Last Updated on November 25, 2013
InCARE has launched its second policy brief – Time to care about care! Responding to changing attitudes, expectations and preferences on long-term care in Europe. Based on a comparison of the results of Special Eurobarometer 283 on Health and long-term care…
InCARE has launched a second national factsheet, describing Attitudes, experiences and expectations on long-term care in Spain, available in English and Spanish. We found that: Limited availability and high costs are commonly cited as barriers in access to care in…
Our colleagues from the Greek Association of Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders are pleased to announce a new very innovative Erasmus+ project in Higher Education (2021-1-EL01-KA220-HED-000032173) “Genetic counseling in European universities: The case of neurodegenerative diseases” (GECONEU,). The GECONEU project…
Following the German elections in September 2021, a new coalition government of SPD, Greens and Liberal Democrats published a coalition agreement with few, but important commitments for the development of carer support. The agreement says: "We shall combine entitlements to…
Our Spanish colleagues from CEAFA recently launch their Manual for the training and support of carers of people with dementia This manual that has been prepared within the framework of the Strategy for Neurodegenerative Diseases of the SNS and reviewed…
The Swedish government recently launched the first national carers strategy. The strategy aims to strengthen the carer’s perspective, in particular within the healthcare sector and to make carer support more equal across the country. – We have wanted a national…
Changing care practices within families, demographic changes, and the increase of the elderly population in need of care, together with shifting attitudes in favour of home-based (as opposed to institutional) care before and mainly after the COVID-19 epidemic, have rendered…
Within the Erasmus+ programme, the PIA project has recently started, which aims to promote the figure of the Peer Support Worker (PSW) as a support figure for family members and caregivers of people with dementia, with a positive impact also…
The Erasmus + Together project has officially come to an end, the final resources have been created and published and the final events have been organised. Results of the Together project All the resources that have been produced during…
On 5th April 2022, Family Carers Ireland launched ‘Care at Home - Costs of Care Arising from Disability’ which looks at the additional and often substantial direct costs faced by caring households, but also the hidden costs of caring that…
