The representatives of the Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Danish caregiver associations founded the Nordic Carers Forum on March 17. in Oslo. The forum was concerned about the future of family care, because the number of elderly people is growing strongly and care…
Please find here the information from the Commission about the Report by the High-Level Group on the future of social protection and of the welfare state in the EU, with a view to the EPSO Council meeting on March 13, 2023.…
Now available: a free online course for health and social care professionals working with older people and their informal carers developed by the Erasmus+ SINCALA project partnership under the coordination of the University of Tartu (Estonia). The goal of the course…
28 February 2023 from 9:00 - 10:30 CET The webinar is organised in the framework of “KEN” – an EU-funded project that has established a Korea-EU SCO network. The objective of the webinar is to bring together European and Korean…
On 7 February 2023 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released a report titled “Time for better care at the end of life”. The report shows that with more chronic conditions and an ageing population, a growing share…
Today, ahead of World Cancer Day on 4 February, the Commission and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) present the first Country Cancer Profiles under the European Cancer Inequalities Registry for all EU Member States, Norway and Iceland. The Profiles show…
Pro Aidants becomes Swiss Carers - a name change that is more than just a new name. In recent years, the association has specialised in supporting family carers in Switzerland. Together with partners, the advocacy organization has successfully improved the…
On January 20th, Joana Vicenté, a doctoral student within the Informal Carers, Care and Caring Group, headed up by Professor Elizabeth Hanson at Linnaeus University in Sweden, successfully defended her thesis entitled “Combining informal care with paid work – An…
Towards the end of 2022, there was a potentially landmark decision of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in relation to the rights of unpaid/family carers. The case of Maria Simona Bellini v. Italy (3 October 2022, Communication…
In recent years, there has been growing international recognition of the term ‘young carers’ – children and young people up to 25 who help care for or support someone (often a family member) because of an illness, disability, frailty or…
