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…
The project team is currently developing the I-CARE training offer addressing trainers who provide training to people working in the social and healthcare sector, on the one hand, and a learning App addressing employees in the social and healthcare sector,…
In the last days of January we met for the first meeting of the project I-CARE. I-CARE stands for Intercultural Care in the Social and Healthcare Sector and aims to promote intercultural skills of care workers to ease their interaction…