Earlier this month the European Commission presented the European Care Strategy to ensure quality, affordable and accessible care services across the European Union and improve the situation for both care receivers and the people caring for them, professionally or…
A new study from Ireland pours more light onto the strategies family career use to reconcile their professional and caring responsibilities. Despite the value placed on work by family carers, if it comes to choosing between the roles of…
The World Health Organisation recently published a factsheet on the impact of care on carers’ health and well-being. Some of the highlights include: Most long-term care in Europe is provided by unpaid informal caregivers Women are overrepresented among caregivers…
What if we considered informal care as a work experience that provides many opportunities to acquire job relevant skills and transfer them to the future job? This article published on Forbes focuses on key skills that informal carers are…
Informal carers who have to combine caregiving with paid work often face income losses or have to leave the labour market entirely. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the situation worsened and informal carers were even more at risk of poverty…
Unpaid informal care has formed the invisible backbone of our society. There are about 100 million family carers providing about 80% of care across Europe. Without them our health and social systems would crumble but they are still far…