Ten years ago, EIGE introduced the Gender Equality Index as a marker for the status quo of gender equality in the EU. Each edition came with more or less the same conclusion: progress is at a snail’s pace. However, in this…
In 2021, Acufade, a member of Eurocarers from Tenerife, Spain, carried out an investigation on family caregivers in the Canary Islands. This comprehensive study is now fully availñable in English. It revealed the lives of these invisible pillars of the…
Older people with cancer and their informal carers living in the community have the right to receive timely access to health and social care services. Yet, many of them still do not receive the health and social services they need,…
On 4 July, Eurocarers took part in the kick-off meeting of the Eldicare 2.0 project in Athens. The overall goal of this new project is to strengthen stakeholders’ cooperation in the area of elderly care and educational provision in healthcare…
Taking care of older adults has become increasingly important as our population ages and social welfare policies change. Many caregivers, who are often family members, friends, or neighbors, provide essential support to help older people with daily chores, healthcare, and…
SOUND is an Erasmus+ funded project which aims to develop a training curriculum of active and passive music-making activities targeted at social and healthcare professionals and informal carers involved in dementia care. The project also aims to produce an original music-based…
In 2022, Pårørendealliansen our colleague from Norway, ordered a systematic mapping review done by Menon Economics, of the informal carers research done in Norway over the last ten years. They have examined 112 studies that addresses different informal carer themes…
Mariam Kirvalidze, PhD student at the Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and her supervisor, Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga work on the topic of informal caregiving. They recently published an interesting umbrella review on caregiver interventions (47 systematic reviews were included, covering…
In this policy brief, authors from the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research and the University of Malta discuss findings from the InCARE survey* on attitudes, experiences and expectations on long-term care in Malta. They find that there…
Since 2018, Pårørendealliansen (Norwegian alliance for informal carers) has been advocating for Young carers. In Norway, they have good data on children and young carers up to 18 years, but no national data on the group from 16 to 26 years…
