Conference Program
Day 1: Thursday 17th September 2015
08.30
Registration, Coffee and Posters
09.10
Welcome
Evangelos Kekatos, Vice Mayor of Social prone, Kefalonia island
Georgios Koumanakos, Executive manager, Frontida Zois, GREECE
Georgios Koumanakos, Executive manager, Frontida Zois, GREECE
09.20
Introduction of the ErgocareBank Project
Lecturers: Leena Lahdesmaki-Makinen and Soile Tikkanen both from The Federation of Education at Jokilaaksot, Oulainen Vocational College, FINLAND
09.40
Home Care Across Europe, Current Structure and Future Challenges
Dr. Wienke Boerma, NIVEL, Utrecht, NETHERLANDS
10.30
Physical Risk Assessment for Health and Aged Care
How to find risks? Introduction of different methods, Introduction of Technical Report ISO/TR 12296
Dr. Leena Tamminen-Peter; Oy Ergosolutions BC Ab, FINLAND
11.30
Lunch, Posters and Exhibition
13.00
The role of physical exercises in the good health and prevention of falls in third age
Christina Makri, physiotherapist, OTAGO training instructor, GREECE
13.45
Adoption of Ergonomic Innovations for Injury Prevention
Dr. Bo Glimskar, Royal Institute of Technology, SWEDEN
14.30
Coffee
15.00
Workshop: Trends and Challenges in Home Care/Nursing Home Care in SWEDEN, FINLAND, ESTONIA and GREECE
Every partner gives a 10-15 min. presentation to illustrate the situations in his own country, the prevention ideas and ergonomic solutions
16.15
Summary of the Day, by the Chairman
19.30
Dinner
Day 2: Friday 18th September 2015
9.00
Welcome by the Chairman
Prof. Tore J. Larsson, Royal Institute of Technology, SWEDEN
09.15
Patient Handling Guidelines for Home Care and Aged Care in Holland
MSc, BSc Hanneke Knibbe, LOCOmotion Research and Consultancy in Healthcare, THE NETHERLANDS
10.15
Ergonomic Solutions - the ErgocareBank - videos
PT. Dip. Ergonomics Kay Wilson, Karolinska University Hospital, SWEDEN
11.00
Knowledge and Skills of Safe Patient Handling Training in both Vocational Colleges and Work Places
- Introduction of the Finnish Ergonomic Patient Handling Card scheme
Dr. Leena Tamminen-Peter, Oy Ergosolutions BC Ab, FINLAND
- Good practices of ergonomics in vocational education
Lecturers Leena Lahdesmaki-Makinen and Soile Tikkanen, The Federation of Education at Jokilaaksot, Oulainen Vocational College, FINLAND
12.00
Lunch, Posters and Exhibition
13.30
Panel Session Summarizing What Needs to be Done
Chairman. Prof. Tore J. Larsson, Royal Institute of Technology, SWEDEN
14.30
Coffee
15.00
Summary of the ErgocareBank Conference
Chairman. Prof. Tore J. Larsson, Royal Institute of Technology, SWEDEN
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