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…
I never fail to be amazed by the warm welcome in the company of those who care about caregiving. Heading off on a Monday evening flight for the Scottish Carers Parliament in Edinburgh, with a fully packed two-day agenda, I…
In collaboration with the World Health Organization, Tilburg University and Vilans have launched a European survey researching what values matter to different people in integrated health services. The web-based survey is aimed at a broad variety of stakeholders: users, informal…
We are pleased to share with you this very promising update from the Norwegian alliance for informal Carers, our member from Norway: After Pårørendealliansen (Norwegian alliance for informal Carers) launched the idea for a National Carers Strategy in 2016,…
PRESS RELEASE for the ME-WE project Across Europe, a substantial number of children and young people provide care (emotional, personal, practical, financial) to a family member or a friend who is an older person, has a disability, chronic disease,…
In September Eurocarers together with AGE Platform Europe, COFACE Families Europe arranged a workshop in the Social Platform’s conference Building Social Europe. The conference organised as a part of High-Level Conference on the Economy of Wellbeing of the Finnish Presidency…
In the framework of the Eurocarers General Assembly 2019 which took place in Copenhagen on May 20-21 2019, our Nordic Members Associations met to discuss the situation of care and caring in their respective countries, the result is a joint…
Carers UK have worked with the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), a national body for professionals working in adult social care within local government, to produce a new best practice guide. The Care Act 2014 was a…
On Sunday 7 July 2019 a small team of die-hards will abseil from the Forth Rail Bridge to celebrate the 25th anniversary of our Edinburgh based member VOCAL. 25 years ago they started with a list of some 50 carers,…
Our member Family Carers Ireland has issued a study together with the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland, UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems. Did you know that informal care saves the state 10 billion euros a year? Read…
