In 2022, Family Carers Ireland worked in partnership with Dr Sarah Donnelly, UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, to do a piece of research looking at family carers who experience harm in their caring relationship. The…
The Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) is calling on patients and informal caregivers to apply to be part of the new IHI Patient Pool. By launching this call, they hope to create a pool of patients and informal caregivers who can…
On 7 February 2023 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released a report titled “Time for better care at the end of life”. The report shows that with more chronic conditions and an ageing population, a growing share…
In recent years, there has been growing international recognition of the term ‘young carers’ – children and young people up to 25 who help care for or support someone (often a family member) because of an illness, disability, frailty or…
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,…
