12 VIDEO COMMUNICATION FOR THE ELDERLY LIVING AT THE COUNTRYSIDE

For lonely or care-needing elderly on the countryside, this project aims to:

allow the monitoring of the home situation by means of modern technology;
reactivate social interactions by calling in volunteers who contact the elderly on a regular basis, by means of video communication;
make them feel more safe.

The selected target group will dispose of a high-tech device: the video telephone (video communication).

Initiator: CM Leuven

LEADER subsidy: € 59.447,75

Contact: Bert Van der Stappen - bert.vanderstappen@cm.be en An.Vandersmissen@cm.be - 016/359 505

Duration: 2009-2011