Learning dialogue between the Netherlands and Turkey on elderly care
Kennisland and the Turkish Güven Foundation have initiated a learning dialogue between the Netherlands and Turkey on how our societies should deal with our ageing populations and the resulting pressures on the care system. The objective is to collect lessons, ideas and routes towards possible solutions for pressing issues from another cultural perspective, while also promoting international collaboration.
- KL'ers involved
- Iselien Nabben in@kl.nl
“A Common Challenge – two different cultural perspectives” is a partnership between Kennisland and the Güven Education Health Organization in Ankara. This civil society dialogue++Civil society dialogueSince 2008, projects have taken place in which civil society organisations in Turkey and the Netherlands exchange knowledge and experiences. The objective is to establish a long-term dialogue between the two countries. Read more is facilitated by the European Union and the Turkish Ministry of European Affairs. The objective of the dialogue is to learn from our respective approaches to elderly care. It covers three topics: nursing care, home care and informal care. Questions to be considered:
- How have the two countries organised long-term care?
- What are their respective cultural backgrounds and perspectives on growing old and the associated care needs?
- What impact do these have on formal and informal care tasks?
- How do families and other loved ones contribute to elderly care?
- What can we learnFor this dialogue, we will bring together elderly care professionals and experts from both countries. about issues such as caring for elderly people with a migration background?
- What can Turkey learn from how the Netherlands is dealing with the increasing number of people with dementia?
What we will do
For this dialogue, we will bring together elderly care professionals and experts from both countries. They will join three learning/working groups based around the three topics. In these groups, we will work together to identify the pressing issues and what we wish to learn from one another.
We will collect stories from the immediate environments and contexts of the working group participants.We will collect stories from the immediate environments and contexts of the working group participants. Kennisland will analyse and contextualise these stories and the responses to them and present them in an attractive form for publication. Study trips will also be made to Ankara and Amsterdam to gain a greater understanding of our respective contexts and to reflect on the experiences and challenges in both countries.
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- KL'ers involved
- Iselien Nabben in@kl.nl
