Dear Eurocarers members,
Thanks a million for your active contribution to the joint meeting of our Research and Policy Working Groups, held in Ljubljana – Slovenia, on the 8-9 September 2022. The event was co-hosted by our colleagues from the Anton Trstenjak Institute who have largely contributed to its success. As always, you will find the background documents and presentations used during the meeting below.
Presentations
Day 1 – 8 September 2022
- The European Care Strategy: A life course perspective to care
- Keynote presentation – Informal care & the growing care gap in the Netherlands, Prof. dr. Jet Bussemaker, Raad voor Volksgezondheid en Samenleving
Parallel Sessions
- Developing and valuing the competences of carers (summary report)
- Building a repository of ‘promising’ practices on Informal Care (summary report)
Monitoring the implementation of EU/national care(r) strategies via comparable indicators
Day 2 – 9 September 2022
Policy ‘tour de table’
- Act on Support for Informal Care of Finland – Tuija Mikkola, Folkhälsan Research Center – Finland
- LTC Policy in France – Louise Mary-Defert, Assoc. Française des Aidants – France
- Informal care strategy and surveys in Norway – Anita Vatland, Norwegian Alliance for Informal Carers – Norway
- Acufade/Eurocarers international congress on informal carers – Primoz Skrt, ACUFADE – Spain
- The Long-Term Care Anomaly – Clare Duffy, Family Carers Ireland
- The State of Caring Report 2022 – Family Carers Ireland
- UNECE Ministerial Conference on Madrid Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA) / Rome Ministerial Declaration 2022 / Joint declaration of civil society and scientific research 2022 – Kai Leichsenring, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research – Austria
Tour de table of Research activities
- DETCAREMIX study – Valentine Hlebec, Ljubljana University – Slovenia
- Informal care in Slovenia – Simona Hvalic Touzery, Ljubljana University – Slovenia
- Morbidity among Finnish family caregivers – Tuija Mikkola, Folkhälsan Research Center – Finland
- Bringing VR to palliative care – Patrick Hofer, Pro Aidants – Switzerland
- Overview of activities – Nikki Dunne, Family Carers Ireland
- Good practices supporting carers in Greece – Marina Makri, Greek association of Alzheimer Disease – Greece
- Kaleidoscope, Guiding family carers back to employment – Zoe Hughes, Care Alliance Ireland
- Introduction to the newly-established British Centre for Care – Becky Driscoll, Sheffield University (CIRCLE) – UK
As always, our secretariat (jn@eurocarers.org) remains at your disposal should you have any questions or comments about this event or our activities, in general.
Last Updated on January 19, 2023
