Last Updated on November 25, 2013
On 12 December, Care4Dem’s partners held their fifth project meeting, in Amadora, near Lisbon. This meeting provided the opportunity to know better about the host organisation, Aproximar, a social cooperative providing a wide range of training opportunities in their community…
Governments should urgently reform their pension systems to ensure that the growing share of workers in temporary or part-time employment can contribute enough during their working lives to receive an adequate income in retirement, according to a new OECD report…
What is the state of health in your country? Discover the profile of your health system in this report published by the European Commission. Country Health Profiles are being issued with the Companion Report that shows some of the biggest…
The Care4Dem model of an online Mutual Aid Group for informal carers of people with dementia is now available. To date, all the components of the Care4Dem model of an online Mutual Aid Group (MAG) for informal carers of people…
European doctors recognise the impact of the digital transformation on medical practice and the potential of AI to become a unique instrument in this set of emerging health care tools. However, its confident and effective use depends on understanding its…
This is an introduction to the so-called “European Semester”, the EC’s mechanism for economic governance which increasingly impacts social agendas and now serves as a one of the vehicles for our advocacy message. The Semester and our analysis of it…
Despite the despite the centrality of care to our everyday lives and the enormity of family carers’ unpaid contribution, two reports recently published by Family Carers Ireland show that carers are paying the price for inadequacies in public systems of…
The EDY-CARE project aims to empower teachers and other school staff (e.g., school nurses, psychologists, social workers, management) in upper secondary education to recognise adolescent young carers (16-19 years old) in classes and maximize their learning opportunities, while ensuring their…
The training course for facilitators was implemented by the European Association for Social Innovation in September 2019 in Bucharest, allowing the piloting of the intervention to be started. The CARE4DEM training course for facilitators of mutual aid groups took place…
Do you know a young person who is… often late or missing days or weeks off school for no reason? often tired, anxious or withdrawn? having problems socially or with making friends? conversely, do they get on well with adults…
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