Last Updated on November 25, 2013
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…
By the new project "Game4CoSkills", we aim to develop a Mobile game for cognitive skills development and concept teaching for adults with intellectual disabilities to use individually or in a group format. The mobile game covers multiple cognitive skills development…
Our colleagues from the Careum School of Health organise the 3rd Young Carers Conference. This conference will take place in Lugano on the 16th of May. At the conference, the Young Carers research team of the Careum School of Health…
Multimorbidity means living with multiple chronic physical and mental health conditions. For example, if a patient suffers from anxiety, high blood pressure, and arthritis, they suffer from multimorbidity. Multimorbidity is extremely common in seniors, in fact, 75% of people over…
On the 15th September 2021, EC President Ursula von der Leyen announced that the European Commission will put forward a new European Care Strategy as part of its Work Programme 2022 in order to “support men and women in finding…
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