The European Center for Social Welfare Policy and Research published on the 23/6/2020 a new policy brief on co-financing residential care for older people. This publication aims to fill the gap of limited information on the policy and equity implications…
On 25 June, Eurocarers held an online seminar, to disseminate and discuss Care4Dem results. During the event, the project’s partners presented the Care4Dem’s comprehensive set of tools and guidelines, enabling stakeholders to implement easily the model and engage a commonly…
On the occasion of the multiplier event organised on 19 June in collaboration with the College of Nursing of Lleida and the University of Lleida , the regional television of Lleida conducted two interviews about the Care4Dem project during its…
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the global prevalence and risk of violence against adults with disabilities published in the Lancet during the past years, found that overall adults with disabilities are 1.5 times more likely to be victims of…
As announced by President von der Leyen in her Political Guidelines and set out in the mission letter of Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, the Commission will present a European plan to combat cancer and support Member…
Without social protection, the total costs of long-term care are very high. With the proportion of the population over 80 years-old projected to double by 2050 in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), growing numbers of older people…
Together with the International Association of Mutual Benefit Societies (AIM) and nine other healthcare NGOs, Eurocarers called for more attention to be paid to the enormous impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on mental health and well-being worldwide. During the…
Last month, the Commission published country reports analysing each Member State's key socio-economic challenges. These country reports are part of the European Semester, established in 2010 as an annual process through which EU countries coordinate some of their policies and…
Last 5 March, the ROSE-Net policy and research European platform launched a series of briefings on older people poverty and exclusion. These publications were presented during a final conference, concluding more than 3 years of years of collaborative and multi-dimensional…
In the follow up of our previous cooperation with patients’ and professionals’ organisations in the area of cancer, Eurocarers is supporting a campaign asking to prioritise cancer-related complications and comorbidities, coordinated by the European Cancer Patient Coalition. Cancer-related complications and…
