Last 14 December, Eurocarers was invited to discuss the outcomes of an interesting Erasmus+ project aimed to stimulate user-led design in the development of ICT-based Alzheimer care solutions. The Co-Care project brought together universities, ICT professionals, stakeholders from the health…
The #Label2Enable partnership recently announced the launch of a survey for European patients, informal caregivers and citizens. If you are a health app user or work with health apps and would like to help study use, preferences and attitudes in…
Family Carers Ireland’s annual Autumn Research Conference, entitled ‘Partnership in Practice’ was held online on 23rd November 2022. Preliminary findings and discussions from seven research projects focusing on different aspects of family carers’ lives and the caring experience were presented,…
To mark Carers Rights Day 2022, our colleagues from Carers UK are launching a new research report Cycles of caring: transitions in and out of unpaid care, in collaboration with the Centre for Care at the University of Sheffield. The…
Carers UK has recently published their State of Caring 2022 report: the largest and most comprehensive survey of unpaid carers, with over 12,400 current carers taking part this year. It is clear from carers’ responses that the cost-of-living crisis has…
Our Norwegian colleagues from Parorenalliansen report on a survey on their Norwegian National Carers Strategy: Background: In Norway we got at National informal carers survey in May 2022. It is based on the results of asking informal carers of four…
The EU Horizon 2020 funded research and innovation project “ME-WE” (2018-2021) has ended, but the knowledge and the ME-WE model are being spread further. A scientific article summarizing the project and its main outcomes was recently published and in Sweden…
The Centre for Care is a collaboration between the universities of Sheffield, Birmingham, Kent and Oxford, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the Office for National Statistics, Carers UK, the National Children's Bureau and the Social Care Institute…
Professor Saul Becker, former Andrew and Virginia Rudd Professor of Social Care Research and Education Practice at Cambridge University, has now moved to Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, as Institute Director and Professor of Children and Families. His new email is…
Our colleagues from Family Carers Ireland just published their biennial State of Caring report. This report sets out the findings of Ireland’s second national State of Caring survey undertaken by Family Carers Ireland between 19th January and 2nd March 2022.…
