Sorgende Gemeinschaft

The project is of groundbreaking importance for the further development of care and support in the Ems Dollart region. Together with the partners, the aim is to develop and test cooperation models between village communities, local authorities, professional care providers and families at four pilot sites so that this model can be rolled out across the region. The caring community empowers local people and, with the support of the respective municipality, provides them with a strong framework for this task. The pilot municipalities are pursuing different approaches, which need to be brought into dialogue with each other in order to record and utilise their respective experiences. The diversity of the villages, the different “care systems” and approaches makes the project forward-looking – with the aim of securing the future of our multi-diverse society on both the Dutch and German sides through value-adding cooperation. The connection and comparative analysis will result in guidelines for the region-wide establishment of “caring communities”. The core idea is that all individual approaches – moderated by communicative and scientific support – are combined to create a single guideline or model for designing a caring community that takes into account nursing, medical, community-based and natural aspects. The cross-border nature and multidisciplinary perspective create a knowledge base and facilitate the participatory and sustainable dissemination of the caring community. The aim is to think more flexibly and openly through exchange with others, which will benefit all parties in many areas of life in the long term and enable us to jointly contribute to the sustainability of the healthcare landscape in both countries.