Eurofound just released the article “Shaping the future of long-term care: A good outcome will benefit all”, which calls for an EU strategy on carers: An ageing Europe and rising public expenditure on long-term care have signalled for some time…
Incontinence is still one of the most strongly tabooed health topics in our societies. Yet, it is a widespread condition which affects 50 million people across the EU and impacts the daily life of more than 15 million informal carers.…
The National Board of Health and Welfare Sweden (NBHWS) was commissioned by the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs to lay the foundation for a National Carers Strategy. The newly published report focuses, in the first instance, on informal carers…
The Political Guidelines of President Ursula von der Leyen announced the adoption of a Child Guarantee to help ensuring that every child in Europe at risk of poverty or social exclusion has access to the most basic of rights like health care and education. The European…
Our member Carers UK calls on employers to actively support carers ahead of November lockdown in England Employers with established policies in place to support staff with caring responsibilities have been better able to meet the changing needs of their…
With a view to ensuring the sustainability of public finances in the EU, the ECOFIN Council charged the Economic Policy Committee (EPC) with producing a new set of long-term budgetary projections by 2021, on the basis of new population projections…
The 2020 edition of Health at a Glance: Europe focuses on the impact of the COVID‑19 crisis. Chapter 1 provides an initial assessment of the resilience of European health systems to the COVID-19 pandemic and their ability to contain and…
On 5th November, the EU-funded Homes4Life (H4L) project organised an interactive webinar where relevant stakeholders could provide their views and ask questions about the Homes4Life certification scheme, which was presented in detail by Hervé Duret and Christophe Gérard of Certivéa…
Our colleagues from the European Center for Social Welfare policy and Research carried out a survey of 2,000 respondents aged 20-64 in Austria in June/July 2020 on the socioeconomic condition of informal carers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the…
We would like to invite you to take part in the COSUTI study. The purpose of the COSUTI Study is to develop a core outcome set (COS) for interventions for the treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infection (UTI) in adults.…
