Mental Health Week 2026: join the WELL CARE online seminar on 8 May!

Caring for someone can be mentally draining and exhausting. Both informal carers -who provide unpaid care to a loved one outside a formal framework- and professional long-term care (LTC) workers face an increased risk of compromised mental health over time. This event will present cutting-edge research outcomes on how to improve wellbeing and preserve the mental health of informal and professional carers.

The WELL CARE project (2024–2027) aims to guide investment in carers’ mental health and wellbeing by identifying, evaluating and promoting good practices across Europe. It also examines structural factors and develops policy recommendations. Our partnership has been exploring which practices and policies directly improve mental health, as well as those that prevent or mitigate occupational and non-occupational risks.

WELL CARE is grounded in the assumption that integrated care and care partnerships can help reduce these risks, making it particularly relevant to the theme of Mental Health Week, “Stronger Together”.

This webinar will present key findings from a recently finalised report featuring 10 in-depth case studies across five European countries. These practices were selected through extensive mapping and stakeholder engagement, including professionals, users and informal carers. The report highlights their potential in terms of care partnerships, sustainability and transferability. We will also showcase two innovative examples: Community Circles in the Netherlands and E-Qalin in Slovenia, illustrating community-based and quality assurance approaches, and leave space for feed-back and discussion.

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More about the Mental Health Week here