Across Europe, care systems are under growing pressure. Population ageing, staff shortages and insufficient investment in long-term care mean that families are increasingly left to fill the gaps. As highlighted in a recent opinion piece by Henk Nies in Het…
Monday, 6 October, marked European Carers Day. Each year, this campaign raises awareness of the similar challenges that unpaid carers face throughout Europe. This morning, we were delighted to welcome a group of representatives from health and social care organisations…
As part of this year’s European Carers Day campaign – “Invisible no more: Let’s see & value Migrant Care”, Eurocarers is proud to launch a new Position Paper on Migrant Care Work. Across Europe, long-term care (LTC) services remain far…
According to the Carers' Association, the Finnish government program has many good entries to improve the status of carers and they must be carried forward despite the deteriorating economic outlook. Labor Minister Arto Satonen says that in order to improve…
Our member Greek Carers Network EPIONI is actively involved in coordinating informative gatherings, teaming up with experts to tackle a diverse range of medical, legal, educational, and employment subjects that are pertinent to the wider public, with a special focus on…
To mark European Carers Day, Family Carer’s Ireland today launched a paper on ‘Gender Dimensions of Care – An Irish Perspective’. This paper explores the current gender care gap in Ireland, the evolving family unit and how this is changing…
“Inequality in unpaid care provision have deep effects on the well-being of women throughout their life-span”, warns Maciej Kucharczyk, Secretary-General of AGE Platform Europe. “Older women face an average pension gap of 27% vis-à-vis men on average in the EU;…
Equality Care Should be Shared and Fair This European Carers Day, Eurocarers and its members are calling on all European governments to tackle gender equality in caregiving, shine a light on the role of informal carers and highlight the…
Carers Finland celebrated its 30th anniversary by organizing the second Carers Parliament on European Carers Day on October 6th. Over 300 people, carers, care recipients, volunteers, professionals, researchers and policymakers, attended the online Parliament. In a panel discussion hosted by…
On the 6th of October, Nationellt kompetenscentrum anhöriga (The Swedish Family Care Competence Centre) organized a webinar to celebrate the second European Carers Day. Since the theme of this year’s European Carers Day was young carers, Nka’s webinar focused on…
