Last Updated on November 25, 2013
The House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee has released a report, Social Care: Funding and Workforce, which calls for an immediate increase in investment to avoid the risk of market collapse. The Committee has called for a £7bn…
On the 6th of October, Nationellt kompetenscentrum anhöriga (The Swedish Family Care Competence Centre), organized a webinar in order to celebrate the European Carers Day and to raise awareness of carers around Europe. The webinar began with a speech by…
The co-chairs of the European Parliament's Informal Carers Interest Group call on MEPs to join up and help provide carers a "strong Parliamentary voice" Read the article signed by Sirpa Pietikäinen, Luke Ming Flanagan and Marisa Matias in the Parliament Magazine
The consortium of the Erasmus+ funded “Bridge” project, which aims to create “Serious Games” acting on dementia symptoms, is pleased to announce that the 8 games, acting on cognitive and behavioural symptoms of dementia, have been created and ready to…
Our member Carers UK invites you to campaign with them for more support for unpaid carers. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of carers have had to provide more care. It has left many exhausted and close to burning out…
Anhörigriksdagen is the largest meeting forum for informal carers in the Nordic countries and it has been arranged for over 20 years. This year's theme of the two day conference is Carers - at the end of life. More and more people are…
To exploit the full potential of contact tracing and warning apps to break the chain of coronavirus infections across borders and save lives, the Commission, at the invitation by EU Member States, has set up an EU-wide system to ensure…
Across Europe, young carers and their need for support receive limited attention in the media, policy and empirical research, even though, similar to adult carers, they also provide care to ill family members. The Delphi study, a qualitative research methodology,…
Results from an Online Survey in Six European Countries and Implications for Future Research, Policy and Practice Although up to 8% of European youngsters carry out high-intensity care for a family member, adolescent young carers (AYCs), especially those caring for…
On the 2nd of October 2020, the decree relating to the French Daily Caregiver Allowance has been published. It is a concrete form of recognition of the role of informal caregivers in society, started with the law of 11 February…
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