This output served to provide policy recommendations by outlining and offering innovative, up-to-date and effective ICT policies in care homes for Turkish and partner countries Ministries and Educational Authorities.
This was important (elements of innovation) considering that there is limited knowledge about policy and practice regarding employing ICT in care homes in Europe and Turkey. The findings from this study were expected to stimulate policy development by addressing national legislations such as Education and Health Ministers of the Republic of Turkey, Austria, Spain and İtaly and relevant professional entities in the EU and Worldwide. Our policy recommendations served to inform people who are faced with policy choices on issues related to care homes and inform them about how research-based evidence can help to use ICT services in care homes effectively.
We followed EU specific rules and best examples of policy recommendation guidelines to create this output, where we created this output in the most appropriate written format possible. This output was around 50 pages long, where we included policy recommendations for each partner country, along with considering EU in general.
We expected various impacts where policy and decision makers, adult education authorities, ICT companies and many educational authorities will be impacted in a way that they will learn policies of ICT systems in care homes, which will develop their professionalism and affect their decisions for future policies in leading care home sector and lives of elderly people. Also, considering the number of policy makers in care home and ICT sectors, the impacts would spread across disciplines and support policies to reach high-level standards, based on scientific knowledge, up-to-date and innovative systems. Further, if our results may lead policy developments and contribute on the operational skills of the partnering countries in care home sector, a large number of people will achieve high standard care service policies and therefore improve policy legislations of the partnering countries.
In terms of transferability, we made sure to write this output in a simple language, understandable by various policy and decision makers, in the partner’s languages and in English. With this policy development output, many countries in EU will benefit by having such policy recommendations where they can transfer this new system into their own country context based on their own needs and preferences. Therefore, this output’s transferability
potential would show a promising feature. Also, by publishing this output in the partners’ languages and in English, millions of people would be able to benefit from this output’s results as well.
There was no difference between what was planned and what was implemented.
