From using technology creatively to giving children a leadership role in preventive care, these innovations in Health Care are improving the lives and longevity of people around the world. These three projects were chosen as standout solutions by our expert judges and the Changemakers community.
Instant Birth Control
With the provocative ad campaign tag line, “No stirrups. No clinic. No hassle,” Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette (PPCW) became the first family planning provider in the US to offer access to birth control pills online. Interested women fill out a questionnaire online, which is reviewed by a nurse or nurse practitioner. If approved, the patient is sent a two-months’ supply of contraception in the mail. Follow up online care is required to continue the prescription.
No more long waits in busy offices, missing school or work, traveling great distances or facing the judgment of providers or pharmacists, to exercise a basic choice regarding reproductive health. For this innovation, the program was a winner of the Disruptive Innovations in Health and Health Care: Solutions People Want competition, sponsored by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Child Promoters of Oral Health
The Fundación BOCA SANA (Healthy Mouth Foundation) puts Venezuelan school children at the center of their own and their fellow students’ dental care by training them as scholar promoters of oral health. At 180 preschools and elementary schools throughout the country, 700 children have learned preventive dentistry – a health care routine that is easy for children to carry out on their own and which gives them and and their classmates a welcome responsible role in their own health that they bring home to their adult family members and carry with them throughout their lives.
This innovation was a winner of the Designing for Better Health competition, sponsored by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Better Health for Rural Communities
Getting medical treatment to those with complex health problems in rural communities is made much easier with the innovation of ECHO in New Mexico, US. This organization was a winner of the Disruptive Innovations In Health And Health Care: Solutions People Want competition, sponsored by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Using teleconferencing and videoconferencing; Internet-based assessment tools; online presentations; and telephone, fax, and e-mail communications, ECHO helps connect specialists with primary care providers in rural areas to promote the use of identified best practices and keep rural residents healthier.
Also check out Rethinking Mental Health: Improving Community Wellbeing; Improved Nutrition: Solutions Through Innovation; and the winners of the How to Improve Health for All competition for additional successful innovations in Health Care.
Access to basic healthcare is a very big challenge in Rural India, and globally. 70% Indians live in villages, but 74% Doctors are in the urban areas. Attempts to take doctors to the rural areas have repeatedly failed. People are mostly treated by un/semi-qualified personnel. Those who can afford private healthcare have to spend much more than their urban counterparts. Diseases are detected late. Tens of millions of people get pushed below the poverty line annually because of healthcare expenditures alone!
Swasth India is a social business working towards improving the health of low-income segments in urban and rural India.
Our Mission is “To ensure access to affordable and quality health services to 10 million low-income people by 2018.
Forus Health as the name stands for means Affordable health "For us". Our vision is to provide affordable technology solutions including new products that address India's unique health care delivery needs. Forus products and solutions are centered on the premise of enabling preventive screening even in remote villages and serviced by minimally trained field worker.
Our flagship innovation is 3nethra- An intelligent pre-screening ophthalmic solution that can identify common eye problems that is reason for 90% avoidable blindness in India.
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Tiyatien Health, a winner in the Rethinking Mental Health competition, is treating the effects of decades of brutal war in Liberia by training non-doctor health workers and clinicians to work directly with citizens of one of the poorest countries on Earth. The founders are survivors of Liberia's civil war and people living with HIV/AIDS.
Tiyatien Health trained the first non-physicians to administer anti-retroviral therapy in Liberia,and provided the first-ever HIV/AIDS treatments in southeastern Liberia, the poorest corner of the country. Now it is expanding beyond providing public HIV/AIDS treatment to rural communities by working to reverse decades of untreated depression and epilepsy.
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This innovation also has a Project Page where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Project: THE VIBANDA PROJECT.
Created on 06/18/2013 by Mugambi Neville
The Vibanda Project is an innovative team lead project that will seek to improve the face of East Africa cities local food joints. the "vibandas" have been in operation since the beginning of Nairobi Town in the late 1980's. It is a high time they join the class of Kenyan Matatu's.
Organization: AIESEC KENYA
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The Vibanda Project is an innovative team lead project that will seek to improve the face of East Africa cities local food joints. the "vibandas" have been in operation since the beginning of Nairobi Town in the late 1980's. It is a high time they join the class of Kenyan Matatu's.
Problem
The city of Nairobi is filled with informal structures that serve as food stalls/hotels. They serve a serious population of estimated 4 million daily. There customer have a high demand for local delicacies. But they have to bear with the semi permanent shacks called "Vibandas". These is our culture, we found these structures here but that doesn't mean we cannot improve there efficiency to suit the Food market.
Solution
To design and produce prototype mobile vibandas that incorporate our African culture. To be sold to new vibanda developers.
Example
The main objective of the project is involved in designing affordable mobile food kiosk's (VIBANDAS). The products will be available for hire In East Africa's Major cities. The kiosks will create employement to the youth. example.
In Nairobi city, there will be 100 vibandas available daily for business. This will employ 200 youths who will be involved in the realization of the vibanda culture. each youth earning at least KES 200 per day. The duties involve vibanda deliveries .eg water,supplies and waste management.
Impact
If the business model is realised. Then, the youth will contribute to the growth of the sector and the economy. the Vibandas will improve the tourism and culture of the East African cities. The impact will be more like that of the "Taiwan Night Markets"
Marketplace
Right now in Kenya, no one else is providing the service we are proposing.This is a nitch market that enterprenuers are beginning to exploit. The city councils and County councils are willing to partner with us in realising this project. The mobile kiosks that exist in the country are imports and countable at the moment and are into fast foods.
Sustainability Plan
The food business, is one that has existed for centuries. The service we get when we buy food is what set us apart. The Vibandas will most definitely have a lasting impression to the local and international tourist who come to the East African cities. The designs enable the vendors to maintain HYGIENE AND PROPER WASTE MANAGEMENT. There is little that the project can do to influence the nutrition as a product company thus a TV show in future.
Founding Story
The pressing need to bring sanity in food businesses set up in Kenya's cities. The food shacks serve majority of the city dwellers who cannot afford to eat in restaurants or hotels during lunch hour. There needs to be some regulation, but as at now, there is none. they are informal business structures that make upto 150,000 thousand shillings in revenue per month.
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Human wellness and vitality.
If you had greater capacity, which additional sectors would you like your solution to target - either through expansion, partnership, or thought exchange?
Healthy environments, Nutrient-rich farming, Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
By putting this informal "Vibanda" sector out to the world. The customers will be aware about where they eat and buy their food. This awareness will be exclusively be brought to light in the podcast( JIBONDE FRESH SHOW) that we are currently working on .
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People need appropriate nutrients to grow, learn, and fight off disease. How do you measure, track, or make use of information about nutrient levels in your own work?
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Considering the flow of nutrients from ecosystems to soil to farms to food to communities, what are the barriers to achieving vitality for people and the planet?
Other barriers you have identified
In your view, what developments need to happen in order to help overcome those barriers and produce a more nutrient rich and vital public and planet?
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GIY HQ is a globally replicable model for sustainable food production & urban agriculture being co-created by GIY, Waterford City Council and other partners. It will be a centre of excellence for homegrown and local food, a training centre, farm shop, cafe and urban food garden.
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Iron Arm is a light (400g) and ergonomic (smartglove) soft robotics device combining intention detection sensors and mechatronic actuators that can be used to support the hand function of elderly users in activities of daily life and occupational tasks, as well as collect data on their physical activities, allowing them to receive better treatment to maintain muscle strength and increase their life expectancy, and helping them to recover faster from injuries or other hand mobility impairing diseases.
Elderly living at home, often use a personal alarm: when the person is in danger (f.e. he has fallen), he can push a button which will generate an alarm to an alarm centre. Volunteers living nearby (family, neighbours…) can be called by the operators to go and take a look and offer help.
These days an important part of the elderly population is finding it hard to find these volunteers: their relatives don’t live nearby or they don’t have any family.
This innovation also has a Project Page where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Project: Old Age Friend.
Created on 06/15/2013 by MahaManas
We have made an effective tonic medicine which is very helpful for aged persons. It is a special combination of alternative medicines.
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MahaPathy Treatment Center
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More than 5 years
Please provide a short description of the main implementer.
Sumeru Ray is a well experienced Doctor of Alternative Medicines (MD) and very successful practitioner and researcher in Alternative treatments for the last 35 years.. He has very powerful and time tested treatment procedures for your problems/diseases. Physical or Mental problem howbeit, if you became unsuccessful after so many medical treatments, then his Universal Treatment is right for you.
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How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? What competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
Dayamoyee Mondal is associate doctor (Alternative medicine) of our team. She helps us in all respects.
How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? Which competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? Which competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? Which competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
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We have made an effective tonic medicine which is very helpful for aged persons. It is a special combination of alternative medicines.
Which of these fields of Active and Healthy Ageing are addressed by your initiative?
Personalized health management, Prevention and early diagnosis of functional and cognitive decline, Integrated care for chronic conditions, Assisted daily living, Independent living solutions, Age friendly buildings, environments, and communities.
If none of the above, answer here:
Please describe and explain the problem your initiative is trying to solve.
Destruction, being spent beyond one’s production of bodily essential things, gradually exhaustion and incapability of bodily system is the main problem of old age.
Please describe and explain the solution your initiative is implementing. What is innovative about your solution? What distinguishes your solution from other existing approaches to the problem?
This medicine is able to restore to health and vigor partly and able to solve many problems of old age. To gain more benefit, one needs to practice Yoga-Seep and Pranayam (breathing exercise) regularly with this medicine. I have an audio CD of Yoga-Sleep –produced by me; it is created in Bengali language. In need, it can be translated in any language.
Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
It is tested many times and it gives excellent result in all cases. It has no side effect. It is a special combination of Homeopathic, Herbal and Biochemic medicines. One dose twice a month is enough for better being. If there is no fatal/chronic/severe problem or disease, this medicine (with Yoga procedures) is very helpful for aged persons.
Besides these, to solve old age problems it needs nutritious food/drink for daily use. For it, please visit our ChangeShop (http://www.changemakers.com/changeshop/nrg-excellent-nutritious-fooddrin...).
Please describe if and how your stakeholders (cooperation partners, funders, users, etc.) have been participating in defining the problem and developing the solution.
My associated doctors and partners have tested this medicine and in their circle.
Has your solution been tested in trials, experimentations, or pilot projects? If yes, please describe the process and outcome.
Besides my practice, my associated doctors and partners have tested this medicine and in their circle and get good result.
How long has your solution been in operation?
for more than 5 years
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Growth (your pilot is up and running, and starting to expand)
Please select the relationship between your solution and related solutions currently established in our society. Is your solution…
adaptive (your solution builds on existing solutions and is improving them without radically changing them)
Please try to identify and describe competing solutions implemented by other organizations addressing the same problem as you are. What challenges do these competing solutions pose to your success or growth?
In my area I don’t know any organization which is thinking in this field.
What barriers might hinder the success of your initiative? How do you plan to overcome them?
Want of money and want of likeminded honest people is the main barrier. We are trying to overcome it.
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What are the specific professional backgrounds and competencies your team brings to the initiative?
We have four experienced doctors (alternative medicines) in our team.
Please describe your management or coordination structure in the initiative.
Please provide the total yearly budget in Euro that your initiative spends on implementing the solution.
European Union public funding
Economic return from own products/services
Foundations and philanthropy capital
Single donations from private individuals
Donations from private companies
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Please estimate the number of persons within your target group (users, clients, etc.) that you currently reach directly with your solution.
In which local/regional/national area(s) is the solution currently implemented?
What is the impact on your target group (users, clients) you want to generate?
What is the wider impact on society you want to generate?
What are the impacts on your target group you already achieved?
How has the impact of your initiative been assessed?
Experience-based self-assessment (you assessed the impacts based on your experiences with the target group), Feedback-based self-assessment (you assessed the impacts based on feedback from the target group without using specific methods).
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Activity report, Working method and 'theory of change'.
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What are your milestones for further developing, implementing, and establishing your initiative in the next three years? Please describe 1-3 milestones.
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Created on 06/14/2013 by Hakisa
Hakisa.com is a free intergenerational mediation platform allowing users challenged by the digital divide to benefit from the advantages of the WWW.
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Hakisa.com - We bridge generations
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1‐5 years
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Hakisa.com is an innovative cloud based solution for the Silver Economy reinforcing an essential component of well aging : the social link. Hakisa.com is free for the Silver Surfers and their relatives. The platform also offers for a very low monthly fee an open interface and a market place for medical and social professionals through premium and branded accounts. Hakisa.com aims at narrowing intergenerational and digital divide related to usability through web solidarity, private social network and embedded mediation functionalities and open interfaces to social and care services.
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Type
Social enterprise (partly economically self-sustained through market products and services, primary mission is to solve a social problem)
How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? What competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
ABRAPA has all necessary medical and social caregiver competencies in addition to human resources on the ground to help us build a complete digital social link solution. Hakisa brings to the table its Cloud Computing, Social Networks and Digital Mediation expertise.
How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? Which competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
ENTELA adds to the ABRAPA/HAKISA partnership the competence of Home Automation and specific E-HealthSW/HW application needed for prolonging autonomy and home stay.
How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? Which competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? Which competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
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Hakisa.com is a free intergenerational mediation platform allowing users challenged by the digital divide to benefit from the advantages of the WWW.
Which of these fields of Active and Healthy Ageing are addressed by your initiative?
Health literacy and patient empowerment, Personalized health management, Assisted daily living, Independent living solutions, Social inclusion (intergenerational practice, work and volunteering), Age friendly buildings, environments, and communities.
If none of the above, answer here:
Please describe and explain the problem your initiative is trying to solve.
In a world where IT skills are getting more and more important in our daily lives, seniors face an important usability digital divide due to the complexity of the internet and the constant evolution of digital content and services. Also, compared to younger generations, the perception of a technical and financial exclusion from the digital world is permanent and real.
The recent evolution of demographic change and its consequences (well ageing, loss of autonomy, loss of mobility ...) is one of the greatest challenges of modern societies.
As the social link plays a crucial role for the senior's quality of life and well ageing, Hakisa wants to simplify the usage of the internet and create a digital link between seniors, their relatives and the home and health care service providers, in order to stay autonomous and live well at home as long as possible. It is proven that an active social link reduces exposure to health and autonomy issues for seniors and therefore contributes to lower the economic and social impact for ageing societies.
With its easy to use and free mediation platform, Hakisa offers a digital exchange space while promoting emotional and social interactions, needed for the well being and care of the elderly.
Please describe and explain the solution your initiative is implementing. What is innovative about your solution? What distinguishes your solution from other existing approaches to the problem?
One of the main innovations of the Hakisa solution lays in the Musher concept, which is an intergenerational trusted web solidarity solution available for all connected users. The Hakisa solution is based on a trustful and very human relationship allowing all family members, care givers and professionals to digitally better care for the seniors, improving their autonomy, social integration and well-being while aging. The Mushers will have different roles like IT support, community manager, e-health or home care coach…
With its future services for professionals (shared calendar for appointments, virtual activity notes for home care interventions, centralized and organized social documentation, etc.) Hakisa is not only connecting seniors with the younger generations, but also offers services allowing the senior to age well at home or in an assisted living environment.
Conceptualizing social goods through a virtual toolbox with universal design features, so that caregivers and family members can simply and efficiently support a challenged user, establishes a never seen digital and social link.
Up to now, various solutions connecting the elderly have already been proposed. Nevertheless, these solutions are often only facing one concrete problem and do all have a point in common: relative high costs. As the majority of those solutions are very specific and often available as hardware devices, they are difficult to maintain up to date and may not serve all the senior's needs.
Therefore, to meet all the legitimate expectations, the various services of Hakisa are completely free and without any commitment for the users. The fully cloud-based Hakisa solution is automatically up to date and available on all connected devices. Indeed, besides facilitating the use of the internet for seniors, Hakisa establishes a social link with family and friends, provides a space for community activities and community management. Hakisa also offers a new way for caregivers and health care providers to stay directly in touch and serves seniors and family members for a very minimum fee. Thus, Hakisa innovates and offers never seen solutions and opportunities for our modern society.
Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
Grandma Jane is 80 old and a novice internet user. Thanks to Hakisas easy to use platform she can now easily keep in touch with her relatives and friends, caregivers, local actors and even shop online. Besides getting the news of her city and the weather forecast, Jane discovers new websites according to her interests, shares her passions with other members of the community and plays different games to keep her brain fit.
Her Mushers already customized her account at a distance. They added all contacts and created buttons for websites that Jane finds interesting. Thanks to Hakisas Facebook application, Janes Mushers can easily stay in touch with her and other relatives. Furthermore they are playing the role of the family community manager and are at present organizing the next big family event with Hakisa.
Together with her caregivers, Jane's family set up a shared calendar showing the activities of the day. As her caregivers are regularly updating the Hakisa space, certain family members are notified and know that everything is going on well. What's more Jane's Backgammon club opened a free member space on Hakisa. Therefore she can even communicate with the members of the club.
Please describe if and how your stakeholders (cooperation partners, funders, users, etc.) have been participating in defining the problem and developing the solution.
Hakisa has already established several cooperations. Hakisa got the JEI status (young and innovative enterprise) and is certified by FCPI and Oséo (public-sector institutions dedicated to economic development). Oséo supports the project with 120,000 €, the region Alsace with 44,000 € and Réseau Alsace Entreprendre with 40,000€.
Besides a partnership with a rural telephone company called Tubéo, Hakisa also established an important cooperation with a regional home and health care provider, called Abrapa.
Since the beginning of its social laboratory Hakisa cooperates with the city of Strasbourg, the city of Haguenau, the region Alsace, the Conseil General and Unis-Cité. Our partners such as Semia (Alsatian incubator), ADEC (association of the development of ICTs), Rhénatic (Alsatian ICT cluster), the Alsatian Chamber of Industry and Commerce. They also support Hakisa in development and the search for financial partners.
Has your solution been tested in trials, experimentations, or pilot projects? If yes, please describe the process and outcome.
The beta version of the Hakisa platform was opened to public in October 2012. A social laboratory among 2000 users living in the region around Strasbourg was opened to collect first impressions and feedback. Today, we focus on experimentation with professionals like ABRAPA in Alsace or Inter Mutuel Assistance in France.
At the beginning of 2013 Hakisa was officially launched. Up to now Hakisa already counts 15.000 users and is already available in French, English and German
Thanks to user feedback, the different services provided by Hakisa are in constant evolution and adapted to the needs of the users. Additional services allowing to better care for a loved one are in development.
Hakisa also benefits from a cooperation with the French laboratory "Lutin" which is specialized in cognitive sciences and ergonomics
How long has your solution been in operation?
for 1‐5 years
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Start-Up (a pilot that has just begun operating)
Please select the relationship between your solution and related solutions currently established in our society. Is your solution…
complementary (your solution is complementing existing solutions and compensating their weaknesses while not intending to substitute them)
Please try to identify and describe competing solutions implemented by other organizations addressing the same problem as you are. What challenges do these competing solutions pose to your success or growth?
Hakisas approach to bridge the digital divide is different from all other existing solutions.
All services and hardware devices from other competitors are based on a pay model. To the cost of the hardware often comes a monthly subscription fee. Hardware devices are sold by already established companies benefiting from their marked awareness. Having high incomes with the sale of each device and their monthly subscription fees, our competitors can easily invest in marketing operations allowing them to gain in visibility.
As Hakisa is considered as a market place and consumer mediation platform, it needs to be marketed through social networks and other digital medias versus hardware and software solutions that are sold directly to administrations and service providers.
What barriers might hinder the success of your initiative? How do you plan to overcome them?
The main challenge resides in the communication and market awareness. The Hakisa solution needs to be pushed through the social networks and consumer market medias.
Also, signing up business partners and brands will require business development efforts with local presence in order to replicate and expand. Even if they have an existing customer base, the social partners like professionals, associations and institutions will require business development efforts and country presence.
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2 co-founders | 4 fulltime employees: 3 programmers, 1 marketing manager | 3 Trainees
Volunteers
We cooperate with medico-social partners and associations. Also all Mushers can be considered as volunteers.
External advisers and experts
Hakisa is in contact with several advisers and experts.
What are the specific professional backgrounds and competencies your team brings to the initiative?
Eric Gehl and Olivier Audouze, the two co-founders of Hakisa have already launched and contributed to the international success of various mediation platforms. Eric Gehl worked for 18 years as an executive manager in the digital media, software and telecommunication industry. Olivier Audouze has 21 years of experience in the software and telecommunication industry, with an expertise in product marketing for software and the execution of strategies increasing market shares. Developing the Hakisa solution, this expert know-how is now applied to solve the problem of the usability digital divide.
Please describe your management or coordination structure in the initiative.
The Hakisa Team is working with the agile software development framework method scrum with 2 week sprints. Composed of marketing and resource and development specialists the Hakisa mediation platform is newly released every 14 days. The two co-founders bring their sales and business development competence and experience which are required in the target and silver economy market.
Please provide the total yearly budget in Euro that your initiative spends on implementing the solution.
Founded in 2011 with a capital of 50.000 €, the founders raised a budget of 200.000 € in order to implement the solution.
European Union public funding
Economic return from own products/services
Foundations and philanthropy capital
Single donations from private individuals
Donations from private companies
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The target groups are primarily seniors, their helpers, their local associations and their families who have access to the internet. As digital service and contents impact increasingly our lifestyle, the victims of digital divide are actually excluded from numerous online opportunities and activities. Not being in the mainstream of internet users is becoming a true social divide and a challenge in today's economies. The targeted group is also a challenge for businesses, administrations and institutions as not accessible digitally.
Please estimate the number of persons within your target group (users, clients, etc.) that you currently reach directly with your solution.
Hakisa targets a market of 70 000 000 senior users in developed countries and will help millions of people to connect digitally.
In which local/regional/national area(s) is the solution currently implemented?
Today, the platform is already available in French, German and English, all other European languages will follow as we expand.
What is the impact on your target group (users, clients) you want to generate?
Almost all economies are increasingly becoming depended on digital services which might not be a challenge for Net Geners but will certainly be for non-internet users. Hakisa.com will help millions of people to stay in the digital evolution race and will give them access to all opportunities the internet offers. A greater component of the social link will be increasingly digital in the future.
What is the wider impact on society you want to generate?
Connecting seniors and their families with professionals from different service sectors (e.g. e-health and e-commerce), Hakisa.com is pioneer in offering a cost effective user friendly and fun solution to tackle the recent evolution of demographic change and its consequences.
What are the impacts on your target group you already achieved?
After just a few months, Hakisa counts already 15.000 users benefiting from the different services that are already available on the platform.
How has the impact of your initiative been assessed?
Experience-based self-assessment (you assessed the impacts based on your experiences with the target group), Feedback-based self-assessment (you assessed the impacts based on feedback from the target group without using specific methods), Self-evaluation (you used qualitative and/or quantitative methods to assess impacts), External evaluation of impacts based on qualitative methods (interviews, focus groups, etc.).
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Mission and strategy, Organisational structure, Information on team members, Working method and 'theory of change'.
Please indicate webpage or contact for obtaining the respective information.
What are your milestones for further developing, implementing, and establishing your initiative in the next three years? Please describe 1-3 milestones.
Our goal is to improve the life of as many seniors and their families as possible. After a national and west European roll-out, the Hakisa platform will be available worldwide in 2015 with most languages of developed countries and in a position to serve potentially near 400 million users.
Hakisa.com is an innovative cloud based solution reinforcing an essential component of well aging : the social link. Hakisa.com is free for the Silver Surfers and their relatives. The platform also offers an open interface and a market place for medical and social professionals. Hakisa.com aims at narrowing intergenerational and digital divide related to usability through web solidarity, private social network and embedded mediation functionalities and open interfaces to social and care services.
The Vibanda Project is an innovative team lead project that will seek to improve the face of East Africa cities local food joints. the "vibandas" have been in operation since the beginning of Nairobi Town in the late 1980's. It is a high time they join the class of Kenyan Matatu's.
Every year 1.8 million children under the age of five die from respiratory distress. Project Shwas offers a low-cost wireless sensor patch that measures the quality of breathing from sleep. With this system, parents will be alerted of potentially life-threatening breathing problems early on.
Created on 06/13/2013 by adelebal
The project is aimed at home injuries prevention in elderly people reached through peer to peer communication
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How long has the main implementer been operating?
1‐5 years
Please provide a short description of the main implementer.
The project is coordinated by Publich health service of the regional government of Emilia-Romagna (Italy). Other focal partners are Local Health Authorities (training and coordinatio), Local social services of the Municipalities in which the project is implemented and local voluntary associations.
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How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? What competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
The project is coordinated by Publich health service of the regional government of Emilia-Romagna (Italy). Other focal partners are Local Health Authorities (training and coordinatio), Local social services of the Municipalities in which the project is implemented and local voluntary associations.
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Municipalities - Social services
How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? Which competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
The project is coordinated by Publich health service of the regional government of Emilia-Romagna (Italy). Other focal partners are Local Health Authorities (training and coordinatio), Local social services of the Municipalities in which the project is implemented and local voluntary associations.
How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? Which competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
The project is coordinated by Publich health service of the regional government of Emilia-Romagna (Italy). Other focal partners are Local Health Authorities (training and coordinatio), Local social services of the Municipalities in which the project is implemented and local voluntary associations.
How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? Which competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
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Elders learning from elders. Risk prevention at home.
Describe your initiative
The project is aimed at home injuries prevention in elderly people reached through peer to peer communication
Which of these fields of Active and Healthy Ageing are addressed by your initiative?
Health literacy and patient empowerment, Social inclusion (intergenerational practice, work and volunteering).
If none of the above, answer here:
Please describe and explain the problem your initiative is trying to solve.
The total of older people (60 years and plus) that have to be treated for an injury in EU hospitals is estimated to be 6.7 million each year (EU IDB estimates), the half of those incurr at home. The burden of treatment and care is tremendous (for societies and familiy). Furthermore, there is an inadequate perception of the problem and it's very difficult to reach elderly people and incourage them to change risky behaviour in their everyday life
Please describe and explain the solution your initiative is implementing. What is innovative about your solution? What distinguishes your solution from other existing approaches to the problem?
The solution in based on the evidence of high efficacy of prevention intervention in which: information are provided at home, through direct observation of the critical elements; the information is provided by an authoritative source of information in the peer group (this in particular true for elderly people). The solution proposed has the main object to reach elderly in their homes and provide them information about home injuries. As ad additional spillover the intervention is made in partnership with local social and health services (with a regional coordination) through the enhancement/empowerment of local voluntary associations of elderly people.
Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
Elda is 78 and spends most of her time at home. She lives alone, quite isolated from other people. She is not followed by social services, since she is in good health. Her house is small but full of objects and potential dangers too. However she is too used to it and she doesn’t seem to “see” any potential risk for her. Her neighbour, Livia, is committed with a local voluntary association that joined the project of home injuries prevention. She has beed trained by local health authority professionals and now she is able to identify structural elements and behaviour of potential risk at home. She proposes a structured visit to Elda and she accepts: afterall Elda is well known and she is happy to welcome her for the visit. In this way Elda has now new elements and tools to understand if some of her behaviours are at potential risks and Livia too is more skilled in detecting home risks, so that she can put in practice this knowledge in other home accesses and even in her sister's, friend's and daughter's home as well. Local associations are now strategical partners of the public health prevention programme and the community is grateful for their support.
Please describe if and how your stakeholders (cooperation partners, funders, users, etc.) have been participating in defining the problem and developing the solution.
The cooperation parners (pubilc bodies and elder voluntaries) are of crucial importance in the definition of the ways thorugh wich reach the elderly people, how to better communicate with them. Local public bodies helps in identiying associations and voulntaries that are more interested in the project, how to involve them in the plan. The feedback provided by vountary elderly people who perform the home accesses are crucial in the re-definition of the process, how to contact other elderlies, how was the proposal welcomed, how can be the whole process better improved.
Has your solution been tested in trials, experimentations, or pilot projects? If yes, please describe the process and outcome.
The project has been tested in serveral small villages Emilia-Romagna region (10/15.000 inhabitants), through years 2009-2012. It was very successfull in those context in which there was high level of local integration between social services and voluntary associations. Volutaries trained vere enthusiastic in being helpful for local community and elderly who received the visits were pleased to host known "opinion leaders" of the local community and feel that the municipalty and association were there for them. As positive result, this project has been demonstrated to be effective in pushing toward changes in attitudes and structural elements of risk. In addition to this, the project empowers local communities, involving local associations and elders in health promotion. As positive spillovers, even local activites reported an increase in sales of items related to home safety.
How long has your solution been in operation?
for 1‐5 years
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Growth (your pilot is up and running, and starting to expand)
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complementary (your solution is complementing existing solutions and compensating their weaknesses while not intending to substitute them)
Please try to identify and describe competing solutions implemented by other organizations addressing the same problem as you are. What challenges do these competing solutions pose to your success or growth?
Public administrations and private enterprises in the industry of home apparels for risk reduction are facing home injuries problem. Low levels of awareness of the problem in elderly people limits the demand for interventions and items connecet to the problem. The innovation content of our proposal is that solutions for risk reduction (and possibile technical solutions too) are suggested in a wider frame of peer to peer communication and home-delivered information, that is an effective and innovative participative approach to public health prevention.
What barriers might hinder the success of your initiative? How do you plan to overcome them?
The main problems are about coordination and social capital: where social capital is huge the project seems to work in a very efficient way, where voluntary associations are not linked each other or not well coordinated by local social services the project encounters more difficulties. This problem can be overcomed by an additional action of training of local bodies to advise them for potential problems and presenting best practicies and the solutions already adopted to involve local association in the project; in addition the small amounth acknowledged to the associations can help to overcome some initial barriers and as an incentive to collaborate (partial offset for initial coordination costs): from this point of view the project is based on social capital but is a leverage to empower social capital too (empowerment and social capital are spillovers of the project).
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What are the specific professional backgrounds and competencies your team brings to the initiative?
1. policy coordinator at regional level (public health professional); 2. administrative support at regional level (communication expert); 2. Local health professionals for training of the volunteers and advisor about technical issue linked to home injuries; 3. Local social services. local coordination of the project (social worker) 4. Local social service (administrative support).
20 volunteers, among wich almost 4-5 volunteers in the coordination group (one for each association involved in the project)
Please describe your management or coordination structure in the initiative.
There are 2 coordination group: the first is an institutional group (region - local public bodies) and the second is at local leve (social services - coordination group of the associations).
The regional coordination groups decides methods, standards, objectives and monitoring procedures. At local level is decided associtations to be involved and how to contact elderly people. Results are periodically reported to the regional coordination group.
Please provide the total yearly budget in Euro that your initiative spends on implementing the solution.
50 euros for each home access (the whole amount depend on the extention of the project)
National public funding
100 (unitl now but we would like to search for other forms of support)
European Union public funding
Economic return from own products/services
Foundations and philanthropy capital
Single donations from private individuals
Donations from private companies
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Males and females, elderly people (65+ years) living in cities or small villages. AND Elderly people involved in voluntary/phylantropic associations.
Please estimate the number of persons within your target group (users, clients, etc.) that you currently reach directly with your solution.
In which local/regional/national area(s) is the solution currently implemented?
Emilia-Romagna region (Italy) Cities: Sorbolo (PR), Imola (BO), Bologna, Cesena.
What is the impact on your target group (users, clients) you want to generate?
We want to transfert communication and information about home injury prevention, raise the degree of awarness of the problem, push to safer behavior and to take precautions to ensure the safety of homes. Empower local associations. Promote integration of local associations and elderly volunteers in public health promotion programmes (as key actors).
What is the wider impact on society you want to generate?
Increase the knowledged of the problem in the local community, empower elderly people and enhance voluntary association involvement in public policies, implement social capital.
What are the impacts on your target group you already achieved?
This project has been tested in several realities (mainly small villages of Emilia-Romagna Region - Italy). It was very successfull in those context in which there was high level of local integration between social services and voluntary associations. Volutaries trained vere enthusiastic in being helpful for local community and elderly who received the visits were pleased to host known "opinion leaders" of the local community and feel that the municipalty and association were there for them. As positive result, this project has been demonstrated to be effective in pushing toward changes in att
How has the impact of your initiative been assessed?
Experience-based self-assessment (you assessed the impacts based on your experiences with the target group), Feedback-based self-assessment (you assessed the impacts based on feedback from the target group without using specific methods), Self-evaluation (you used qualitative and/or quantitative methods to assess impacts).
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Mission and strategy.
Please indicate webpage or contact for obtaining the respective information.
What are your milestones for further developing, implementing, and establishing your initiative in the next three years? Please describe 1-3 milestones.
Milestone 1: Extend the sperimentation: continue sperimentation in Emilia-Romagna region (involvement of at least 1 village for each province
Milestone 2: Spread the results: spread of first achievements and training on methodologies at european level
Milestone 3: Going abroad: experiment the project in at least 2 villages of the same area in several EU countries (Spain, Portugal, 2 eastern countries).
Created on 06/13/2013 by camarg
Chelino is the first chair with a lifting device that enables sitting down and standing up without exertion and does not require any power supply.
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How long has the main implementer been operating?
1‐5 years
Please provide a short description of the main implementer.
camarg OG ist a startup, founded 2009 by two design students Martin Bliem and Christian Miletzky.
Their aim is to help elderie and handicaped persons by inventing innovative and beautiful products for everyday life.
With camarg they want to create a world in which things can be handled easily, where people can lean back without worrying and a feeling of freedom can unfold.
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How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? Which competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? Which competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? Which competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
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Chelino - Standing up easily
Describe your initiative
Chelino is the first chair with a lifting device that enables sitting down and standing up without exertion and does not require any power supply.
Which of these fields of Active and Healthy Ageing are addressed by your initiative?
Assisted daily living, Independent living solutions.
If none of the above, answer here:
Please describe and explain the problem your initiative is trying to solve.
One of the major problems people have to face when getting older is their increasing need of other people's help, thus loosing their independence.
They may need the aid of family members and nurses in order to stand up, which in turn can cause a permanent overload for those lifting them up and result in chronic backache.
Please describe and explain the solution your initiative is implementing. What is innovative about your solution? What distinguishes your solution from other existing approaches to the problem?
So far there only exist recliners with lifting device but no chairs for sitting at a table.
Chelino is the first chair with an integrated standup-aid. By pressing the buttons on the armrests, the pneumatic lifting device inside the legs of the chair is activated. The user is lowered gently to the desired sitting position or lifted to get up easier.
Chelino is equipped with automatic brakes. During the sitting-down and standing-up process the chair cannot be moved backward, which ensures stability and firmness. While sitting on lowered seating, the brakes are automatically released and the chair can be moved backwards.
The mechanics are hidden inside the chair's legs. So the chair looks like a nice furniture and not like a medical device. The combination of functionality and design contributes to a comfortable living where harmony and joy can develop individually.
Chelino was already honored by winning several innovations- and design awards for example the red dot 2012.
Beside giving independence and comfort to many users, Chelino can also lower the costs for elderly care while improving the quality of life of disabled people and their nurses: A forward-looking approach to meet the challenges of the aging population.
Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
People who come in age try to stay as long as possible in their own houses. Having a beautiful chair that supports them in their mobility, makes life much easier.
They can stand up independently, roll with the chair into another room or us it as a stool for cooking or ironing.
Please describe if and how your stakeholders (cooperation partners, funders, users, etc.) have been participating in defining the problem and developing the solution.
An elaborate business plan began as bachelor thesis with whom several prices at business plan competitions could be won. Together with a fellow designer an experimental model was built to test the basic function. The first chair still was no beauty, however, the idea of the standup aid could convince various national funding authorities. With this support prototyps were developed and 2012 the first chairs were sold. The biggest challenge the designers had to face during the development was to consider the physical limitation that you do not have as a young and healthy person and so could be overlooked easily. Furthermore a huge amount of creativity and notable mental work was required to combine necessary safety with an optical fine design.
Has your solution been tested in trials, experimentations, or pilot projects? If yes, please describe the process and outcome.
Chelino was checked by the independent inspecting authority TÜV. Several doctors, physiotherapist, self-help groups and retirement homes have testet and recommend Chelino.
So far 60 chairs have been sold.
How long has your solution been in operation?
for 1‐5 years
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Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)
Please select the relationship between your solution and related solutions currently established in our society. Is your solution…
substitutive (your solutions is substituting existing solutions because they do not meet needs or solve the problem appropriately)
Please try to identify and describe competing solutions implemented by other organizations addressing the same problem as you are. What challenges do these competing solutions pose to your success or growth?
There is an ejector seat that you can put on a normal chair. It has several disadvantages:
- it is inefficient and not stable.
- it can´t be fixed, so there is a risc to fall from the chair when you lean forward.
- a normal chair has no casters, so you can´t sit to a table, as the lifting device makes it impossible to move while sitting on it. if the ejector seat is put on a chair with casters, the chair is moving too easily and there is a high risc of falling during the sitting down process.
- the hightened sitting position is a sever problem for the blood circulation
Ejector seats are no risc for the sucess of Chelino.
What barriers might hinder the success of your initiative? How do you plan to overcome them?
Big companies could try to copy Chelino. An already granted patent should prevent imitations.
The team of camarg has little experience in distribution. So camarg is looking for a cooperation with a bigger company or an investor who can provide knowledge that´s missing.
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What are the specific professional backgrounds and competencies your team brings to the initiative?
The team consists of Martin Bliem and Christian Miletzky.
Martin Bliem studied engineering economics for 3 years and then switched to design and product management where he met Christian Miletzky. While Martin Bliem had his focus on marketing, Christian Miletzky had on design. After finishing studies, and working for a short periode for a startup and design companies, they founded camarg OG. With their company they won several awards and could gain a lot of experience in the market of elder care in the last 4 years.
Please describe your management or coordination structure in the initiative.
Martin Bliem is CEO. He is responsible for distribution, finance and product development.
Christian Miletzky is responsible for product development, purchase and production.
Please provide the total yearly budget in Euro that your initiative spends on implementing the solution.
The total yearly budget is about 80.000 Euros.
European Union public funding
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Main B2C target groups are: elder persons, persons with illnesses such as parkinson, multiple sclerosis , rheumatism and neurological disorders. Also the kids of elder people play an important role, as Chelino is often sold as present for their parents.
Main B2C target groups are: retirement homes, rehabilitation center and hospitals.
Please estimate the number of persons within your target group (users, clients, etc.) that you currently reach directly with your solution.
There are millions who have problems to get up from their chair.
In which local/regional/national area(s) is the solution currently implemented?
Austria and Germany. Several Scandinavian companies are interested in our chair.
What is the impact on your target group (users, clients) you want to generate?
People should have their chance to be free and independent as long as possible. We want to provide those people with handicaps innovative and beatiful products, so that they can handle their every day with ease.
What is the wider impact on society you want to generate?
We face demogrphic changes and higher costs for elder care.
This is often seen as a problem for society. As a result elder people could feel unwanted.
We on the other side see it as a chance to make the last yeras of life desirable. Sooner or later all of us will be old and less independent. Its good to know that being old is no burden for society nor for oneself.
What are the impacts on your target group you already achieved?
There are already 60 elder and handicaped persons who us Chelino every day and are very satisfied.
How has the impact of your initiative been assessed?
Self-evaluation (you used qualitative and/or quantitative methods to assess impacts).
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Mission and strategy, Organisational structure, Information on team members, Evaluation report, Working method and 'theory of change'.
Please indicate webpage or contact for obtaining the respective information.
What are your milestones for further developing, implementing, and establishing your initiative in the next three years? Please describe 1-3 milestones.
Just right now we develop a new model of Chelino that is much cheaper and has a variable weight adjustment. In end of summer 100 pieces will be produced. Distribution will be developed.
We are in talks with several investors. An investment is planed for this year.
CommCare is a case management solution for Community Health Workers (CHWs). Each CHW is equipped with a mobile phone running our free, open source software that contains forms, educational prompts, and other tools. CommCare helps manage enrollment, support, and tracking of clients and activities.
Created on 06/11/2013 by mcmelenberg
Better healthcare can be provided for less. Freedom of choice and international mobility should be enhanced to meet the modern day needs of elderly.
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Netherlands, OV, Vroomshoop
How long has the main implementer been operating?
Less than a year
Please provide a short description of the main implementer.
I spend my life in between Portugal and the Netherlands. My professional background is finance, working as a freelance consultant for banks in the Netherlands for the past 7 years. My parents always looked after my grandparents and gave them a choice to live where they wanted. In their case it was at their home. My parents are now reaching the retirement age. They love to spend their spare time nearby the ocean in milder climates and they are looking forward to be able to enjoy more time there. I hope to be able to give them the same freedom of choice, they gave to my grandparents.
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Better healthcare can be provided for less. Freedom of choice and international mobility should be enhanced to meet the modern day needs of elderly.
Which of these fields of Active and Healthy Ageing are addressed by your initiative?
Personalized health management, Independent living solutions.
If none of the above, answer here:
Please describe and explain the problem your initiative is trying to solve.
National healthcare institutions and regulations inhibit the freedom of many Northern European citizens to enjoy their retirement in countries they want. As long as one is healthy, without physical limitations, borders don't exist within Europe. But, borders still exist and choices are limited for elderly that depend on daily assistance. Active aging and freedom of choice involves traveling, which should be stimulated instead of being limited.
Please describe and explain the solution your initiative is implementing. What is innovative about your solution? What distinguishes your solution from other existing approaches to the problem?
Better healthcare can be provided for less. The current healthcare system, doesn’t meet the demands and possibilities of the modern society. Freedom of choice and international mobility should be enhanced to meet the modern day demands. The Crossborder Choice enhances the international mobility and freedom of choice by talking with regulators, national institutions and other stakeholders to improve the healthcare system. Improving transparency and simplifying administration are just examples of the results we strive for. Besides this, we bring together partners to organize long-term stays abroad.
At this moment we are active for the healthcare system in the Netherlands, within 3 years we plan to be active in at least 4 other countries.
Active aging and freedom of choice involves traveling, which should be stimulated instead of being limited.
Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
Many people in the Netherlands (and outside) have the wish to enjoy their freedom once they retire. The freedom to enjoy milder climates from southern Europe, or outside Europe. Also many former immigrants, with origins in Turkey, Maroc or elsewhere, have a wish to stay for longer periods outside their residential country. With their children and grand children living in the Netherlands, they don’t want to move permanently to another country, but they want to enjoy the freedom after a long working life to stay for longer periods in another country. Simplifying administration and more transparency for both authorities and consumers are few examples to remove barriers. 1 of our first steps is to find reliable partners (domestic and foreign).
Please describe if and how your stakeholders (cooperation partners, funders, users, etc.) have been participating in defining the problem and developing the solution.
Communication with stakeholders is part of the solution offered to improve the international mobility of elderly. The definition of the problem has been done in cooperation with end-consumers (care-dependent elderly), not the institutional stakeholders, like insurance companies and regulative authorities.
Has your solution been tested in trials, experimentations, or pilot projects? If yes, please describe the process and outcome.
In a Norwegian pilot project Norwegian were temporarily brought to Spain. The participants enjoyed their stay and the expenses were about 40% less than in Norway.
How long has your solution been in operation?
for less than a year
Select the stage that best applies to your solution
Start-Up (a pilot that has just begun operating)
Please select the relationship between your solution and related solutions currently established in our society. Is your solution…
complementary (your solution is complementing existing solutions and compensating their weaknesses while not intending to substitute them)
Please try to identify and describe competing solutions implemented by other organizations addressing the same problem as you are. What challenges do these competing solutions pose to your success or growth?
Tour operators specialized in accessible tourism exist and offer a practical solution for care abroad. These organizations don't take into consideration the institutional barriers existing for a large part of their customers. National regulations, governmental authorities, administrative demands, insurance companies and healthcare institutions more often pose a larger barrier for many elderly and care-dependent then physical limitations. Also culture-sensitivity and language play an important role for these groups. Another group is largely neglected with tour operators: retired immigrants.
What barriers might hinder the success of your initiative? How do you plan to overcome them?
One of the aims of the project is to overcome existing barriers and limitations for elderly and other care dependent to go abroad for a longer stay. At this moment regulatory barriers still exist in the Netherlands and the administrative demands are too complicated.
Vested interests from healthcare organizations like nursery homes and their openness to change might hinder the success. Also insurance companies and regulative authorities form barriers that hinder care dependent to go abroad.
Convince the stakeholders better care can be provided for less, which should be the goal of all the stakeholders in the healthcare market.
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What are the specific professional backgrounds and competencies your team brings to the initiative?
Insurance background (2 persons); 1 specifically within healthcare, which initiated a project to provide healthcare outside the EU. Another person has worked as a manager at the finance department in a large insurance company.
My own background is banking, with which I have experience in financing healthcare institutions. Also, I am known with the regulations and limitations in long-term healthcare.
I hired 2 freelance marketing and programming experts.
The project is backed by a director from a nursery home in the Netherlands, which advises informally.
Please describe your management or coordination structure in the initiative.
Currently I am the only person fully active for the foundation, therefore all responsibilities and decisions are ultimately made by me. The foundation has an advisory board (currently 2 members), which holds me accountable for decisions made and strategy. They can also expel me.
Please provide the total yearly budget in Euro that your initiative spends on implementing the solution.
European Union public funding
Economic return from own products/services
Foundations and philanthropy capital
Single donations from private individuals
Donations from private companies
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Elderly (55-80 years) that want to stay abroad for several months per year, but are depending on basic long-term care. Within this group, 2 different targets can be distinguished: former immigrants (that want to spend some of their time in their country of origin; mostly outside EU) and native dutch citizens, that want to enjoy milder climates (mostly southern Europe).
Please estimate the number of persons within your target group (users, clients, etc.) that you currently reach directly with your solution.
In which local/regional/national area(s) is the solution currently implemented?
the Netherlands (national)
What is the impact on your target group (users, clients) you want to generate?
Long-term healthcare can also be provided for less in southern European countries then in most northern European countries. Unfortunately, most European countries limit the possibilities to enjoy retirement, without losing the financial support they would be receiving while staying at home, or spend their time in a nursery home.
What is the wider impact on society you want to generate?
Better healthcare can be provided for less. With the challenge of an aging population and rising rising public expenses on healthcare, society is losing an opportunity by limiting elderly to go abroad. The current healthcare system, doesn’t meet the demands and possibilities of the modern society. Freedom of choice and international mobility should be enhanced to meet the modern day demands. The Crossborder Choice enhances the international mobility and freedom of choice by talking with regulators, national institutions and other stakeholders to improve the healthcare system.
What are the impacts on your target group you already achieved?
Foundation The Crossborder Choice is established in the april 2013, hence there is no data to proof the impact of its activities. Nevertheless proof can be found in the number of native dutch retirees going to southern Europe for the winter months, which are estimated around 300.000 every year. Besides this, there is a growing group of former immigrants reaching retirement age.
How has the impact of your initiative been assessed?
Experience-based self-assessment (you assessed the impacts based on your experiences with the target group), Feedback-based self-assessment (you assessed the impacts based on feedback from the target group without using specific methods).
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Mission and strategy, Organisational structure, Information on team members, Activity report, Working method and 'theory of change'.
Please indicate webpage or contact for obtaining the respective information.
What are your milestones for further developing, implementing, and establishing your initiative in the next three years? Please describe 1-3 milestones.
1. A partnership with an organizations in 3 key-stakeholder groups: insurance companies, healthcare institution (nursery homes/ home care) and regulative authorities, in order to make a cooperative program that allows elderly to live half in the Netherlands and half abroad.
2. Pilot trip with a large group (minimum 30) from the Netherlands staying abroad for a longer period.
3. 1000 members that went with the foundation for a longer period abroad.
We have made a wine which is less harmful and largely safe for liver and stomach. It is similar to current brands and it has no different color and odor. Only, this wine is enriched with specific herbal power in subtle quantity, to remove the harmful effect of wine.
Created on 06/10/2013 by Casa de Sara
Centered around a local school, Casa de Sara is working to improve nutrition in one impoverished Bolivian community. By providing affordable boxed meals to go, we aim to improve the health of the community through nutrition. We will do this through education, jobs and access to well balanced meals.
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United States, TN, Knoxville, Knox County
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Awarded the Independent Charities Seal of Excellence
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Elevator Pitch
Centered around a local school, Casa de Sara is working to improve nutrition in one impoverished Bolivian community. By providing affordable boxed meals to go, we aim to improve the health of the community through nutrition. We will do this through education, jobs and access to well balanced meals.
Problem
More than 1 billion people in the world are hungry and 1 out of 3 children in Bolivia are malnourished. Those who are hungry may have access to some foods, but they do not have access to nutrient rich meals. Often their diets consist solely of starchy and fatty foods, leaving them with health and developmental issues. Families are unable to purchase nutrient rich meals, nor do they have the proper equipment to safely cook and store those foods.
Solution
Casa de Sara is creating a nutrition program that revolves around a local school. This project will address children as the primary targets, but also reach out to their families and the entire community. Nutrient rich meals will be offered at an affordable price in a boxed package to those who are unable to buy, cook, and store it. Our goal is to make this meal as convenient and inexpensive as fast food, but with a healthy and sustainable approach. Pureed foods will also be available for babies in order to combat the high rates of malnutrition in infants and young children. Community members will work on a small farm to offset the costs of food in the kitchen to bring these meals to the public for the lowest price possible.
Example
Johanna is a student of Casa de Sara's school and her mother sells crafts, a job that is unpredictable and pays little. Her mother needs a job and the ability to feed her family nutritious meals on a regular schedule. If she could pick up dinner for her family, including her youngest child who is 1.5 years old, she would no longer have to rely on empanadas and cheap starchy foods for dinner. With available land, animals, and equipment, Johanna's mother and others like her would have the ability to work in a variety of jobs and increase their household income. They would then be able to invest more in nutrient rich foods, improve the health of their family, and invest in the future of their community.
Impact
This project impacts the health of the people in this community by providing jobs, education, and community development through improved nutrition. It can be then be used as a model, contributing to the health of other communities and a nutrient rich world. This project can be implemented anywhere with start-up for a kitchen and food, then becoming sustainable by investing income into expanding the program as demand increases and increasing employment opportunities. This model can contribute positive changes to communities whose health suffers due to a lack of nutrition. It targets issues revolving around food availability, poverty, nutrient intake, and land use and can be replicated for global change.
Marketplace
This particular approach to combating malnutrition has not yet been seen. Instead of providing inexpensive powders and mixes or a simple bowl of rice, this program invests in the initial costs of staring a food program to provide nutrient rich, balanced meals. It then turns over the responsibility to the community in order to continue its success and expand its reach. By taking a more holistic approach, we will create the infrastructure needed for locals to offer nutrition to the community and take ownership of the program. By doing so, they will create an example for others to do the same.
Sustainability Plan
This project will be ready to launch late this fall. Working through Casa de Sara, a well-established organization in the area, this program will initially work through its school, later expanding to the entire community. Start up income will allow Casa de Sara to begin this project, though it will fund itself once implemented. To make the most of the space and have the maximum impact, we will collaborate with the University of TN.
Founding Story
Running a school in a highly impoverished community for several years allowed us to see the serious impact nutrition can have on a person's health and ability to function. While we can ensure that our students are fed every day, we can’t do the same for the community. We realized that a child should not only be in a healthy school, but that they need to be in a healthy home as well. With limited income and no clean facilities, we know that it is impossible for them to achieve proper nutrition on their own. To help them do that, we must create a vehicle for the community to become healthier through good nutrition. It's more than just a boxed meal; it's a sustainable solution to the problem.
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Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.
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Nutrient-rich farming.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
While we already incorporate nutrient-rich farming into this project, expanding upon it could further our reach in a variety of ways. It would allow us to produce more food, create more jobs, and provide more meals for the community. It would also be beneficial to collaborate with other communities to share ideas and evidence on nutrient-rich farming practices. The goal of this would be two-fold: It would allow us to improve our program and to provide it as a model for other communities to do the same.
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Created on 06/6/2013 by MahaManas
Now, in this critical time, most of the people are terribly stricken with different kinds of poisons. There is no such a remedy which is able to free us from today’s fatal poisons. We know, poison / toxin is the cause of most diseases. As the demand of the time, ‘MahaPathy’ has come into existence.
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Now that which we are eating, water we are drinking, air we are breathing in, all are more or less poisoned. Every day in this way we are becoming poisonous. Now it is difficult to understand that who is ill and who is healthy. Doctors those who are treating us, also they are not free from poison. Knowingly or unknowingly– day after day gradually we are becoming attacked by severe diseases due to poison.Treatments are becoming impracticable.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
‘MahaPathy’ (the super excellent system of medicine) has come into existence to bring us out of the wood. Only ‘MahaPathy’ is able to neutralize our bodily poisons / toxins. When current systems of medicines are unable to cure– curability of MahaPathy has been proved astonishingly in suchlike many cases.
Traditional scientific medicines are not able to recover many mental and physical problems, such as rheumatism, acidity, skin disease, asthma, gonorrhea, syphilis, mania etc. Current scientific medicines can only suppress them and give us cure on the surface. MahaPathic medicine can solve these problems from the root cause. In case of nutrition, it takes an excellent part. To know more, visit– www.mahapathy.webs.com
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
We have treated many patients with great success. Once those who were suffering from complicated mental and physical problems, now, they are almost free from their problems by the help of MahaPathy. Anyone can try it to obtain amazing recovery result of MahaPathy. One of the main causes of malnutrition is inability of our anabolic system and lack of digestibility. By use of ‘MahaPathy', digestibility and anabolic ability come to the normal state. In this way, MahaPathy is able to help us to make free from malnutrition. For example: Dr. S. Mallik (50+) was suffering from chronic disease of digestive system. Also he had blood sugar, blood pressure, rheumatism, depression, malnutrition. After MahaPathy treatment, now he is in good health.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
It has worldwide marketplace. Health conscious people, those who are suffering from chronic diseases and unable to recover from their health problems are our likely subscribers / customers.
Now most of the people are conscious about their health. They want soundness; want to cure their children rightly. About 20% of population is our target demographics. People are ready to be treated through Alternative Medicines, when current systems of medicines are unable to recovery.
Currently, there is no direct competitor in the market of Alternative Medicines.
Created on 06/6/2013 by MahaManas
Now, in this critical time, most of the people are terribly stricken with different kinds of poisons. There is no such a remedy which is able to free us from today’s fatal poisons. We know, poison / toxin is the cause of most diseases. As the demand of the time, ‘MahaPathy’ has come into existence.
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Elevator Pitch
Now, in this critical time, most of the people are terribly stricken with different kinds of poisons. There is no such a remedy which is able to free us from today’s fatal poisons. We know, poison / toxin is the cause of most diseases. As the demand of the time, ‘MahaPathy’ has come into existence.
Problem
Now that which we are eating, water we are drinking, air we are breathing in, all are more or less poisoned. Every day in this way we are becoming poisonous. Now it is difficult to understand that who is ill and who is healthy. Doctors those who are treating us, also they are not free from poison. Knowingly or unknowingly– day after day gradually we are becoming attacked by severe diseases due to poison.Treatments are becoming impracticable.
Solution
‘MahaPathy’ (the super excellent system of medicine) has come into existence to bring us out of the wood. Only ‘MahaPathy’ is able to neutralize our bodily poisons / toxins. When current systems of medicines are unable to cure– curability of MahaPathy has been proved astonishingly in suchlike many cases.
Traditional scientific medicines are not able to recover many mental and physical problems, such as rheumatism, acidity, skin disease, asthma, gonorrhea, syphilis, mania etc. Current scientific medicines can only suppress them and give us cure on the surface. MahaPathic medicine can solve these problems from the root cause. In case of nutrition, it takes an excellent part. To know more, visit– www.mahapathy.webs.com
Example
We have treated many patients with great success. Once those who were suffering from complicated mental and physical problems, now, they are almost free from their problems by the help of MahaPathy. Anyone can try it to obtain amazing recovery result of MahaPathy. One of the main causes of malnutrition is inability of our anabolic system and lack of digestibility. By use of ‘MahaPathy', digestibility and anabolic ability come to the normal state. In this way, MahaPathy is able to help us to make free from malnutrition. For example: Dr. S. Mallik (50+) was suffering from chronic disease of digestive system. Also he had blood sugar, blood pressure, rheumatism, depression, malnutrition. After MahaPathy treatment, now he is in good health.
Impact
Traditional scientific medicines are not able to recover many mental and physical problems, such as rheumatism, acidity, skin disease, asthma, gonorrhea, syphilis, mania etc. Current scientific medicines can only suppress them and give us cure on the surface. MahaPathy medicine can solve these problems from the root cause.
In case of nutrition, MahaPathic system of medicine takes an excellent part. MahaPathic medicine has an important role in covering the deficiency or losses of the materials (ingredients) of our body-cells. It incites the essential and nutritious materials of the body-cells which are draining away for any reason. As a result of that, the system of the body takes the initiative to recovery the losses gradually.
In this year (2013), more than 50 people have been helped by this system of medicine. 80% of them have recovered and 20% are partly improved.
Marketplace
It has worldwide marketplace. Health conscious people, those who are suffering from chronic diseases and unable to recover from their health problems are our likely subscribers / customers.
Now most of the people are conscious about their health. They want soundness; want to cure their children rightly. About 20% of population is our target demographics. People are ready to be treated through Alternative Medicines, when current systems of medicines are unable to recovery.
Currently, there is no direct competitor in the market of Alternative Medicines.
Sustainability Plan
It is able to be maintained exploiting natural resources without destroying the ecological balance of an area.
Our product is MahaPathic medicine and service is medical treatment on the base of ‘MahaPathy’ system of medicine. Still we haven’t started business professionally. Also we are desirous to setup Mahapathy Medical College and University of international stander in India. To make it advanced, we need enough money.
Founding Story
The great wise and humanitarian MahaManas –being quite sympathetic to all human beings, he has shown the path of better life –that is ‘MahaDharma’ ('MahaManan' is the practical aspect of MahaDharma).
Without soundness of the body and mind, sufficient human development or self-development is not possible, so for the demand of the syllabus of true and universal self-development, he has built an excellent path or procedure of universal treatment for getting enough healthiness. That path or procedure is –Maha-Path or ‘MahaPathy’– A super-excellent system of medicine for universal treatment.
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Human wellness and vitality.
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We need investor or industrialist or financial help to improve and establish this endeavor.
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Created on 06/5/2013 by bressjn
Global Strategies is committed to finding health solutions for children. Information shared about an ill newborn in a rural US setting need not be limited by its modality. Real-time lab data, video and remote neuro-monitoring will improve rural newborn care by expediting the initiation of therapy and transport.
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Improving Immediate Birth Asphyxia Care in Rural America
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United States, CA, San Francisco, San Francisco County
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Inadequate oxygenation to a newborn's brain can result in severe and even fatal brain injury. Recent developments in cooling protocols and other neuro-protective strategies are helping to minimize these injuries. Such advanced therapies are concentrated in major urban centers, but the patients are frequently born in rural settings. Decisions about sending air transport and initiating therapies are made by information shared by phone between a primary rural provider and an expert in an urban center. The telephone is a poor modality for transmitting the desired information about the neurologic exam and ongoing assessment of these critically ill babies.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Interactive and trackable algorithms, secure video and remote neuro-monitoring in an integrated approach and coupled with existent rural provider education programs will significantly enhance the information received by referral centers and allow for more accurate and timely decisions regarding passive head-cooling and transport. With real-time lab data, video allowing the referral center to evaluate the baby's clinical appearance and neuro-monitoring to detect abnormal brain wave patterns, the babies who need therapy can have that therapy initiated promptly and unneeded and expensive transports can be avoided.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
A baby is born at 3AM following a difficult delivery in rural Yreka, California. The nurses initiate standard neonatal resuscitation techniques and delivery oxygen through a bag mask. They call for help. A physician intubates the baby. She is pale and not moving, but has a heart rate. The primary team calls an urban referral center in San Francisco through a video-conference and using a tablet opens up a step-by-step guide that instructs them to place umbilical lines and draw blood gases. The neonatal experts guide the team through the neurologic examination and watch it being performed. The laboratory studies are entered into the tablet and are immediately visible to the urban referral center. An aEEG, a neuro-monitoring tool to assess brain activity, is attached and the readings also appear at the urban referral center. Confident in the data and physical exam, the referral center can now make a decision regarding cooling therapy and air transport. In follow up, experts from the urban center visit Yreka and review the case using the video and data and address areas for improvement.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
A large percentage of neonatal intensive care units across the country provide advanced therapies for newborns suffering brain injuries. In states with rural areas separated by large distances from urban referral centers, timely and accurate diagnosis is critical to preventing long-term neuro-cognitive deficits. Significant resources are being dedicated at academic institutions and large neonatal units to advance the neurologic care of newborns, but these therapies require early identification of severe injury by providers for whom a critically ill newborn is a rare event. Urban centers that offered this technology and service would become preferred referral centers for rural hospitals.
Created on 06/4/2013 by pars
With obesity in epidemic proportions, the NewWayFitness mission is to create great health by focusing on the whole family, providing parents the education and technology they need to develop and maintain a healthy lifestyle for each family member. We market P.A.R.S. to large populations through corporate wellness by using a volunteer benefit format and plan to eventually merge with a larger company to expand the product/program nationally.
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Enabling Parents to Sustain Healthy Families
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United States, VA, Glen Allen, Henrico County
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1 out of every 3 children in the US is either at risk or already overweight or obese. That’s more than 17 million children. One third of all children born in 2000 or later will suffer from diabetes at some point in their lives; too many will face chronic, obesity-related health problems including heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, liver disease, and asthma. In addition to the personal suffering, we spend approximately $160 billion annually in obesity - related medical cost. The expense is expected to double by as early as 2018. According to the Bipartisan Policy Center, the obesity epidemic in the U.S. will eventually bankrupt the nation if left unchecked.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
NewWayFitness will provide an innovative, effective, family oriented solution to both the childhood and adult obesity epidemic. It begins with the parent who is ultimately responsible for the health and fitness development of their family. NewWayFitness embraces the great family health and fitness advice from many expert organizations including Let's Move, the YMCA, and others. The difference is that, where each organization provides great printed advice, the Physical Activity Reward System - P.A.R.S. - gives parents the tools they need to put the advice into action. The best part of all, it’s all done using innovative technology so constant parent intervention is not required!
In order to eliminate long corporate sales cycles, P.A.R.S will be marketed as a volunteer benefit to large populations through companies and corporations, giving all employee/parents within the organization a carefully marketed option to directly purchase the patent pending P.A.R.S. monthly subscription.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
P.A.R.S. is a web based software program that emphasizes physical activity fun and personal success while using a “carrot and stick” reward system for healthy behavior. P.A.R.S. is based on the generation’s proven concept of giving a child an allowance for doing chores. In this case, the parent gives the child a reward for healthy behavior, including time spent in physical activity. The parent and child agree on the specific reward or rewards and the exact amount of physical activity required. The information is entered into the P.A.R.S. software where bar graphs are created. The child, teen, or hopefully the entire family wears an accelerometer that accurately measures the amount of time spent in physical activity then uploads the information into the software where progress is tracked and the rewards are provided accordingly.
What’s unique about P.A.R.S. is that, if the child or teen does not respond positively to the rewards – the carrot, the parent can initiate the follow up “Play to View” Program – the stick. The Play to View program uses a combination of the P.A.R.S. software and special hardware to safely turn off the flow of electricity to designated TV’s and video consoles in the house. Then the child has to bank physical activity time to watch TV or play video games. Using Play to View as a backup, P.A.R.S. adds ongoing, extra motivation without constant parent intervention. P.A.R.S. includes both parent and child web portals that provide ongoing physical activity, nutrition, and weight management education to supplement the P.A.R.S. healthy activity initiative.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
There are several companies, Zamzee, Geopalz, Sqord, and Movable, that use accelerometers to track and reward child and teen physical activity. Rewards vary from pre-determined items to customized video games. Geopalz is the only other company that seeks to address the entire family. The Geopalz system provides rewards in the form of customized video play and sets pre-determined requirements (steps) for Android phone and Google TV use. P.A.R.S does more. In addition to setting limits on all TVs and video consoles, it rewards viewing time in proportion to any and all physical activity time, allows the parent and child to decide on any variety of rewards, even allows the family to work together towards a common reward, and provides ongoing child and parent health and fitness education.
Created on 06/4/2013 by dayamoyeeMondal
We have made an excellent nutritious food/drink to make successful the program– ‘Nutrients for All’. It is cheap and easily digestible. It is eatable and drinkable like ‘Horlicks’.
Organization: MahaAnand Holy Association
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Nutrition is the main problem in India. There the big problem is malnutrition. A recent survey exposed that anaemia rates of 51-74% in women and small children. Children under three, 47% were underweight and 45% underdeveloped by global standards. Protein deficiency is one of main causes.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
We need to provide such a food/drink which is cheap and easily digestible. To solve the problem to make successful the program– ‘Nutrients for all, we have made an excellent nutritious food/drink. The name of this nutritious food/drink is NRG.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Ingredients of this food/drink: Flour made of roasted wheat, maize, gram, soya bin, and milk powder, sugar etc. besides this foods, there is an essential thing in it that is ‘Five-Phos. 3x’ –subtle quantity of five phosphates (Ferrum Phos., Kali. Phos., Mag. Phos., Natrum Phos., Calc. Phos.), which make it very effective. Also there are a few nutritious Herbs which make it excellent!
No doubt, if one takes it regularly for three months, amazing result will be seen.
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It has a big market all over India.
Happy Healthy Home is a holistic solution to provide vital nutrients to a healthy family in an affordable manner that controls daily damages & prevents all from falling ill. This comes in a bouquet of products & services that are based upon nature-care and are free from artificial substances.
Created on 06/3/2013 by dayamoyeeMondal
We have made an excellent nutritious food/drink to make successful the program– ‘Nutrients for All’. It is cheap and easily digestible. It is eatable and drinkable like ‘Horlicks’.
Organization: MahaAnand Holy Association
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Elevator Pitch
We have made an excellent nutritious food/drink to make successful the program– ‘Nutrients for All’. It is cheap and easily digestible. It is eatable and drinkable like ‘Horlicks’.
Problem
Nutrition is the main problem in India. There the big problem is malnutrition. A recent survey exposed that anaemia rates of 51-74% in women and small children. Children under three, 47% were underweight and 45% underdeveloped by global standards. Protein deficiency is one of main cause.
Solution
We need to provide such a food/drink which is cheap and easily digestible. To solve the problem to make successful the program– ‘Nutrients for all, we have made an excellent nutritious food/drink. The name of this nutritious food/drink is NRG.
Example
Ingredients of this food/drink: Flour made of roasted wheat, maize, gram, soya bin, milk powder, sugar etc. besides this foods, there is an essential thing in it that is ‘Five-Phos. 3x’ –subtle quantity of five phosphates (Ferrum Phos., Kali. Phos., Mag. Phos., Natrum Phos., Calc. Phos.), which make it very effective. Also there are a few nutritious Herbs which make it excellent!
No doubt, if one takes it regularly for three months, amazing result will be seen.
Impact
We have provided our product to many persons and children for free of cost and get very nice result. Still we haven’t put up for trade it as commercially.
Marketplace
It has a big market all over India.
Sustainability Plan
We need good investor, industrialist or entrepreneur to make it possible.
Founding Story
We have a great endeavor for Human Development (visit my Change shop– Worldwide Human Development Program). To make it successful also we need it.
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Full nourishment foods.
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Human wellness and vitality.
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We have made an excellent nutritious food/drink to make successful the program– ‘Nutrients for All’. It is cheap and easily digestible. It is eatable and drinkable like ‘Horlicks’.
Access Afya is creating a chain of micro-clinics that provide standardized outpatient services targeting the extreme poor. It is a one-stop shop for health supplies and information. This model lowers barriers to good health by bringing care directly to the doorstep of the people who need it most.
Created on 05/30/2013 by Marion Leary
Sink or Swim Philadelphia helps people who are uninsured or underinsured pay for medical expenses using social media and medical crowd-funding.
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The innovative project being proposed is Sink or Swim Philadelphia (SOS). SOS assists people in Philadelphia and surrounding counties who are uninsured or underinsured with medical expenses by using social media and medical crowdfunding to raise funds. Other crowdfunding organizations rely on the recipients to create their own fundraising platform and solicit donations from their family, friends and networks – SOS uses already existing social networking platforms (Facebook & Twitter) to directly raise funds for our recipients. We create the fundraising page and we solicit the donations taking away the burden from the recipients and their families, allowing them to focus on what is most important, getting well.
SOS has two key stakeholders: 1) those who are uninsured or underinsured who are struggling with medical expenses and 2) those who have the financial means to donate to our recipients.
Each month we feature a new story of a Philadelphian struggling to stay afloat due to overwhelming medical expenses on our social media pages and website. Donors can go to our website and social media pages and decide whom to donate to and for how much. This represents an attractive model of “micro-giving” where donors can feel meaningfully connected with the individual recipients that they assist. All the money that is raised for the recipients goes directly to their billing or collection agency to assist with their medical expense.
In Southeastern Pennsylvania (SEPA) in 2010, 11.4% of adults and 3.4% children were uninsured. Moreover, these numbers do not take into account the number of people who were underinsured in SEPA, a statistic that has not been reported locally. An estimated 33% of Philadelphians struggle to pay medical debt and overall in the US 13% of families have exhausted all or most of their savings trying to pay off medical bills. Additionally, 7% of families were unable to pay for basic necessities such as food, heat, or housing.5 Medical debt has a direct influence on health as uninsured adults are more likely to go without medications, health screenings and doctors’ appointments. This problem of uninsured and underinsured populations is urgent as it has been shown that women who are uninsured are significantly more likely to forgo crucial testing such as Pap smears (59.6%), clinical breast exams (58.3%), and mammograms (64.6%) compared with insured adults (30.2%, 26.6% and 32.9% respectively).
There is a severe gap in healthcare coverage for people who need the most medical care, at the most desperate times. SOS was created specifically to help fill that gap. We give our recipients a respite from the decision to pay for necessities, like food or rent, or paying their medical expenses.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
To address this challenge in a creative, innovative and locally-based fashion, SOS uses crowdfunding to bring together groups of individuals to donate small to medium amounts of money to make a big difference in someone’s life each month. SOS achieves this by using the already existing social networking platforms, with an existing network of people who use social media sites on a daily basis. SOS shares the recipient’s story, creates the crowdfunding platform, disseminates the information through social media and performs all of the fundraising. While other similar sites leave all of that work in the hands of their recipients, SOS takes on those tasks allowing the recipients and their families to focus on their health and not their healthcare bills.
Social networking has become an essential part of modern communication, with 69% of all US adults using social networking, and an estimated 4,993,400 in Pennsylvania. The power of social networking has only recently become recognized by health-related initiatives – the number of people that can be reached, in a very small amount of time, not only locally but all over the world, is what makes SOS so successful. Per the Pew Research Center, “Facebook users can on average reach more than 150,000 other Facebook users through friends” and the reach is immense, for example, Twitter currently has over 100 million registered users across the world and is growing substantially every day. This vast online community is the source of an immense fundraising power that most health initiatives have not yet tapped.
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Presently SOS is able to raise an average of $1834 per month for one recipient. Though we would like to expand the number of people we are able to help each month. Since our inception in October 2011 we have raised over $30,000 for 17 recipients in Philadelphia and surrounding counties.
Our recipients, and their families, continually express their gratitude that we were able to help give them a respite from the burden of their medical expenses during times when they should be focusing on recovering from illness or injury. One such recipient Kim F (Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis) stated: “I would like to thank the Sink or Swim foundation for everything they have done to help me and my family with our medical bills...Since our medical insurance changed in January 2012 I became terrified of how am I going to pay my bills...I had to basically pick and choose what tests to get done according to how I would be able to afford to paying them. But with the help from the SOS foundation they gave me the peace of mind knowing that I will have some help paying those medical bills...the SOS foundation felt like an angel on my shoulder saying "go to the doctor's, take care of your health and we will do the best we can to help you with your medical bills"...For the first time in a long time I had the comfort that its okay I have help now & concentrated on getting all my necessary tests, MRI's, bloodwork & office visits taken care of...I will be grateful for the rest of my life to SOS foundation for their kindness and generosity towards me and my family...”
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
Other crowdfunding organizations like GoFundMe, rely on the recipients to create their own fundraising platform and solicit donations from their family, friends and networks – SOS uses already existing social networking platforms (Facebook & Twitter) to directly raise funds for our recipients. We create the fundraising page and we solicit the donations taking away the burden from the recipients and their families, allowing them to focus on what is most important, getting well.
Every person's experience is critical, data on individuals, healthy & sick, will help solve health problems & create paths to prevention much more quickly. We have developed the tool to empower this sharing, in which individuals set their own data sharing and access preferences. Big data is here!
Green Line is a non-governmental association which embraces the principle of environmentally sound development in the developing world.It brings together all those who are concerned with:preserving the past, conserving the present & giving the future a better chance .Green Line was founded in 1991,when a group of professionals from the American University of Beirut (AUB) & their friends decided to translate their concern about the post-war devastated cultural,human & natural environment into an organized action.
Created on 05/29/2013 by cecoedecon_jaipur
Fortification of edible oil has been identified as a cost-effective complementary strategy to tackle vitamin A and D deficiencies, a major concern in Madhya Pradesh. The goal of this project is to improve the Vitamin A and D deficiencies by making fortified oil available through open market.
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Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
1. EdelGive Social Innovation Honours - Runners up in Governance category.
2. Dalmia Trust Water Environment Award given to Jaipur Based NGO
3. National Foundation of India Award
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Soyabean Oil Fortification in Madhya Pradesh
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Growth (the pilot has already launched and is starting to expand)
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Elevator Pitch
Fortification of edible oil has been identified as a cost-effective complementary strategy to tackle vitamin A and D deficiencies, a major concern in Madhya Pradesh. The goal of this project is to improve the Vitamin A and D deficiencies by making fortified oil available through open market.
Problem
NFHS 3 shows that the coverage of vitamin A supplementation is extremely low in MP and only 20% of children between 12 and 35 months of age were given vitamin A supplement in the past six months and only 41% of children 6-35 months ate vitamin A rich foods. The National Nutrition Monitoring bureau (NNMB) also found that 74% of children consume less than 50% of the recommended daily allowance of vitamin A through their diet in India.
Solution
Madhya Pradesh is one of the major soyabean producing states in India. There are many vegetable oil refineries and MP produced about 1 million metric ton of refined soybean oil in the year 2010-11, i.e. half of the Indian production of soybean oil. Soyabean oil is the main edible oil used in both urban and rural households in MP. Therefore, fortifying soyabean oil in MP is a sound strategy and will help reduce the prevalence of vitamin A and D deficiencies in the target populations in the state.
Example
The main activities of the project includes Production and distribution of Fortified soyabean oil by providing Vitamin A and D premix, Quality control, Social Marketing of the fortified soyabean oil by developing of appropriate communication materials and organizing awareness campaigns and Monitoring and Evaluation.
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Full nourishment foods.
If you had greater capacity, which additional sectors would you like your solution to target - either through expansion, partnership, or thought exchange?
Nutrient-rich farming, Human wellness and vitality.
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People need appropriate nutrients to grow, learn, and fight off disease. How do you measure, track, or make use of information about nutrient levels in your own work?
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Considering the flow of nutrients from ecosystems to soil to farms to food to communities, what are the barriers to achieving vitality for people and the planet?
Other barriers you have identified
In your view, what developments need to happen in order to help overcome those barriers and produce a more nutrient rich and vital public and planet?
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Created on 05/28/2013 by LeentjeCools
Dementia Support Plan has three objectives:
1 a network for pro's & family
2 social map on web and video
3 info & education holistic vision
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How long has the main implementer been operating?
1‐5 years
Please provide a short description of the main implementer.
SEL AMBERES vzw is a recognised partnership for everyone within the primary health-& homecare. It functions as a point of contact and communication between the professional and familial care givers, organisations, civiliansand the government. Our most important task is the support of home care by organizing patient centered teamwork. Beside this, we offer informational sessions, trainings, multidisciplinary meetings, and we do projects on relevant topics within pirmary health care.
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How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? What competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
Please find all of our partners on our website. It is should not be fair to make a selection between our partners, every partner will be participating. The challenge is to coöperate, everyone on his own field, but making connections to the whole project, growing into a real healthcare network.
How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? Which competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? Which competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? Which competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
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Demo P ( dementia support plan )
Describe your initiative
Dementia Support Plan has three objectives:
1 a network for pro's & family
2 social map on web and video
3 info & education holistic vision
Which of these fields of Active and Healthy Ageing are addressed by your initiative?
Health literacy and patient empowerment, Personalized health management, Prevention and early diagnosis of functional and cognitive decline, Integrated care for chronic conditions, Assisted daily living, Independent living solutions, Social inclusion (intergenerational practice, work and volunteering), Age friendly buildings, environments, and communities.
If none of the above, answer here:
Please describe and explain the problem your initiative is trying to solve.
Within the region of Antwerp, informal caregivers have it hard to find the right information and support on the right time, especially everything concerning dementia care. Informal caregivers often complain about this. Most of the time, they feel they are left alone with their sorrows and problems, with a lack of support and information. They do know there are certain possibilities, but they often say they face a fragmented and cluttered offer. In fact they wish the healthcare sector should bring the information in a proactive way. This latter is difficult, because it is proper to dementia, that it is hard to discover.
Professionals on the other hand, are wanting to detect families confronted with dementia at an earlier stage, as well for medical therapy as for psycho-social reasons. Besides, on the professional side, the map is really complex, and to speek frankly, the knowlegde about dementia care is not always up-to-date or accurate.
Last but not least, 'dementia' itself suffers from a serious imago problem. People have it hard to admit they should have any cognitive problem. The public opinion is tend to see dementia as a complete disaster, right from the start, while there are still many possible positive actions to be taken, and good moments to share. Another question to be posed and to be answered is the number of patients and families that has to be reached.
The challenge is to bring all points of view and interests together, in fact they share the same concerns, and they need the same structures, te get the opportunity to get in contact.
Please describe and explain the solution your initiative is implementing. What is innovative about your solution? What distinguishes your solution from other existing approaches to the problem?
The final goal for this project is forseeing 1 person for every course someone is taking within the path of dementia. The patient and his caregivers can always rely on this person and have one person where they can go to for all their questions concerning dementia.
Besides of forseeing such a care-agent, Demo P has three crucial objectives:
a) a Demo P network with every partner that is working within the dementia theme. By creating this network we try to empower the professionals, in such a way they can better support any informal caregiver, who are empowered on their turn.
b) That is why we also are creating a Demo P social map where you can find every organisation, health service, social service, home care to residential care, that you may need. This will be available on our website. To enhance the quality of our services, we are producing an adult educational video series. The subjects are chosen as a) Early medical diagnosis and socio- psychological approach b) Social Atlas: who is who? c) Another side of dementia? Alternative & holistic approaches, tips form users to users...
c) The third objective is the coördination of all adult educational possibilities. If needed so, we will develop new courses per target group, for pro's, volunteers or caregivers.
Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
There is a lot information about dementia, sometimes you can't see right from wrong. If you are a caregiver you sometimes don't know where you can find information sessions or talkgroups for family. Demo P wants to create a basis where all this information comes together. We also want that the path of this person can be followed up by someone, that oversees everything and can say when something isn't going that well and if nessecary can suggest something else.. In case of a second level problem, we can organize a personalised care-team, at home, with professional staff, volunteers, familycaregivers and so on.
Please describe if and how your stakeholders (cooperation partners, funders, users, etc.) have been participating in defining the problem and developing the solution.
First there has been a lot of research about dementia and the projects that already exist. Then we did a lot of meetings and interviews with people from the sector who know a lot about the theme and who do also know where are the gaps. Then we worked at a concrete development of the plan. Now the networkpartners are coming together, the social map is developed and the trainings become enginieerd. The Demo P plan is in full production.
Has your solution been tested in trials, experimentations, or pilot projects? If yes, please describe the process and outcome.
We are still in the developmentstage, coming together and thinking out possibilities. We have the experience and the feeling that a lot of solutions do exist, but they are not well known, they often stay under the surface. In fact we have been working on it the last ten years, but we didn't operate as a network. Since the minds are set on cooperation, there is rising a new horizon.
How long has your solution been in operation?
for less than a year
Select the stage that best applies to your solution
Start-Up (a pilot that has just begun operating)
Please select the relationship between your solution and related solutions currently established in our society. Is your solution…
complementary (your solution is complementing existing solutions and compensating their weaknesses while not intending to substitute them)
Please try to identify and describe competing solutions implemented by other organizations addressing the same problem as you are. What challenges do these competing solutions pose to your success or growth?
In another part of the province of Antwerp we helped to develop a dementia carepath in two smaller communities. ( about 50.000 people ) Now we try to develop a similar concept for our region ( 800.000 people ). There is no competition between us. Some of them are even participating in the bigger project that we are doing now. They offered us all their skills, evaluation plans, schedules, ... It is nice to work together like this. The difference is the scale. Our region is divided in 4 sections. But some services are operational in all of them, others do cover only one or two of them. On the other hand, it is easier now to bring together certain persons, who are rather interested in a regional action, than a local action. In general, this bigger scale is handy to spread the action.
What barriers might hinder the success of your initiative? How do you plan to overcome them?
The first challenge stays the most difficult: we have to find a lot of people who want to be a care-agent. Seen the level and the number of persons suffering from dementia, every professional care-agent will have to support several patients/families.
The challenge on the professional field is keeping them goodwilling to coöperate in a multidisciplinary concept, and being fair to communicate their weak points, so they can be treated, so the total power of services will be of a higher degree.
As far as we can see now, they are really willing to participate in the workgroups that are compatible with their professional skills.
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1 fulltime, 4 parttimes, and 14 partimers working for us on demand ( we do have a convenant )
Volunteers
We cooperate with out socio-cultural partners that organize nightcare, daycare sittingservices, ...
External advisers and experts
+/- 20 ( expertise centers dementia, doctors, psychologists, social workers, nurses, family caregivers, ....)
What are the specific professional backgrounds and competencies your team brings to the initiative?
There are doctors, social workers, ..... they are all bringing in their knowledge about the process of dementia and the concrete interpretation of the project. The Expert Centre Dementia ( regional and local ) offices, recognised by the government, are also involved and very interested in our project, the supply all possible informations they have.
Please describe your management or coordination structure in the initiative.
We have one project officer, working parttime on Demo P, together with our permanent staff. One member of our general board, is coaching the project daily. He is having a long time experience in projects, and has an extensive knowledge of dementia. He has written most parts of the concept.
We have an Advisory Group, a working group on communications, a working group of referrals to the early detection, a working group care-agents, a working group of police (runaways), a working group formation, ... a working group Social Atlas;
Please provide the total yearly budget in Euro that your initiative spends on implementing the solution.
This is about 50.000 euro wages and 15.000 euro productdevelopment and 10.000 euro educational budget
National public funding
% 100 ( we may set a reserve over to next year )
European Union public funding
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Foundations and philanthropy capital
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People suffering from dementia, but also the caregivers and the professional caregivers.
Please estimate the number of persons within your target group (users, clients, etc.) that you currently reach directly with your solution.
Our staff calculated that out of a population of 800.000 inhabitants, there would be a 6000 persons with dementia
In which local/regional/national area(s) is the solution currently implemented?
Region of Antwerp ( region set by the flemish government as our working area ) 2/3 of the province of Antwerp.
What is the impact on your target group (users, clients) you want to generate?
We want to create a peace of mind in the target group, they shouldn't have the feeling that they are just running around without even knowing where they have to go to.
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we have the ambition to relieve the state of family caregivers through our action , by regularly supporting them.
What is the wider impact on society you want to generate?
For everyone creating one path that they have to follow for this kind of problematic. We presented our ideas already to the cabinet of the minister of Healthcare, they were well interested. The region of Leuven is also following what we are doing and we are keeping contacts.
What are the impacts on your target group you already achieved?
Nothing yet , because we are still in a starting phase. The informal caregivers, who already know what we are wanting to do, are very enthousiastic about is.
How has the impact of your initiative been assessed?
Feedback-based self-assessment (you assessed the impacts based on feedback from the target group without using specific methods), External evaluation of impacts based on qualitative methods (interviews, focus groups, etc.).
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Mission and strategy, Organisational structure, Information on team members.
Please indicate webpage or contact for obtaining the respective information.
What are your milestones for further developing, implementing, and establishing your initiative in the next three years? Please describe 1-3 milestones.
- a) we want the dementia Demo P network to be continued
- b) we want the Social map to be well known, accurate and largely available
- c) we want that all users will be happy to find and follow adult educational programs on demand
Created on 05/27/2013 by Kim Van Asch
Offer a wide range of care services to older people in great need of care 24/7, with coordination by a case manager / care coach.
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Solidariteit voor het Gezin
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Social enterprise (partly economically self-sustained through market products and services, primary mission is to solve a social problem)
Country where main implementer is located
How long has the main implementer been operating?
More than 5 years
Please provide a short description of the main implementer.
'Solidariteit voor het Gezin' is an independent (non profit) service for welfare and health care that offers a versatile range of services starting from home care, but depending on the needs of its clients, is also committed to organizing and coordinating additional services. Assistance is offered by knowledgeable and motivated staff, starting from a humanist vision and dynamic client centered attitude.
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Huisartsenvereniging Gent (Ghent General Practitioners' Association)
How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? What competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
The General Practitioners' Association's first task is making the project known to general practitioners in Ghent. Moreover, general practitioners will also participate in team consultation meetings for selected patients.
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UZ Gent (Ghent University Hospital)
How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? Which competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
The Ghent University Hospital delivers expertise in care for older people and release management. They are in charge of screening and referral of possible patients. The continuity of care and an optimum reintegration in patients' home environment is ensured together with the care coach.
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OCMW Destelbergen & Gent (Ghent & Destelbergen Social Service Centres)
How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? Which competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
The Ghent & Destelbergen social service centres employ occupational therapists who screen patients' homes and make adaptations in order to prevent patients from falling. Furthermore, they teach patients to use simple tools enabling them to live in their homes longer with a few minor interventions.
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Liever Thuis LM (mantelzorg)
How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? Which competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
Liever Thuis LM is a volunteer care association that organizes about 5 information sessions every year on relevant topics for individuals in need of care and carers: subsidies in home care, how to prevent falls … During these sessions both parties meet others who are in similar situations.
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P3 - Care Innovation: a coordinated and comprehensive care package
Describe your initiative
Offer a wide range of care services to older people in great need of care 24/7, with coordination by a case manager / care coach.
Which of these fields of Active and Healthy Ageing are addressed by your initiative?
Health literacy and patient empowerment, Personalized health management, Integrated care for chronic conditions, Independent living solutions.
If none of the above, answer here:
Please describe and explain the problem your initiative is trying to solve.
The introduction of an innovative range of care services (including night rounds, professional alert responses, emergency relief, individually scheduled day care, occupational therapist advice) aims to enable older people (aged 60 or older) to benefit from care in their own home for a longer time. A better harmonization of care services will guarantee the continuity of care for individuals in need of complex and/or long-term care. Intensive counselling of patients/clients by care coaches/case managers as well as optimum cooperation between all partners in charge of both care and carer support, should make it possible to postpone or avoid admission to nursing homes. If individuals/older people in need of care can benefit from quality care in the safe environment of their own home, this will keep health care expenses in check.
Please describe and explain the solution your initiative is implementing. What is innovative about your solution? What distinguishes your solution from other existing approaches to the problem?
This is an innovative project because a whole range of services is added to existing initiatives (home nursing, family care…). Unlike for the current offer of services, the care provided in this project is not limited to office hours (8AM-5PM), but can also be offered to individuals in need of care outside office hours and at the weekend: night rounds by professional carers between 10PM en 6AM, evening rounds by professional carers between 5PM and 10PM, weekend assistance. All services are coordinated by a care coach/case manager acting as a single point of contact. Consequently, individuals in need of care or carers only have to contact the care coach to start, adapt… care services. Care coaches monitor the evolution of patients' care needs from start to finish and make adjustments wherever necessary in consultation with patients, carers, general practitioners and the care and assistance providers involved. For individuals in need of care who cannot find their way in the current offer of care services, their care coach/case manager will be the person to talk to. Together with all care and assistance providers involved, the care coach/case manager will assist patients and carers from their first request for care to the final stage (admission to a nursing home or decease).
Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
An older individual in need of care can return home after a long stay in hospital thanks to the necessary support during the day, at night and at the weekend. Carers will be less worried and will decide to postpone admission to a nursing home and take care of their mother/father at home, with the necessary professional support: a home nurse will come by every day for medical care, a professional carer will take care of household chores and assistance with daily meals. At 8PM the evening round professional carer will come in to change individuals in need of care and put them to bed. At 11PM and at 4AM the night round professional carer will stop by to see if everything is all right and to change incontinence products. At the weekend too, individuals in need of care can count on a few hours of assistance so that carers have some time to relax. An occupational therapist has screened the home so that the chance of falling has been seriously reduced. Assistance is fully coordinated by a care coach/case manager. All care and assistance providers involved are kept up to date on possible adjustments of care organisation.
Please describe if and how your stakeholders (cooperation partners, funders, users, etc.) have been participating in defining the problem and developing the solution.
Our various partners have been active in first-line care for many years. Based on their experience they have a clear view of the problems experienced by older people in need of care and of the gaps in the offer of care services leading to early admission to a nursing home for many older people in need of care. Our partners have been involved in the preparation of the project at different levels: defining the target group, defining and developing care services… Carers were also consulted during the elaboration of the project, because without them home care would be impossible.
Has your solution been tested in trials, experimentations, or pilot projects? If yes, please describe the process and outcome.
No, our care services were not tested in advance since elaborating and testing a tailor-made range of services was part of the National Health Insurance Institute (RIZIV) call for projects.
How long has your solution been in operation?
for 1‐5 years
Select the stage that best applies to your solution
Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)
Please select the relationship between your solution and related solutions currently established in our society. Is your solution…
complementary (your solution is complementing existing solutions and compensating their weaknesses while not intending to substitute them)
Please try to identify and describe competing solutions implemented by other organizations addressing the same problem as you are. What challenges do these competing solutions pose to your success or growth?
Other organisations focus on only 1 or 2 services exclusively: only night care services, only care coordination… but do not offer 24/7 care services combined with a care coach for coordination. When allocating resources for the project the National Health Insurance Institute (RIZIV) took account of where projects were located. In Ghent there are a few other projects focusing on a part of care provision, but not on 24/7 support and an extensive range of care services. Taking into account the needs of the individual in need of care and the carer, the care coach/case manager will compose an individual, tailor-made care package. Services and staff from other projects will be involved at the request or in the interest of patients.
What barriers might hinder the success of your initiative? How do you plan to overcome them?
Flemish and federal rules and regulations are not entirely harmonised and make it difficult to optimise care services. The various types of care providers and their professional status are often defined by different regulations, which sometimes prevents flexible employment of these professionals. A concrete example: professional carers subject to Flemish regulations who provide assistance at the weekend cannot be replaced in case of illness… As a result, carers will have to be appealed to. However, some individuals in need of care do not have carers or they are unavailable (they are abroad…), which compromises the continuity of care provision.
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What are the specific professional backgrounds and competencies your team brings to the initiative?
Our team consists of:
- nurses (verpleegkundigen)
- professional carers (verzorgenden)
- nursing assistants (zorgkundigen)
- carers (mantelzorgers)
- occupational therapists
- social workers
- general practitioners
- geriatricians
- volunteers
who, each from their own training, background and experience contribute to the project objective: keeping older people in need of care at home longer with the necessary support.
Please describe your management or coordination structure in the initiative.
Project progress is monitored by a steering committee consisting of representatives of our various partners. Furthermore, a project report must be submitted to the National Health Insurance Institute (RIZIV) every six months. Within Solidariteit voor het Gezin the project is monitored by an administrative coordinator who is also in charge of contacts with the National Health Insurance Institute (RIZIV). Our care coaches ensure care coordination.
Please provide the total yearly budget in Euro that your initiative spends on implementing the solution.
European Union public funding
Economic return from own products/services
Foundations and philanthropy capital
Single donations from private individuals
Donations from private companies
Other (please specify)
1,5% (overhead costs of the organisation that are not subsidised through public funding)
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People aged 60 or older who need complex or long-term care after hospitalization or who suffer from serious health complaints, with an inevitable admission to a nursing home on the short term. The patient needs to meet one of the following conditions: FFA/FFB/FFC Katz-scale, FFB/FFC/FFCd Residential Katz-scale, suffering from dementia, 6 or 6+ on the Edmonton-scale.
We also target carers who need professional support to continue to deal with these challenging tasks and to avoid admission in a residential setting.
Please estimate the number of persons within your target group (users, clients, etc.) that you currently reach directly with your solution.
In which local/regional/national area(s) is the solution currently implemented?
What is the impact on your target group (users, clients) you want to generate?
Many older people (in need of care) are keen to stay at home, in a familiar environment, for as long as possible. In practice, however, a lot of older people live in their homes in awkward and unsafe circumstances because care services are not adapted to the concrete needs of this target group.
With this project we would like to enable older people in need of care to stay at home longer, in worthy and safe conditions, and to postpone and even avoid admission to a nursing home.
What is the wider impact on society you want to generate?
As our population grows older, society faces an enormous challenge. Health care costs are already a considerable part of the budget that can be spent. To keep health care and the impact of an ageing population payable, it is necessary to introduce innovative forms of care aimed at caring for older people at home longer and at providing residential care to older people who are in great need of care but for whom quality care at home is no longer possible. Since there already is a shortage of residential settings, the introduction of 24/7 support at home can remedy this situation.
What are the impacts on your target group you already achieved?
Since the start of the project, older people in need of care have been able to postpone admission to a residential setting with an average of 240 days. Thanks to different types of care (day and night), they have been able to stay in their homes, which would have been impossible without this project. Support by carers and close monitoring by our care coaches makes older people in need of care feel more supported at home, and their specific care needs are met. If attention is paid to quality and safety as well as affordability, older people could/can stay in their familiar environment longer.
How has the impact of your initiative been assessed?
Experience-based self-assessment (you assessed the impacts based on your experiences with the target group), Self-evaluation (you used qualitative and/or quantitative methods to assess impacts), External evaluation of impacts based on quantitative methods (quantitative measurement of impact indicators).
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Mission and strategy, Organisational structure, Information on team members.
Please indicate webpage or contact for obtaining the respective information.
What are your milestones for further developing, implementing, and establishing your initiative in the next three years? Please describe 1-3 milestones.
We would like to continue to improve the range of care services in this project based on the experience we have acquired in the past three years. Both the input of individuals in need of care and professional care providers is very valuable in this respect.
We intend to submit the modified project for a 4-year prolongation in the same region. Additionally, we will submit the improved project for a second region.
Based in Siem Reap, Cambodia, Anjali House is registered as a local Non-Governmental Organisation. Created in 2006 under the umbrella of the Angkor Photography Festival Association, Anjali provides refuge, care and education for nearly 80 under-privileged children between the ages of 4 and 16 years old.
Created on 05/22/2013 by ThuiszorgcentrumAntwerpen
Nightcare supports caregivers by sending someone that takes care of a person in the night or by foreseeing a place at a nursery home.
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Thuiszorgcentrum Antwerpen
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Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
Country where main implementer is located
How long has the main implementer been operating?
More than 5 years
Please provide a short description of the main implementer.
The Thuiszorg Centrum in Antwerp is an initiative that coöperates with a lot of services that help people to stay longer at home (family care, nurses, cleaning help,...). This implementer also gives information and education about home care, dementia and and multicultural home care situations. They also participate in a lot of projects (even international). Working with others they try to create a network where people can find each other easily. For example creating a social map for organisations with the theme Dementia.
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Non-profit/NGO/citizen sector organisation
How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? What competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
This partner brings supervision and gives medical support.
How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? Which competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
They provide the nurtures (people who come home and do household tasks).
How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? Which competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
They provide the nurtures (people who come home and do household tasks).
Website
htt://www.thuiszorgvleminckveld.be
How does this cooperation partner support the initiative? Which competencies and resources does this partner bring to the initiative?
They provide the nurtures (people who come home and do household tasks).
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Nightcare supports caregivers by sending someone that takes care of a person in the night or by foreseeing a place at a nursery home.
Which of these fields of Active and Healthy Ageing are addressed by your initiative?
Health literacy and patient empowerment, Personalized health management, Integrated care for chronic conditions, Assisted daily living, Independent living solutions, Social inclusion (intergenerational practice, work and volunteering), Age friendly buildings, environments, and communities.
If none of the above, answer here:
Please describe and explain the problem your initiative is trying to solve.
Caregivers are all the time in action for their loved ones, but sometimes it becomes too much to bare. Especially at night caregivers also need their sleep, but in some cases they don't get enough because the patient is wandering or has to go to the toilets, ..... Taking care of people during the night is a gap in home care and does only exist in professional settings where people have to stay for longer periods. There is also a lac in medical care in the night.
Please describe and explain the solution your initiative is implementing. What is innovative about your solution? What distinguishes your solution from other existing approaches to the problem?
Nightcare wants to support caregivers by providing a service where volunteers and professionals can take up to three nights from the caregivers. This way of working makes that the carrying capicity of the caregivers can be strengthened.
What is innovative about this approach is that there wasn't any service in Belgium that gave this kind of support to families at night. There are already a lot of services that offer help in the day, but the night is mostly not within the working hours, especially not if people want to stay home.
Nightcare gives the oppertunity for people to stay longer at home by providing this kind of help. They also forsee a medical permanence by nurses.
Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.
For example, when a person suffers from dementia, they may switch night and day because their orientation is disturbed. This tends to that the person can go wandering through the house, the caregiver is worried that something can happen with this person, maybe they get lost or they start cooking and forget that the stove is on. When someone can take over a night for supervision, the caregiver is sure that the person is safe and that someone looks after them during the night. The caregiver can sleep better at night and with a good sleep their carrying capicity will stay stronger.
Please describe if and how your stakeholders (cooperation partners, funders, users, etc.) have been participating in defining the problem and developing the solution.
There were a lot of meetings to concrete the problem and thinking about how to get people together to take care of others in the night. It started in 2002 and in 2003 there was money from the government to think the idea through. We introduced an idea for a pilot project and a lot of participants in the health care joined. Later came some actions in the media.
Has your solution been tested in trials, experimentations, or pilot projects? If yes, please describe the process and outcome.
In 2004 we started with 7 volunteers and 3 professional caregivers for the first nights. For the project someone wrote a masterthesis about it's working. When the pilot was over and had a good review there was more support from the government and the project recieved more hours that they could implement.
How long has your solution been in operation?
for more than 5 years
Select the stage that best applies to your solution
Scaling (the next step will be growing impact on a regional or even global scale)
Please select the relationship between your solution and related solutions currently established in our society. Is your solution…
independent (your solution is approaching a problem that has not been approached before)
Please try to identify and describe competing solutions implemented by other organizations addressing the same problem as you are. What challenges do these competing solutions pose to your success or growth?
There aren't other project that do exactly the same for an affordable price. There is the possibility for a short stay at a nursury home or a revalidation home, but that doensn't solve the problem in his whole. Another competing solution is that there are private nurses that can live at home with a client, but this costs a lot. That is why we want to give a service that is affordable.
What barriers might hinder the success of your initiative? How do you plan to overcome them?
We work with volunteers, and volunteers get sick or go on holiday or sometimes they stop with the project because they do not have the time anymore. A solution can be to find the right volunteers and train them well, also have enough volunteers so you can replace someone when he/she is sick or goes on holiday. Also it is nightwork, not a lot of people are enthusiastic to work at night, espacially in the health care sector because you don't earn a lot of money with doing this job. This is an political issue where we can't do a lot about.
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Alarming centre Wit-Gele Kruis: offers administrative and medical back-up during the night.
What are the specific professional backgrounds and competencies your team brings to the initiative?
The expertise from the coworkers is in the very different backgrounds. There are professionals in nurturing they had an theoretical education and a practical training, where they learn to handle the hygienic concerns, householding, nurturing, .... The nurses they have also had an theoretical and a practical education, where they learn about health care and medical concerns. The volunteers bring their lifelong competencies with them.
Please describe your management or coordination structure in the initiative.
Nightcare has a managment that exists out of the volunteerservice and the professional caregivers services. There is a coördinator that takes care of the planning and support of the professional caregivers and volunteers. The coördinator goes at home to see every client, before any nightcare can start up. This for reasons of quality and safety. Is our service the right match to the client's questions and needs?
Every 14 days there is a regional meeting for intervisions and trainings.
Please provide the total yearly budget in Euro that your initiative spends on implementing the solution.
National public funding
98% paid by our partners that share their subsidiary from the flemish government, and put it in the project budget.
European Union public funding
Economic return from own products/services
Foundations and philanthropy capital
Single donations from private individuals
Donations from private companies
Participation fees
1,7% membership partners, local community
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Nightcare offers a sollution for people in a palliative situation and/or has dementia and/or suffers from a chronical disease.
Please estimate the number of persons within your target group (users, clients, etc.) that you currently reach directly with your solution.
In which local/regional/national area(s) is the solution currently implemented?
Antwerp, Mechelen, Brussel, Kempen and Leuven
What is the impact on your target group (users, clients) you want to generate?
We want to increase the carrying capacity from the caregivers. We also want that the client can stay at home and be in good care and in safety environment.
What is the wider impact on society you want to generate?
To ensure that people can stay longer at home in a carrying and safe condition.
What are the impacts on your target group you already achieved?
The caregivers have the idea that they are being supported, that they don't have to do it alone. That their partner, parrent, friend is in good hands and can stay at home. The client is also content that he/she can stay at home and that there is good care.
How has the impact of your initiative been assessed?
Experience-based self-assessment (you assessed the impacts based on your experiences with the target group), Feedback-based self-assessment (you assessed the impacts based on feedback from the target group without using specific methods), Self-evaluation (you used qualitative and/or quantitative methods to assess impacts).
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Mission and strategy, Activity report, Working method and 'theory of change'.
Please indicate webpage or contact for obtaining the respective information.
What are your milestones for further developing, implementing, and establishing your initiative in the next three years? Please describe 1-3 milestones.
- Giving the cliënts qualitative and affordable help.
-We want a stable growth and an extend in other regions in Flanders
- We'd like to meet European partners working in the same field, and possibly with a similar approach to this challenge.
ARC is celebrating twenty years as an international leader in the study of East and Southeast Asia,undertaking fundamental interdisciplinary & disciplinary research into a wide range of social, political and economic dynamics within the region.The Centre’s objectives are to produce high quality academic research publications for international and domestic audiences; foster the development of high quality research graduates; and to constructively contribute to public policy debate and public understanding on issues concerning contemporary Asia.
CRES's aim is to become the country’s centre of excellence for natural resources and environmental studies.CRES is a focal point in providing leadership in the implementation of critical and strategic activities on biodiversity conservation, sustainable utilization of natural resources and environmental protection. CRES also promotes national and international collaboration in research, training, information dissemination and other activities in related areas.
With community health programmes in large geographical areas in Central and South Asia, as well as East Africa, and more than 200 health facilities including nine hospitals, the Aga Khan Health Services (AKHS) is one of the most comprehensive private not-for-profit health care systems in the developing world.
Syngenta's actions and products can help address one of the planet’s most challenging dilemmas: how to grow more crops from less resources. That is why their ambition is to bring greater food security in an environmentally sustainable way to an increasingly populous world by creating a worldwide step-change in farm productivity.Through deploying the world-class science,they aim to transform the way crops are grown and look beyond yield.
Takhleeq Foundation’s Mission:Working for the uplift of communities by reducing gender disparity,promoting peace and prosperity with basic facilities and social justice through interactive discourse for civil society”.TF's goal is To develop self reliance among the under privileged group and communities by raising the level of confidence and enhancing their capabilities through skill development and training”.
Conventional healthcare model is unsustainable in addressing the burden of chronic diseases, and this is a major reason for it. Our proposal is the creation of initial free Basic Preventative Health Package (BPHP) that has positive effects beyond the immediate users and is very cost-effective.
Created on 05/14/2013 by Arlinda Fety R
Vegetables are foods that contain nutrients needed by the body, but the supply is still contaminated by many chemicals. Farmer became a milestone in the change. YIS engaged in community development in the field of economic development, health and education.
Organization: Yayasan Insan Sembada
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YIS believed to be an experienced NGO in the field of community development and capacity building / training since 1974, especially in the areas of health, organic agriculture, peace building, economic development and education by using participatory approach and highlighting the importance of gender equality.
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Healthy vegetables on the slopes of Mount Merapi, Selo, Boyolali
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Idea (poised to launch)
This Entry is about (Issues)
Elevator Pitch
Vegetables are foods that contain nutrients needed by the body, but the supply is still contaminated by many chemicals. Farmer became a milestone in the change. YIS engaged in community development in the field of economic development, health and education.
Problem
Now, public aware the needs of vegetables in nutrition and health, but in market it much exposed to chemical pesticides and fertilizers. Selo, Boyolali District, located on the slopes of Mount Merapi, is the agriculture center of vegetables and distributed to various regions in Central Java. Excessive use of chemical can affect the health of farmers, and consumers, e.g miscarriage in pregnancy, disturb the lungs, liver, cancer,and hypothyroidism.
Solution
Encourage farmers to produce healthy vegetables, will be done through:
- Campaign using the traditional approach of local culture, contains about the production and consumption of healthy vegetables. by targeting vegetable farmers especially women farmers because women have a big role in the household and children. It will also affect to vegetable consumers residing in other areas.
- Training, Train farmers on how to manage a healthy and organic farming. provide guidance on how to manufacture organic fertilizers and pesticides. Farmers are expected to perform eco-friendly agriculture to produce healthy vegetables independently and sustainable.
- Demonstration plot, organic vegetable farm as a model for vegetable farmers in District Selo.
Example
Farmers group gathered for get counseling and training on organic farming and the benefits for the environment and health. Farmers are also encouraged and assisted to make organic fertilizers and pesticides so the production cost is cheaper than using chemicals. With the skills, farmers can apply them in garden respectively.
Healthy and organic vegetables with better quality than conventional farms will solve the problem of scarcity of healthy organic vegetables at the market. With this change the farmer families and the wider community will be able to consume healthy organic vegetables, easier, cheaper and improve the economic welfare of vegetable farmers.
Impact
With increased knowledge and skills of vegetable farmers about environmentally friendly agriculture, so farmers can understand, practice and produce healthy vegetables for themselves, their families and the wider consumer. Besides farmers contribute to protecting the environment by using organic fertilizers and pesticides and decrease the cost production so it will improve the welfare economic of farmers.
Today, organic vegetables still costly due to limited availability in the market, so the fact, organic vegetable consumption can only be made by high-income people. With the increasing number of farmers who produce organic vegetables, it will increase the availability of organic and healthy vegetables in the market so that the price is more affordable by the whole society.
Marketplace
As center area of producing vegetables, vegetable farmers in the Selo sub-district have not been touched by mentoring program of development organic vegetable horticulture area, either by the Department of Agriculture and Food Security Agency. In addition, the introduction of environmentally friendly agricultural program is not only to preserve the environment, but also linked to the impact of improved health for farmers and consumers in other areas. More value of the program is the participation of women, it is also an embodiment of the MDG's points 3 which Promote gender equality and empower
Sustainability Plan
Through mentoring synergistic patterns collaboration with government and private agencies that have same vision and mission can expected speeds adoption technology innovation, improve marketing and institutional aspects in the development of organic vegetable cultivation. The project area are the slopes of Mount Merapi, has tourism potential that can be used as organic agro-tourism for income generation and sustainability of the agricultural area
Founding Story
Yayasan Insan Sembada/YIS (formerly Yayasan Indonesia Sejahtera) is a NGO that has vision "A trustworthy professional partner to strengthen the national self sufficiency towards the national idealism". With mission is Promote the models and development concepts to support the achievement of national self sufficiency. Selo is an area on the slopes of Mount Merapi which produces vegetables and distributed to other areas. But it is still contaminated by the excessive use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides that dangerous for environment and heath. So, we want to change the behavior farmer to produce healthy vegetables and eco-friendly farming system.
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Healthy environments., Nutrient-rich farming, Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.
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Healthy environments, Nutrient-rich farming, Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
Selo, is known and popular in Central java about their vegetables and the beautiful view. Soil in there, is already fertile because it has been exposed to volcanic ash from Mount Merapi, so it does not need excessive chemical fertilizers. Supported with a beautiful view from the location itself is to be the main attraction to develop as an eco-friendly tourism potential agriculture. By this program, we could also invite women to cultivate organic vegetables into a nutritious food ingredient for consumption and resale in the form of vegetables flour as a food additive for the kids.
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Vegetables are foods that contain nutrients needed by the body, but the supply is still contaminated by many chemicals. Farmer became a milestone in the change. YIS engaged in community development in the field of economic development, health and education.
Created on 05/14/2013 by Adina Goerke
Reality Gives and FMCH (Foundation for Mother and Child Health) believes that early health care and balanced nutrition are critical for a child to reach his /her full potential and dreams of a world where the potential of each child is not limited by poor early health or malnutrition.
Organization: Reality Gives and FMCH (Foundation for Mother and Child Health)
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FMCH received the Certificate of Merit by the AmeriCares Spirit of Humanity Awards.
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Reality Gives and FMCH Dharavi Nutrition Program
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Elevator Pitch
Reality Gives and FMCH (Foundation for Mother and Child Health) believes that early health care and balanced nutrition are critical for a child to reach his /her full potential and dreams of a world where the potential of each child is not limited by poor early health or malnutrition.
Problem
43% of Indian children below the age of five years are underweight because of chronic under-nutrition (UNICEF). Incorrect infant feedings practises, lack of knowledge about weaning, using packaged foods rich in sugar and salt as snacks to feed hungry toddler are some of the causes that can lead to chronic under-nutrition in urban slum children. Malnutrition can cause morbidity and limited cognitive and physical growth.
Solution
To address the issue of malnutrition in Dharavi, one of Asia's biggest slum, the community-based NGO Reality Gives collaborates with FMCH, an organisation dedicated to the eradication of malnutrition in children ages 0-6 years from economically under –privileged families, since August 2012. To reduce malnutrition, FMCH activities are focused on the most important determinants of malnutrition. This means emphasizing disease control and prevention activities, education to improve domestic child-care and feeding practices like one on one nutritional counseling, cooking demos, home visits and micronutrient supplementation.
Example
The little boy Shlok, born in the slums of Mahalaxmi, Mumbai, weighed only 3.3kg when he came to FMCH's first program site at 3 months old . He was lethargic, thin and in and out of hospital. Over two months FMCH have monitored and supported him and educated his mother about nutrition health care. Now, at 5 months old he weighs 5kg, is alert, active and developmentally on track for his age.
Shlok is a good example of how FMCH's activities can impact a child's development. With Reality Gives support and FMCH's competence we can reach out to similar cases in Dharavi and raise awareness amongst the mothers of the communities.
Impact
Since August 2012 87 kids have been registered at the FMCH Nutrition program in Dharavi. The team reported many individual success stories but an extensive evaluation won't be possible before completing one year of program implementation. We were FMCH's first experiment at partnering with other organisations and reaching their expertise beyond their sites at another slum area in Mumbai. Now they have developed a formal training program and have trained community health workers in Nasik, a nearby rural area. So our support for this pilot project has been a larger inspiration for the development of their organisation - and has a much larger impact than just our site.
Marketplace
Instead of fighting malnutrition by handing out nutritious food to children in our slum community, we tackle the issue at its roots - the missing knowledge of the mothers! Many mothers are very young and had to move to the city after marriage, leaving their female role models behind. They never got the chance to learn how to care for a child. FMCH offers cooking demonstration, handing out the low cost recipes to the mother, provides intensive counseling on every child's habits and needs and prescribes individual diet schedules. This way the mother can apply her new knowledge on every child.
Sustainability Plan
The costs of the Nutrition Initiative in Dharavi are very low because we focus on awareness raising instead of treatment. In the future we hope to implement FMCH's formal community health workers training program in Dharavi to incorporate local women to conduct the program with the support of Reality Gives and FMCH. This way we will also be able to reach out to more women at lower costs.
Founding Story
The Reality Gives Community Centre exists since 2007. Last year a women came to the space to talk about her issues. Her two year old daughter was severely malnourished, weighed about the same as a one year old, was pretty immobile and the mother had said that she had a heart problem that needed surgery. She also said that she and her husband were not interested in having the surgery because she was a girl child and they just wanted to be rid of the burden she was placing on them. Before we could go for a home-visit and decide on what to talk about(within one week) the girl passed away.
We decided we need to raise awareness of EVERY child's potential and how simple it can be to care for their development.
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Human wellness and vitality.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
If we would have a greater capacity we could reach out to more slum communities, within and beyond Dharavi. We could also expand from the nutrition to a higher level health program to ensure the well-being and healthy development of every child in Dharavi. That would include regular physician visits, vaccination and de-worming camps and micronutrient supplementation.
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Created on 05/14/2013 by Nicholas Luther
Kwik Khana aims to reduce food insecurity in urban slums worldwide by providing people in need with nutritious, affordable and convenient food. Our current model has been developed forDharavi, Mumbai, one of the largest urban slums in the world, and we hope to expand to slums worldwide.
Organization: Kwik Khana
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Hult Prize 2013 Global Event, Top Ten Finalist; recognized as one of the top ten social entrepreneurship ideas out of more than seventy video submissions by public votes
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Kwik Khana aims to reduce food insecurity in urban slums worldwide by providing people in need with nutritious, affordable and convenient food. Our current model has been developed forDharavi, Mumbai, one of the largest urban slums in the world, and we hope to expand to slums worldwide.
Problem
We live in a world where 925 million suffer from hunger. Each day, people suffer in both health and happiness due to lacking easy access to affordable and nutritious food. Food insecurity rural areas is widely-known. But tackling the issue in urban slums requires a different approach.
Solution
All Kwik Khana products are contained within a revolutionary flexible packaging system that contains two compartments separated by a resin seal. One compartment contains the solid ingredients, Kwik Khana’s fortified food blend, while the adjacent compartment contains clean water. When the resin seal separating the two compartments is broken by hand, the solid and liquid ingredients mix creating a porridge-like consistency familiar to diets around the world.
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Nutrient-rich farming.
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This innovation also has a Project Page where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Project: Happy Healthy Home .
Created on 05/14/2013 by Raj Jani
Happy Healthy Home is a holistic solution to provide vital nutrients to a family or household in a manner that controls daily health damages and prevents from falling ill. This comes in a bouquet of products & services that are based upon nature-care and are free from any artificial substances.
Organization: Happiness Stores Private Limited
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Co-founder Mr. Tulsi Bhatia has received Best MSME National Award in the year 2010.
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Happy Healthy Home is a holistic solution to provide vital nutrients to a family or household in a manner that controls daily health damages and prevents from falling ill. This comes in a bouquet of products & services that are based upon nature-care and are free from any artificial substances.
Problem
Damages occur in our lives on a daily basis due to unsafe food, wrong eating habits coupled with stress, lack of exercise, radiation & polluted external environment. There is a sole reliance on cure rather than on prevention, which leads to a flourishing Pharmaceuticals industry, often mistaken as Healthcare industry. Mushrooming of spurious healthcare products & overuse of chemicals further aggravate the plethora of problems faced by mankind!
Solution
Our products offer resistance to environmental factors and maintain natural health coupled with a definite boost to body's immunizing capabilities to fight diseases. We offer affordable healthcare solutions for all population segments as they are made from nature's bounty in terms of herbs, medicinal plants and concoctions. Small ailments like joint & muscular pains, liver and kidney damages, digestion/metabolism disorders etc. get corrected with the use of our products & by undergoing alternative therapy treatment. With our mission as 'Health for All', we provide complete healthcare solution coupled with product promotion, health awareness/education, training and support services based upon 'Everything Natural' theme.
Example
While on one hand our products for consumption like aloe-vera juice and seven-herb juice provide vitality and all round nutrition to human body, the external applications of products like aloe-gel and soap for instance are carving niche in the marketplace, as can be verified by numerous testimonials available with us. On the other hand our alternative therapy services like electric accupressure bed & techniques are proving path-breaking in terms of their impact on individual's health and fitness.
Impact
Our work has started generating tremendous response as more & more users of our products and services have reported significant improvement on their wellness & fitness. However our goal is to achieve a significant impact on the health of the poor and vulnerables, a large number of who fall back into Poverty trap because of their ill-affordability of medical care especially on account of expenses on critical healthcare in their households. We plan to reduce monthly medical expenses in a typical Indian household by 50% and food savings on account of less expenditure on food purchases by another 15% of their monthly expenditure as we guarantee a significant reduction in both food and medicine expenditure against the use of our products and services, We will reach out to about 150000 households through 60 outlets in next 2 years, which means a saving of Rs. 2.3 million (@1500 per HH) alone.
Marketplace
The Indian healthcare industry valued at US$ 65 billion worth of healthcare spend (2012) is estimated to reach US$ 100 billion by 2015, growing 20 per cent year-on-year, as per rating agency Fitch. India currently faces a chronic shortage of healthcare infrastructure especially in rural/peri-urban areas and as per PWC, India needs 1.75 million new beds by the year 2025. The annual pharma market in India is valued at USD 20 billion and is growing at over 15.3% per annum. Even if we assume 1% of these two supplied by unconventional options, our target market is over 1000 crore rupees annually.
Sustainability Plan
Wellness or to remain healthy is the single most important need of the mankind. Added to it is the factor of affordability which makes or breaks the appeal of certain products. With the virtue of operating in affordable healthcare and wellness segment, our sustainability is automatically ensured. Further since one third of our products are made in-house and there is an equal emphasis on nature therapy, we are in strong position to sustain self.
Founding Story
Being ambitious is directly proportional to being healthy as both of us co-founders have felt it strongly as we embarked on our journey to do something together. As we wanted to do number of things together, often our health used to take a toll and therefore we decided to first tackle itself before moving further with our plans, without realising that 'Healthcare and Wellness' itself was an overpowering idea that needed a push. Hence the concept came into being.
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Full nourishment foods, Human wellness and vitality.
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Healthy environments, Nutrient-rich farming.
How specifically would this added capacity help you improve the quality, efficiency, or sustainability of your existing product or service?
Since we have to create mass awareness around wellness and disease-free life, we would like to take-up yoga camps, sensitization-health camps etc. eventually, which would work go a long way to build our brand. Also 'health foods' will be a separate vertical in our store hence investing in nutrient rich farming is an obvious vertical backward integration to ensure availability of healthy inputs e.g. organic and safe foods.
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Considering the flow of nutrients from ecosystems to soil to farms to food to communities, what are the barriers to achieving vitality for people and the planet?
Other barriers you have identified
In your view, what developments need to happen in order to help overcome those barriers and produce a more nutrient rich and vital public and planet?
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What do you consider the most promising trends or evidence that indicates that the developments you described are emerging? Please elaborate.
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Reality Gives and FMCH (Foundation for Mother and Child Health) believes that early health care and balanced nutrition are critical for a child to reach his /her full potential and dreams of a world where the potential of each child is not limited by poor early health or malnutrition.
