In recent years social policy field has been focusing more on the long term care provision in Estonia. Alongside the wider framework informal care and the possibilities to value and support the informal carers receive special attention in 2020. Ministry…
The Hampshire Young Carers Alliance (HYCA) is an alliance of ten young carer services or ‘projects’ within Hampshire (UK), with the common aim of supporting young carers within the county Using an allocation of The Big Lottery funding, HYCA commissioned…
The promotion program of the Federal Office of Public Health aims to study the situation and needs of family caregivers. It must make it possible to develop offers of support and discharge adapted to needs so that family caregivers can,…
Around one third of Dutch citizens aged over 16 are informal carers. Informal care (regarded here as all help provided to a sick, disabled or frail person by someone in their immediate social setting) is indispensable. Many informal carers are…
The Erasmus+ funded “COSMIC” is an European initiative aiming to support the migrant carers a target group which is at double risk of exclusion, discrimination and stigmatization: that of informal carers of migrant background. Migrant carers in common with carers…
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…
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,…
