Project leader: Regional Planning Association Grosses Walsertal (6 communities)

Contact: REGIO Social Care Committee (community project of the REGIO social care committee with the nursing care society, the mobile home healthcare services, doctors and therapists and the communities of the valley)

Project period: 2006

The Biosphere Park Grosses Walsertal as social network. “We are creating provision for elderly and infirm people appropriate to the valley and its specific circumstances based on our mission statement.” In other words, we want to guarantee the best possible human and individual provision in the region. This is the goal of the project which should achieve the following:

• higher quality of life for older people
• optimal case progress through improved communication
• and case management
• cost effectiveness
• decrease in medical expenses
• reduced capital costs for in-patient beds
• new forms of purchasing and work opportunities