EMPOWERMENT OF
VULNERABLE PEOPLE
An integrated project
CIPES Piemonte
Confederazione Italiana per la Promozione della Salute e l’Educazione 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
CIPES Piemonte
Confederazione Italiana per la Promozione della Salute e l’Educazione 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
CIPES Piemonte
Confederazione Italiana per la Promozione della Salute e l’Educazione Sanitaria
The piedmont branch
of the Italian
confederation for
health promotion and
education (CIPES)
decided to tackle this
problem in an
integrated way
CIPES Piemonte
Confederazione Italiana per la Promozione della Salute e l’Educazione Sanitaria
Very often old
People need help
for their everyday
life
CIPES Piemonte
Confederazione Italiana per la Promozione della Salute e l’Educazione 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.
CIPES Piemonte
Confederazione Italiana per la Promozione della Salute e l’Educazione Sanitaria
Moreover old people
homes are quite
expensive and often
local welfare trusts must
cover the fees, thus
putting a burden on the
society
CIPES Piemonte
Confederazione Italiana per la Promozione della Salute e l’Educazione Sanitaria
An alternative efficient
solution would be
offering them adeguate
care at home by means
of well trained women
CIPES Piemonte
Confederazione Italiana per la Promozione della Salute e l’Educazione Sanitaria
Many migrant women
from eastern Europe
seek occupation in the
field of old people care
lacking formation for any
type of work
CIPES Piemonte
Confederazione Italiana per la Promozione della Salute e l’Educazione 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
CIPES Piemonte
Confederazione Italiana per la Promozione della Salute e l’Educazione 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
CIPES Piemonte
Confederazione Italiana per la Promozione della Salute e l’Educazione Sanitaria
Migrant women are
offered a free 200 hour
course of training in old
people care
CIPES Piemonte
Confederazione Italiana per la Promozione della Salute e l’Educazione Sanitaria
Additional financial
resources can be
supplied by local
welfare and health
trusts
CIPES Piemonte
Confederazione Italiana per la Promozione della Salute e l’Educazione 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
CIPES Piemonte
Confederazione Italiana per la Promozione della Salute e l’Educazione 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
CIPES Piemonte
Confederazione Italiana per la Promozione della Salute e l’Educazione Sanitaria
Special agencies will
put into contact
families that need
qualified care for their
elderly non self
sufficient relatives and
Licensed migrant
women
CIPES Piemonte
Confederazione Italiana per la Promozione della Salute e l’Educazione 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
CIPES Piemonte
Confederazione Italiana per la Promozione della Salute e l’Educazione 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