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The DG Employment of the European Commission just released two complementary guides in the area of social innovation As you know, social innovation projects aim to provide innovative solutions to today’s societal challenges. The European Social Fund+ (ESF+) provides the…
On June 3rd, Camilla Malm, doctoral student at Linnaeus University in Sweden, successfully defended her thesis entitled, “Involving informal carers in health and social care research”. The aim of the thesis was to gain a deeper understanding of informal carers’…
In the context of the annual World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners published Tackling abuse of older people: five priorities for the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing 2021–2030 . The new resource outlines key…
The Erasmus+ KA1 project “ACCEUEDU” Access and management of European funding for adult education providers active in the field of mental health is a project with key objectives: 1) The cooperation between mental health actors in Greece. The main objectives…
EPIONI in cooperation with the patient associations “The Heart of the Child”, “Skitali” and the “Association of Heart Patients Officers of the Navy – L.S. and Friends” successfully held on Friday 29 April 2022, the 5th informative event – hybrid…
Our colleagues from the Greek Association of Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders are pleased to announce a new very innovative Erasmus+ project in Higher Education (2021-1-EL01-KA220-HED-000032173) “Genetic counseling in European universities: The case of neurodegenerative diseases” (GECONEU,). The GECONEU project…
Changing care practices within families, demographic changes, and the increase of the elderly population in need of care, together with shifting attitudes in favour of home-based (as opposed to institutional) care before and mainly after the COVID-19 epidemic, have rendered…
Within the Erasmus+ programme, the PIA project has recently started, which aims to promote the figure of the Peer Support Worker (PSW) as a support figure for family members and caregivers of people with dementia, with a positive impact also…
By the new project "Game4CoSkills", we aim to develop a Mobile game for cognitive skills development and concept teaching for adults with intellectual disabilities to use individually or in a group format. The mobile game covers multiple cognitive skills development…
The Greek Association of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders participates on this new and exciting Erasmus+ funded project. InfoCARE has a 2 year duration and aims to support informal caregivers by providing them with non-formal education on dementia, innovative devices…
