Policies to leave no carer behind Informal carers – family and friends who perform care - are the first line of support for older people. About 60% of older people who receive care at home report receiving only informal care…
Our Spanish colleagues from CEAFA recently launch their Manual for the training and support of carers of people with dementia This manual that has been prepared within the framework of the Strategy for Neurodegenerative Diseases of the SNS and reviewed…
The Erasmus + Together project has officially come to an end, the final resources have been created and published and the final events have been organised. Results of the Together project All the resources that have been produced during…
On 5th April 2022, Family Carers Ireland launched ‘Care at Home - Costs of Care Arising from Disability’ which looks at the additional and often substantial direct costs faced by caring households, but also the hidden costs of caring that…
Already more than 3000 responses, and you can still add yours by 20 February! Please help us collect an even large number of contributions to the InCARE survey on attitudes, experiences, and expectations on long-term care. The aim of the…
Last November, Eurocarers published a position paper on ICT for informal carers, we hope that you found it interesting. A wide range of ICT-based solutions are being developed and piloted across Europe. Most of which are proving very useful to…
In December 2021, we published a position paper on the gender dimension of informal care, you might have missed it. Across the EU, 80% of care is provided by informal carers. A majority of them are women as informal carers…
The Swedish Family Care Competence Centre (Nationellt kompetenscentrum anhöriga, Nka), has for a number of years worked with Blended Learning Networks. A Blended Learning Network is a heterogenous community of practice – a method where people with a common interest…
An international online patient community, Carenity, conducted a patient study in two independent waves among adults affected by non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Europe and in the United States of America (USA). Eurocarers was invited to contribute to the discussion of…
On 12 May 2021, the FutureGEN team launched the Data Navigator, an open-access tool that allows the user to compare gender and socioeconomic differences in health and long-term care use for community-dwelling older people in Europe. The Data Navigator uses…
