Good health and well-being is a key indicator and a precondition for sustainable development, allowing people to enjoy fulfilling lives, receive education and be productive members of society. In contrast, the burden of disease has high economic, social and individual…
The latest update of the MISSOC information (as of January 2024) on social protection systems in all EU Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland is now available. MISSOC (Mutual Information System on Social Protection) is an indispensable online information source…
The World Health Organization (WHO) today formally designated the EngAGE Centre for Research in Ageing at Trinity College Dublin as the new WHO Collaborating Centre for Longitudinal Studies on Ageing and the Life-course. The Collaborating Centre will play a crucial role…
“Collaboration for Care” was a knowledge exchange project which ran for seven months until April 2024. A range of partners working to improve support to informal carers in Scotland, Wales and the EU (under the umbrella of Eurocarers) wanted to…
We are excited to announce the upcoming 3rd Young carers Symposium in France, to be held on the 10th of October 2024 in Paris. Organized by Association nationale Jeunes AiDants Ensemble and our partner from the JAID Research Project, hosted…
Carers UK and WPI Economics have recently published a new report on Poverty and financial hardship of unpaid carers in the UK. The report, which was funded by arbdn Financial Fairness Trust, reveals the scale of poverty amongst unpaid carers…
After advocating for it, Norway got its first Carers strategy 2020-2025. The strategy was aiming to build up competence about carers in Norway as well as 36 point of actions that should be implemented or evaluated. One of the vital…
Eurocarers participated in the ICIC24 conference in Belfast last April. The organiser published a blog post about the session our colleagues Giulia Lanfredi and Claire Champeix took part in: Family carers care for loved ones including children and adults with additional…
This summer, the Chamber of Caregivers of Slovakia has been actively addressing the growing crisis in the caregiving sector. In May 2024, they partnered with the Platform of Families of Children with Disabilities to strengthen the rights of caregivers at…
Our member Carers UK has published recently a new report, ‘Taking the next step for working carers - introducing a new right to paid Carer’s Leave’. It calls on the UK Government to legislate to introduce a new statutory right…
