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,…
The Council adopted two recommendations: 1. on early childhood education and care and 2. on affordable high-quality long-term care. Everyone – from the very young to the elderly – has a right to high-quality and affordable care. Investing in care…
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…
Following the publication of the first-ever EU Care Strategy, are EU institutions on the path of creating an identity for informal carers as well as a positive obligation for EU Governments to respect and protect carers’ rights and meet their…
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…
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…
Dear Ministers, Re: The importance for Member States to adopt and implement, without reservation, the proposed Council Recommendation on access to affordable high-quality long-term care On 7 September, the European Commission put forward an ambitious and much-awaited EU Care Strategy,…
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) calls on the EU and Member States to implement more concrete measures to support the health, housing and financial needs of the growing number people taking on long-term caregiving responsibilities of a family…
