Last Updated on November 25, 2013
Our Norwegian colleagues from Parorenalliansen report on a survey on their Norwegian National Carers Strategy: Background: In Norway we got at National informal carers survey in May 2022. It is based on the results of asking informal carers of four…
To mark European Carers Day, Family Carer’s Ireland today launched a paper on ‘Gender Dimensions of Care – An Irish Perspective’. This paper explores the current gender care gap in Ireland, the evolving family unit and how this is changing…
“Inequality in unpaid care provision have deep effects on the well-being of women throughout their life-span”, warns Maciej Kucharczyk, Secretary-General of AGE Platform Europe. “Older women face an average pension gap of 27% vis-à-vis men on average in the EU;…
Equality Care Should be Shared and Fair This European Carers Day, Eurocarers and its members are calling on all European governments to tackle gender equality in caregiving, shine a light on the role of informal carers and highlight the…
The Panhellenic Federation of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, in collaboration with the Panhellenic Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Greek Association of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, is organizing the 13th Panhellenic Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease and 5th Mediterranean…
The 23rd International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC23) in partnership with the Flanders Agency for Health and Care and Visit Flanders will take place at Flanders Meeting & Convention Center Antwerp, Flanders from 22-24 May 2023. With the overarching theme ‘Care in action: how to work…
Our new member from Tenerife Acufade (www.acufade.org) is organizing the congress dedicated to family care that will be held on 3, 4 and 5 November 2022 in Tenerife on the Canary Islands and streamed online. The event is specifically targeting family carers,…
The EU Horizon 2020 funded research and innovation project “ME-WE” (2018-2021) has ended, but the knowledge and the ME-WE model are being spread further. A scientific article summarizing the project and its main outcomes was recently published and in Sweden…
For World Mental Health Day 2022, Mental Health Europe will host an event at the European Parliament (hybrid event) on 10 October focusing on migrants, refugees and mental health. The event will bring together key actors to discuss the importance…
The Centre for Care is a collaboration between the universities of Sheffield, Birmingham, Kent and Oxford, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the Office for National Statistics, Carers UK, the National Children's Bureau and the Social Care Institute…