ELSA aims at collecting towards original data useful for individuals and organisations.

The innovative aspects are:

a) the idea of exchanging training and information among professionals and caregivers, usually not sharing training on the care of frail elderly;

b) the idea of collecting personal experiences and accounts not only from relatives but also from professionals, usually involved only in relation to their professionals skills;

c) the use of videos, photos, accounts, short interviews, books reviews made by the project's participants, on themes such as the care of frail older people and the individual and emotional experiences lived by relatives who already went through this experience.

After having collected the videos, photos, texts produced in the various countries the Partners created four social network interfaced with Facebook and Youtube for creating social networks in four languages open to professionals and relatives, where they will find training, information, role models, peer support.