Last Updated on November 25, 2013
What is the economic value of informal carers’ contribution to the society in the Netherlands? The question has been answered by a recent study commissioned by the national carers’ organisation ManterlzorgNL. In total, five million informal carers spent 1.5 billion…
International experts from Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, and Sweden are uniting to develop new treatment and care pathways for elderly patients with multiple chronic diseases. Funded by the EU Horizon 2020 program, ESCAPE is a €6.1 million, 4.5-year…
InCARE launches two publications on social innovation in long-term care. In support of policy-makers and organisational stakeholders that wish to engage directly in the implementation of social innovation initiatives in LTC, the InCARE project team has derived the key lessons…
How to support the development of national long-term care policy and care services at local and regional level? The InCARE project will contribute to the design of a coherent and coordinated approach by establishing socially innovative and participatory decision-making processes.…
Registrations are still open for the 3rd International Young Carers Conference, which will take place online from 3rd to 6th May. Are you committed to enable all children to fully enjoy their human rights? Young carers - children and young…
“Share4Carers” is an Erasmus+ Project to share good practices for children of parents with mental health problems in Europe. The ambition of the project ‘’Share4Carers’’ is to produce recommendations that will contribute to promote resilience and a positive outcome for…
Take part and register to the final ENhANCE Conference, the EU-funded Erasmus+ project that has designed and delivered a European Curriculum for Family and Community Nurse (FCN) - a key actor in the new Primary care model. The ENhANCE project…
On 1 September 2020, the First Minister announced that there would be an Independent Review of Adult Social Care in Scotland as part of the Programme for Government. The Review was chaired by Derek Feeley, who was supported by an…
Carer organisations in several European countries have developed campaigns to take carer issues directly into politics. We are pleased to share two examples in this newsletter – from Scotland and from Germany. “When carers first started campaigning for better rights…
The 3rd International Young Carers Conference – jointly organised by Eurocarers, Linnaeus University and Nka (The Swedish Family Care Competence Centre) - will take place online, from the 3rd to the 6th May 2021. Young carers are children and young…