From its creation in 2006, our Belgian member Aidants Proches took charge of the implementation of specific social protections intended for informal carers. Their desire was twofold: to highlight an invisible social group, but also to recognize it in what…
The Helix Centre, an innovation lab in Healthcare and a joint venture of the Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art, has recently developed a series of End-of-Life Care Toolkits for Carers at home. The Helix Centre is …
Carers Trust Scotland has conducted a survey of young carers (aged 12 to 17) and young adult carers (aged 18 to 25) in Scotland to find out how they have been impacted by Coronavirus. The findings are important and represent…
How Coronavirus is affecting young carers and young adult carers, and what they want you to do next Caring day and night without a break. Worrying about keeping the people they care for safe. Coping with a mental health condition…
Our Belgian member asbl Aidans proches is hosting a seminar in the framework of their informal carers week. This seminar will be held in Louvain-la-Neuve at the Aula Magna on the 1st of October: Le (dé)confinement… made in aidants proches…
Zurich, June 24, 2020 We+Care, the Swiss care coordination pilot project received funding from the EU’s AAL innovation promotion program for a three year international research and development project called “Quality of Life at the End of Life”, which aims to improve…
In the Netherlands, the annual Week of young caregivers was celebrated from the first to the 7th of June. This year due to Covid-19 the activities were mainly held online. Because of that, an extra attention week Young caregivers will…
EIT Health Alumni is launching a Hackathon for all citizens to help develop digital solutions together with innovators. When? Saturday, 6 June 2020 - 9.30 am to 6pm CET Where? Online Hackathon - You can join from wherever you are!…
The Erasmus+ funded “COSMIC” programme is pleased to launch the multilingual Informative Booklets for migrant informal carers. These brochures describe who the caregiver is and help the reader through some short questions to recognize whether he/she’s a caregiver or not.…
The Erasmus+ funded “Bridge” project that aims to create serious games acting on dementia symptoms is now in its central phase. The consortium is pleased to announce that 8 games, acting on cognitive and behavioural symptoms of dementia, have been…
