for their workers. The question is how care workers
use tablets in their work?
Find out more here.
How to choose a good mobile phone for the elderly?
The use of mobile phone may pose problems for the elderly, but also can, significantly,
improve their quality of life. Therefore “Fundación Alzheimer España” conducted a
study that provides some indications that may help to choose the most suitable mobile

2. phone for seniors. The mobile phone, according to their study, offers important
advantages for the elderly such as:
the ability to automatically call someone if they have a problem;
the safety that the mobile transmits to them when they are moving alone;
the feeling of being safe if they are alone.
Read more on the important aspects here.
Co-designing ICT concepts with older people: a legacy
of the Sus-IT project
The Sus-IT project ran from 2009 until 2012 with the aim of helping older people to use
information technologies for a better and more independent future. During the life of the
project, the barriers to the sustained and effective use of ICTs by older people were
investigated and a range of solutions that combined both technology and social context
were explored.
Read details here.