Cuidadores Portugal, our member from Portugal, won a prize given by TEVA in Champalimaud foundation as one of the best practices with their young carers project. This project aims to support 100 young carers giving them educational, psychological support and…
Our colleagues from COMIP, an Italian association helping children of mentally ill parents, under the leadership of Stefania Buoni, member of the Eurocarers Young Carers Working group, organised a screening of the movie King of Atlantis in order to raise…
The Swedish Family Care Competence Centre (Nationellt kompetenscentrum anhöriga, Nka), has for a number of years worked with Blended Learning Networks. A Blended Learning Network is a heterogenous community of practice – a method where people with a common interest…
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…
The Swedish Family Care Competence Centre has recently started to offer digital group meetings for people who take care of someone with multiple disabilities and who speaks Arabic. The aim is to reach out to more carers in Sweden and…
To celebrate its 30 years anniversary, Carers Finland produced a video about the aspects of family care. Four family carers tell their personal stories in the video. Furthermore Tarja Halonen, former President, one of the founders of Carers Finland, Anu…
Migrant carers in common with carers more generally, work tirelessly in support of those they care for, often without recognition and to the detriment of their own health and well-being. The project group has been working from Jan 2019 to…
Take part and register to the final ENhANCE Conference, the EU-funded Erasmus+ project that has designed and delivered a European Curriculum for Family and Community Nurse (FCN) - a key actor in the new Primary care model. The ENhANCE project…
On 1 September 2020, the First Minister announced that there would be an Independent Review of Adult Social Care in Scotland as part of the Programme for Government. The Review was chaired by Derek Feeley, who was supported by an…
