Healthcare

A project to help keep elderly people living at home safe and happy.

A community centre used support from the rural development programme to enhance its services and premises in order not to exclude people with Dementia.

The project made an Ekso Bionics Exoskeleton available to patients in rural areas. This enables community rehabilitation of patients recovering from spinal injuries, strokes and brain injuries.

The Walloon RDP supports the provision of quality healthcare services for ageing inhabitants of rural areas in Belgium.

This project created free outdoor recreational infrastructure for a range of age groups and motivated them to take up physical activity through workshops and presentations.

De Putter is an example of how small communities that are facing a declining level of services  can improve their livelihood and promote social cohesion.

On farm care is a new type of service which can help farms diversify while significantly contributing to a more natural rehabilitation process for people in need.

An Austrian farm used EAFRD funding to convert the holding into a horse-assisted therapy centre for children and adults with special needs.

Local authorities in France’s Midi-Pyrénées region used EAFRD funding to develop a medical centre to improve the quality of health services particularly for the elderly.

The ‘Mallu does the rounds’ project provided an easy-to-access medical service to people in rural areas of Finland using the Mallu bus.