Research shows that school health care staff at primary and secondary schools in Sweden rarely find out about children who have a role of a young carer. Anhörigas Riksförbund (The Swedish Carers’ Association) has therefore developed a methodological material aimed…
In 2022, Carers Trust published the final evaluation of its Working for Carers project, which supports unpaid carers and former carers, aged 25 and over, to move closer to employment. The project is delivered directly with carers by four Carers…
Together with the Children’s Society, Daniel Phelps undertook a literature review back in 2020. Due to Covid, this publication has just been published now. This literature review was carried out as part of The Department of Health and Social Care…
In 2015, Care Alliance Ireland established the Discussion Paper Series, which was developed to discuss some of the less spoken about issues facing family carers. Some topics are seen as awkward, or irrelevant but have massive impacts on either specific…
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…
GAMIAN-Europe, the Global Alliance of Mental Illness Advocacy Networks, recently held a workshop on the comorbidity of cancer and depression for both patients and carers. The workshop was held to understand better the perspectives of this comorbidity from the patients…
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…
