International associations representing patients (International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations - IAPO), informal carers (Eurocarers), and palliative care professionals (International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care – IAHPC, and the International Children’s Palliative Care Network - ICPCN) call on governments to…
Informal carers are families, friends, neighbours who provide (mostly) unpaid long-term care outside of a professional context. Women provide the lion’s share of this care. Why do informal carers matter? Demographic ageing significantly challenges the sustainability of our care systems,…
On the first UN International Day of Care and Support, 16 European organisations call for urgent measures to address underinvestment and staff shortages in long-term care. The first UN International Day of Care and Support is a welcome initiative that…
Equality Care Should be Shared and Fair This European Carers Day, Eurocarers and its members are calling on all European governments to tackle gender equality in caregiving, shine a light on the role of informal carers and highlight the…
07/09/2022 Eurocarers’ Press Release regarding the EU Care Strategy Eurocarers warmly welcomes the EC call to identify and better support informal carers in its newly-adopted EU Care Strategy, and urges for a swift and full implementation across the EU The…
DoCUp is a 28-months Erasmus Plus project that aims to equip domestic care workers with a mix of social care, transversal, and attitudinal skills to ensure resilient employment pathways able to respond to challenges such as those raised by the…
Eurocarers warmly welcomes the adoption of key conclusions on Long-Term Care (LTC) by EU ministers for employment, social affairs and health. These conclusions clearly recognise the vital contribution of informal carers to LTC provision as well as their need for…
International experts from Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, and Sweden are uniting to develop new treatment and care pathways for elderly patients with multiple chronic diseases. Funded by the EU Horizon 2020 program, ESCAPE is a €6.1 million, 4.5-year…
Registrations are still open for the 3rd International Young Carers Conference, which will take place online from 3rd to 6th May. Are you committed to enable all children to fully enjoy their human rights? Young carers - children and young…
The 3rd International Young Carers Conference – jointly organised by Eurocarers, Linnaeus University and Nka (The Swedish Family Care Competence Centre) - will take place online, from the 3rd to the 6th May 2021. Young carers are children and young…
