COVID19 has disproportionally affected older people, impacting on the provision of Long-Term Care dramatically over recent months. During the period of confinement mortality in care homes significantly increased and social contact with older people was restricted in order to protect…
EuroHealthNet launched an online guide for financing health promoting services. Good health and wellbeing is a value in itself but also arguably our greatest social and economic asset. Relatively few resources however, go into fostering this asset by promoting health…
iCONNECT - Intergenerational CONtact between studeNts and people with dEmentia through CreaTive education is a project under the umbrella of Erasmus+ KA2 - Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices And KA203 - Strategic Partnerships for higher education…
Zurich, June 24, 2020 We+Care, the Swiss care coordination pilot project received funding from the EU’s AAL innovation promotion program for a three year international research and development project called “Quality of Life at the End of Life”, which aims to improve…
The AAL Programme has opened its funding Call 2020 under the title of ‘Healthy Ageing with the Support of Digital Solutions’ with the submission deadline on 24 August, 2020. The Call supports innovative, transnational and multi-disciplinary collaborative projects. The proposed…
How are family caregivers coping with the current Corona pandemic since its outbreak? What particular social and psychological challenges do they face? What has changed in the provision of day-to-day care and support? What can be done to help family…
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic changed Europe and the world within the blink of an eye. It will leave a lasting impact on the way we live and work together and it came at a time when Europe had…
Vous avez pu constater, au fil des dernières semaines, que l’ASBL belge Aidants Proches n’a pas ménagé sa peine pour vous informer sans relâche, aidants et professionnels, dans les circonstances si particulières que nous traversons. Fidèle à sa défense et…
In the Netherlands, the annual Week of young caregivers was celebrated from the first to the 7th of June. This year due to Covid-19 the activities were mainly held online. Because of that, an extra attention week Young caregivers will…
While women appear to be more resilient than men to COVID-19 in terms of health outcomes, that is not the case when it comes to the economic and social fallout. Measures taken by governments to control the spread of the…
