Now available: a free online course for health and social care professionals working with older people and their informal carers developed by the Erasmus+ SINCALA project partnership under the coordination of the University of Tartu (Estonia). The goal of the course…
Last 24th January, Family Carers Ireland (Clare Duffy) and Eurocarers (Claire Champeix) presented their perspectives on the gender dimension of care, at the invitation of the Irish Department of Health on the occasion of an internal webinar. This session was…
Pro Aidants becomes Swiss Carers - a name change that is more than just a new name. In recent years, the association has specialised in supporting family carers in Switzerland. Together with partners, the advocacy organization has successfully improved the…
On January 20th, Joana Vicenté, a doctoral student within the Informal Carers, Care and Caring Group, headed up by Professor Elizabeth Hanson at Linnaeus University in Sweden, successfully defended her thesis entitled “Combining informal care with paid work – An…
Discover all the resources developed under the framework of the Hi-Ability Erasmus+ project! Hi-Ability adopts an original methodological approach, where the therapeutic-rehabilitation programme focuses on the socio-educational value of the natural environment. The general objective of the project is to…
World Children’s Day, held on 20th November 2022, marks also Austria’s 2nd National Action Day for Caring Children and Adolescents. As the Interest Group for Informal Carers in Austria, we have raised our voice this year by handing out 50.000…
Call to our French speaking members. The organisation Entr'Ages, Belgian (French speaking) member of our partner AGE platform is organising next April 2023 an "Intergenerational Week". Given the intergenerational dimension of informal care (for instance, taking care of a parent/grandparent…
Great tool and food for thoughts, our Swiss colleagues from Pro Aidants have recently published an online tools to support carers of the canton of Grisons calculate. This free and anonymous calculator will help them see what benefits they might be…
Alzheimer Hellas participates in the Game4CoSkills project which aims to develop a new and innovative mobile game for adults with cognitive dysfunctions and cognitive impairment such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down Syndrome, Mild Cognitive Impairment and mild or moderate Intellectual…
The Erasmus+ KA1 project “ACCEUEDU” Access and management of European funding for adult education providers active in the field of mental health is a project with key objectives: 1) The cooperation between mental health actors in Greece. The main objectives…
