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project info
Start date: 1 August 2023
End date: 31 July 2025
funding
Fund: European Social Fund Plus (ESF+)
Total budget: 379 435,00 €
EU contribution: 227 661,00 € (60%)
programme
Programming period: 2021-2027
European Commission Topic
European Commission Topic

Paths to co-management in elderly care teams

At present, there is no attraction or grip strength in Finnish elderly care. It´s management culture is traditional and bureaucratic. Personnel´s possibilities to affect to their work and planning customer services have been minor. Professionals in elderly care do not experience their work as valuable and significant. That is why there is need for a new model of management – co-management in teams. The need to change the management has come out from North-Savo´s Wellbeing Services County, Attendo and Pohjois-Savon Muisti. Co-management in teams means that work is organized and decisions are made at teams. Teams in elderly care organizations have a mandate and a responsibility to plan and make work with customers more independently than at present. Teams supervisor´s role changes to coach and support the team. Organizations in elderly care need knowledge about co-management and development expertise to implement the change. The aim of this project is to produce information and help teams individually to move forward. The project provides organisations with a goal-oriented and controlled development structure when selected pilot teams transit to co-management. The transition will expand to other teams in organizations after the project when experiences and results of this project are to be seen. The aim of this project is to build alternative pathways for the transition of elderly care organisations to community-based co-management orientation. The aim is to develop a new model of change management that starts with the development needs arising from the internal motivation of the personnel and the reality of the work communities. As a result of the project, the partner organisations' pilot teams have developed their operations to be community-driven. Changes are reflected in the indicators of the functionality of co- management. Team members' well-being at work has improved and increased their commitment to work, workplace and the sector of elderly care. The work of the leaders has evolved towards a coaching approach. As a result of the project, the management of organisations will make plans and decisions on how to move to co-management orientation at the level of the entire organisation. The different paths to co-management orientation are described in the Paths to co-management in elderly care -guide. The guide is used in partner organisations and organisations of elderly care nationwide. In the long term, the changes will be reflected in the activities of partner organisations and their management. The meaningfulness of the work will be strengthened and the operations will become smoother. The impacts of the teams co-management model on customer work are/ will be positively reflected, for example, in customer feedback and the quality of nursing. In the long term, the economic impact of co-management approach will be more pronounced in organisations. The organisations involved in the project will become examples of how elderly work can be better organised and managed. The attraction and grip power of the organisations involved in the project will be strengthened.

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