JOINT PRESS RELEASE Brussels, Belgium – 19 September 2019 To preserve their legitimacy, the EU and member states need to care for citizens! Placing wellbeing at the core of our economic models and welfare states is not only an…
In the framework of the Eurocarers General Assembly 2019 which took place in Copenhagen on May 20-21 2019, our Nordic Members Associations met to discuss the situation of care and caring in their respective countries, the result is a joint…
Join the MATUROLIFE community here to learn more about how user-centred design coupled with material innovation and sensor integration will aim to produce “smart” furniture, clothing and footwear with assistive functionality in this EU-funded Horizon 2020 Innovation Action running until…
Presentations from the successful “Homes4Life” Stakeholder Workshop, held on 24 June in Brussels, have been available here. The workshop consisted of 3 sessions and roundtables to gather external stakeholders’ feedback on key issues for developing a strategy and vision of…
A professional patient advocate is set to take charge of the Commission’s health department. Stella Kyriakides, 63, is a breast cancer patient, the daughter of a breast cancer patient, and a past president of the Continent’s most prominent breast cancer…
The conference will be an occasion to reflect on the Panel’s work at the end of the mandate of the current membership and, based on this experience, more broadly on the role of evidence-based expert’s advice in policy making. It…
This second annual trend report outlines and summarises new policy developments in the area of child and family policy in the 28 EU Member States (EU28), and reports on progress with policies and activities initiated in earlier years. It is drafted…
The World Health Organization has published its first report identifying the top reasons why countries in the European region are failing to close the gap in health inequities. In its first wide-reaching report on the topic, WHO found that the…
PRESS RELEASE by UNIGE Everybody is likely to become a carer at some point in life, providing care for a spouse, family member, friend or neighbour with long-term care needs. The majority of such non-professional care, referred to as informal…
France, Germany and Sweden spend the most on health care in the EU as a proportion of their country’s gross domestic product, according to the latest figures released today by Eurostat. In 2016, the most recent year with full data,…
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