Pflegeschätze (Care treasures)

Zeichnung einer Schatztruhe mit Glühbirne. darunter der Schriftzug: Pflegeschätze (Image: 2024 Pflegeschätze)

Discovering and sharing inventions and ideas from everyday life with children who require care: Identifying, visualizing, and transferring family innovations from everyday life with children who require care. Short title: Care Treasures

Parents of children in need of care are often confronted with a care situation unprepared. Parents who have been caring for a long time, on the other hand, have built up a wealth of experience in coping with everyday life centered around care over the years. However, this knowledge is not formalized and has been inaccessible until now.

Caring families want to work with researchers and other affected parties to uncover the “treasures of knowledge” of self-organized care and make these valuable experiences accessible on an interactive platform. The aim is to enable young caring families to find relief and participate in everyday care as well as in vacation and leisure activities.

At a Glance

Category Description
Research project Discovering and sharing inventions and ideas from everyday life with children who require care: Identifying, visualizing, and transferring family innovations from everyday life with children who require care. Short title: Care Treasures  
Management Prof. Dr. Isabel Zorn 
Faculty Faculty of Applied Social Sciences 
Institute Institute for Media Research and Media Education 
Persons involved The project is supported by a citizens' advisory board made up of stakeholders with links to self-organized family care.  
Partners Munich University of Applied Sciences | Technical University of Darmstadt | bvkm – Federal Association for Physically and Multiple Disabled People | ProLog Therapie- und Lernmittel GmbH (publishing house)  
Sponsors BMBF | Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Funding line: Technology-based innovations for care communities to improve the quality of life and health of informal caregivers  
Duration Project phase I | August 15, 2022 – August 14, 2023
Project phase II | October 1, 2023 – March 31, 2026 
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