EPIONI in cooperation with the patient associations “The Heart of the Child”, “Skitali” and the “Association of Heart Patients Officers of the Navy – L.S. and Friends” successfully held on Friday 29 April 2022, the 5th informative event – hybrid…
The Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality of the European Parliament just issued an interesting report on poverty among European women. Download the report here.
The DG Employment of the European Commission just released two complementary guides in the area of social innovation As you know, social innovation projects aim to provide innovative solutions to today’s societal challenges. The European Social Fund+ (ESF+) provides the…
DoCUp is a 28-months Erasmus Plus project that aims to equip domestic care workers with a mix of social care, transversal, and attitudinal skills to ensure resilient employment pathways able to respond to challenges such as those raised by the…
On June 3rd, Camilla Malm, doctoral student at Linnaeus University in Sweden, successfully defended her thesis entitled, “Involving informal carers in health and social care research”. The aim of the thesis was to gain a deeper understanding of informal carers’…
In the context of the annual World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners published Tackling abuse of older people: five priorities for the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing 2021–2030 . The new resource outlines key…
Young adult carers (YACs) are people aged 18–25 years who provide care to a relative who is ill or has a disability. France begins to come to the YAC issue. YAC students were mentioned for the first time in a…
This study investigates whether there are differences in quality of life—i.e., psychosomatic complaints and life satisfaction—between schoolchildren with and without a chronically ill or disabled parent at home. It also examines the role played by the intensity of tasks, life…
Although 10% of family caregivers are grandchildren, only a few studies have examined the experience of grandchildren who provide care to grandparents. The current study examined the caregiving processes and outcomes of grandchild caregivers to grandparents. Participants were (N = 5,778) adults…
The period 2021-2022 has been a period of reflection and rejuvenation, following the unprecedented crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. While we are not entirely out of the woods yet, the last two years have led the general public to…
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