28 February 2023 from 9:00 - 10:30 CET The webinar is organised in the framework of “KEN” – an EU-funded project that has established a Korea-EU SCO network. The objective of the webinar is to bring together European and Korean…
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…
The EU Horizon 2020 funded research and innovation project “ME-WE” (2018-2021) has ended, but the knowledge and the ME-WE model are being spread further. A scientific article summarizing the project and its main outcomes was recently published and in Sweden…
Young adult carers (YACs) are people aged 18–25 years who provide care to a relative who is ill or has a disability. France begins to come to the YAC issue. YAC students were mentioned for the first time in a…
World Carers Conversation returns May 19, 2022 from 8:00 am – 6:00 pm ET as a global, virtual event with the support of EMD Serono and Embracing Carers. Join innovators, researchers, policymakers and carer advocates from around the globe to…
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…
Our colleagues from the Careum School of Health organise the 3rd Young Carers Conference. This conference will take place in Lugano on the 16th of May. At the conference, the Young Carers research team of the Careum School of Health…
Miriam Svenson and Elizabeth Hanson, our colleagues from Swedish NKA, took part in a symposium hosted by an Japanese NGO Tokyo Soteria whose aim is to support young carers of people with mental illness. Among other, they presented the Me-WE…
The mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on young adult carers have been neglected. This study aimed to identify COVID-19 related risk factors for young adult carers and to investigate their mental health relative to non-carer peers. Of the…
