Last Updated on November 25, 2013
People with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) need to improve their cognitive functions in order to avoid the deterioration of their condition. Cognitive abilities can be improved by learning a foreign language. Due to the cognitive deficits of MCI people, conventional…
Eurocarers has teamed up with the European office of the World Health Organisation in Copenhagen to produce a factsheet on the impact informal care on carers' health and well-being. The document presents user-friendly data in the form of infographics on…
The UNECE Ministerial Conference on Ageing 2022 took place in Rome, Italy, from 16 to 17 June 2022. The Conference completed the fourth review and appraisal cycle (2018-2022) of the implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing…
The European Commission launches a toolkit for implementation of EU NCDs Initiative “Healthier Together” which mentions the need to support carers of people with dementia. The “Healthier Together” toolkit identifies policies and practices to tackle non-communicable diseases (NCDs). It also…
EPIONI in cooperation with the patient associations “The Heart of the Child”, “Skitali” and the “Association of Heart Patients Officers of the Navy – L.S. and Friends” successfully held on Friday 29 April 2022, the 5th informative event – hybrid…
The Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality of the European Parliament just issued an interesting report on poverty among European women. Download the report here.
The DG Employment of the European Commission just released two complementary guides in the area of social innovation As you know, social innovation projects aim to provide innovative solutions to today’s societal challenges. The European Social Fund+ (ESF+) provides the…
DoCUp is a 28-months Erasmus Plus project that aims to equip domestic care workers with a mix of social care, transversal, and attitudinal skills to ensure resilient employment pathways able to respond to challenges such as those raised by the…
On June 3rd, Camilla Malm, doctoral student at Linnaeus University in Sweden, successfully defended her thesis entitled, “Involving informal carers in health and social care research”. The aim of the thesis was to gain a deeper understanding of informal carers’…
In the context of the annual World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners published Tackling abuse of older people: five priorities for the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing 2021–2030 . The new resource outlines key…
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