Family Carers Ireland was awarded funding from the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission to complete a piece of research ‘Valuing Care Work: Improving Family Carers’ Access to Adequate Income Supports’. In collaboration with Professor Mary Murphy and Dr Pauline…
Eurocarers is involved in a new project starting July 1st. ELDICARE 2.0 aims to bridge the gap between the market needs in terms of skills and competences in the long-term care sector, and the ability of the Vocational and Educational…
A new report is available, presenting an overview of the long term care landscape in Spain, which builds on the analytical work carried out within the InCARE project. It provides the reader with insight of the needs and capacity for community-care…
A newly published PhD thesis on welfare technology for older people and their informal carers in a Swedish context that Maria Nilsson Phd student at Linnaeus University and the Swedish Family Care Competence Centre will defend on Friday 16 June…
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…
