The Scottish carer organisation VOCAL - Voice of Carers Across Lothian - have taken further steps for mainstreaming carers in and around Edinburgh, Scotland’s Capital City. As part of a corporate partnership with Edinburgh’s transport network Lothian Buses - who employ 2,500…
At the beginning of 2022, hopes were high that the Covid-19 pandemic was on the ebb and that the European Union (EU) would be able to focus again on the main challenge of this century: how to proactively tackle the…
The world’s B2B meeting place for Ageing Well innovation will take place on the 18 and 19 of September in the Palais des Festivals in Cannes. The SilverEco & Ageing Well International Festival it’s six events in one Festival :…
As economies begin to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, labour shortages are becoming increasingly evident despite the impact of the war in Ukraine on energy and commodity prices. These include shortages exacerbated by the crisis in some sectors and professions…
This is an important step forward for all patients who require regular care in Belgium. From now on, there will be no need to systematically go through a nurse: the informal carers will be able to carry out certain care…
From November 14th to 18th, 2022, as part of the Erasmus+ KA1 project “Empowering adult educators who support family carers”, members of our association’s board of directors and adult educators visited the European Federation Eurocarers, the Belgian Brain Council organization,…
On the 15th and 16th of December 2022, the partners of the project Genetic counseling in European universities: The case of neurodegenerative diseases (GECONEU) met in Heidelberg, Germany for the 2nd Transnational Project Meeting. Also, a Hybrid Symposium in the…
Nordic Carers Forum, a co-Nordic network, was founded on the 17th of March in Oslo by representatives of the Norwegian, Danish, Finnish and Swedish caregiver associations. Informal care associations of the Nordic countries are concerned about the future of caregiving,…
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…
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