Dear Ministers, Re: The importance for Member States to adopt and implement, without reservation, the proposed Council Recommendation on access to affordable high-quality long-term care On 7 September, the European Commission put forward an ambitious and much-awaited EU Care Strategy,…
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) calls on the EU and Member States to implement more concrete measures to support the health, housing and financial needs of the growing number people taking on long-term caregiving responsibilities of a family…
Carers UK has recently published their State of Caring 2022 report: the largest and most comprehensive survey of unpaid carers, with over 12,400 current carers taking part this year. It is clear from carers’ responses that the cost-of-living crisis has…
GAMIAN-Europe, the Global Alliance of Mental Illness Advocacy Networks, recently held a workshop on the comorbidity of cancer and depression for both patients and carers. The workshop was held to understand better the perspectives of this comorbidity from the patients…
Great tool and food for thoughts, our Swiss colleagues from Pro Aidants have recently published an online tools to support carers of the canton of Grisons calculate. This free and anonymous calculator will help them see what benefits they might be…
Alzheimer Hellas participates in the Game4CoSkills project which aims to develop a new and innovative mobile game for adults with cognitive dysfunctions and cognitive impairment such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down Syndrome, Mild Cognitive Impairment and mild or moderate Intellectual…
Our Norwegian colleagues from Parorenalliansen report on a survey on their Norwegian National Carers Strategy: Background: In Norway we got at National informal carers survey in May 2022. It is based on the results of asking informal carers of four…
To mark European Carers Day, Family Carer’s Ireland today launched a paper on ‘Gender Dimensions of Care – An Irish Perspective’. This paper explores the current gender care gap in Ireland, the evolving family unit and how this is changing…
“Inequality in unpaid care provision have deep effects on the well-being of women throughout their life-span”, warns Maciej Kucharczyk, Secretary-General of AGE Platform Europe. “Older women face an average pension gap of 27% vis-à-vis men on average in the EU;…
Equality Care Should be Shared and Fair This European Carers Day, Eurocarers and its members are calling on all European governments to tackle gender equality in caregiving, shine a light on the role of informal carers and highlight the…
