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The European voice for informal carers

Is It All About Happiness? The latest evidence on wellbeing and childbearing decisions in Europe

July 20, 2019
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1. WHO – New WHO guidelines promote healthy lifestyle to reduce risk of dementia

2. Who cares? – Securing support in old age

3. Call for proposals on social innovation and national reforms – Long-term care

4. Risks Perceived by Frail Male Patients, Family Caregivers and Clinicians in Hospital: Do they Change after Discharge? A Multiple Case Study

5. Housing: an Educational European Road to Civil Rights

6. Pro Aidants is engaged #FortheHelpers

7. EPDA survey on the challenges of Parkinson’s carers

8. Country Specific Recommendations issued by the European Commission on 5 June: what is in it for carers?

9. Offer European Youth a perspective, offer them a job placement via the European Solidarity Corps!

10. Council Register – Implementation of the EU’s Strategic Agenda 2019-2024

11. European Institute for Gender Equality: EIGE – Gender Equality Index 2019 focuses on work-life balance

12. EESC – Integrating the European Pillar of Social Rights into the roadmap for deepening Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union – Study

13. EU Health Coalition calls upon the European Council to increase the total Horizon Europe budget to €120 billion

14. EIGE – Tackling the gender pay gap: not without a better work-life balance

15. CHAFEA – EU Health Programme High Level Conference (September 30)

16. OECD – Online database OECD Health Statistics 2019

17. Decent aging: a human obligation, but also an opportunity for economic progress, employment and innovation

18. Is It All About Happiness? The latest evidence on wellbeing and childbearing decisions in Europe

19. Successful Eurocarers’ Study Visit on ICT-based solutions for carers last 12 September in Brussels.

Author: Letizia Mencarini

Editor: Daniela Vono de Vilhena

Key Messages:

Policies and services aimed at promoting work-life balance should sustain the wellbeing of parents, in particular mothers.
Wellbeing following the first child is a key element leading to the progression to the second birth. This parity should constitute the main target for family and fertility policies.
Securing stable employment and decent housing at younger ages for men and women are necessary measures for the onset of childbearing and to close the gap between desired and realised fertility intentions in Europe.
Norms enforcing the uptake of parental leave by both men and women are necessary in order to increase the wellbeing of parents.

Download the Policy Brief 22/2019.