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…
A research note by the European Centre for Social welfare Policy and Research In this publication, Cassandra Simmons and Klara Lorenz-Dant present the results of the InCARE survey* on attitudes, experiences and expectations on long-term care (LTC) for selected Balkan…
Family Carers Ireland was awarded funding from the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission to complete a piece of research ‘Valuing Care Work: Improving Family Carers’ Access to Adequate Income Supports’. In collaboration with Professor Mary Murphy and Dr Pauline…
Eurocarers is involved in a new project starting July 1st. ELDICARE 2.0 aims to bridge the gap between the market needs in terms of skills and competences in the long-term care sector, and the ability of the Vocational and Educational…
A new report is available, presenting an overview of the long term care landscape in Spain, which builds on the analytical work carried out within the InCARE project. It provides the reader with insight of the needs and capacity for community-care…
The UK Care Act (2014) places a duty on Local Authorities to meet the eligible needs of carers in the form of personal budgets (PBs). PBs are positioned as a lever that will promote carer wellbeing. In the context of…
A newly published PhD thesis on welfare technology for older people and their informal carers in a Swedish context that Maria Nilsson Phd student at Linnaeus University and the Swedish Family Care Competence Centre will defend on Friday 16 June…
