[EQ] Informal Carers: Who Takes Care of Them?

Informal Carers: Who Takes Care of Them?

Frédérique Hoffmann and Ricardo Rodrigues
Vienna, Policy Brief - April 2010
European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research

PDF 16 p. at: http://www.euro.centre.org/data/1272461942_23133.pdf
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Until recently, informal care (provided by relatives and friends) has been overlooked by policy-mak­ers in the context of long-term care for dependent older people. Driven by concerns about the fiscal sustainability of long-term care servic­es and by more self-conscious and demanding carers' movements across countries, informal care has been brought into the limelight.

 

Data on carers is still relatively scarce due in part to the nature of the care itself as it is often provided informally at home. In view of this, what do we know about informal carers and who benefits from them? Which country differences exist? Which policies are set in place to support them? This Policy Brief tries to shed light on these issues by using available data from (inter)national sources as well as qualitative information gathered in our recent publication /Facts and Figures on Long-term Care -- Europe and North America/. It seeks to increase knowledge on informal carers and discuss some of the implications surrounding social policies that impact them. The analysis is very much policy-oriented and takes a comparative view, focusing mostly on the wider Europe.

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[EQ] Event: Advanced Technologies, Healthcare Systems & Health Research

Advanced Technologies, Healthcare Systems & Health Research

Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 2:00 pm - Washington DC time

Please check the local time in your own town: http://www.timeandd ate.com/worldclo ck/meeting. html

WHERE:

            Participants in Person:

Location: Delegation of the European Union to the USA

                2175 K Street, N.W., Washington DC 20037

Link to virtual participants:
 https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=1110&password=M.A4FA308B5F1FA6CD60DB62C0137303

 

Focus Topic: The role of advanced technologies in health research and healthcare delivery systems

 

Goals:

 

1.       discuss how well the technologies can transform health data into information, knowledge, understanding

2.      share success stories how the advanced technologies help improve healthcare access, availability, acceptability, cost-effectiveness, continuity, and quality

3.      explore how national and international standards are executed when in projects which acquire or access data, analyze or execute data, distribute data, or archive and retrieve health data across various borders

4.      explore the potential of sharing open source technologies to the maximum extent possible

Agenda:

2:15pm Welcome by Angelos Pangratis, Acting Head of Delegation, Delegation of the European Union to the U.S.

2:30pm Ruxandra Draghia-Akli, MD, PhD, Director for Health Research, European Commission

European Priorities for Global Health Research

2:50pm Charles Mgone, MD, PhD Executive Director, European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership  (EDCCTP)

EDCTP: Success Stories and Lessons Learned

3:10pm Rifat Latifi, MD, FACS, International Virtual e-Hospital Foundation

Telemedicine and e-Health in Developing Countries: Lessons from the Balkans

 

3:25pm – 4:45pm           Panel Discussion

 

Chairs:

 

Mateja de Leonni Stanonik, MD, PhD

Chair, Scientific and Organizing Committee, Department of Neurology, George Washington University

Jim Sherry, MD, PhD, Chairman of Global Health Department, George Washington University

 

Panelists:        

Ruxandra Draghia-Akli, MD, PhD, Director for Health Research, EC

Rifat Latifi, MD, FACS, International Virtual e-Hospital Foundation

Charles Mgone, MD, PhD, Executive Director EDCTP

Jay H. Sanders, MD, President & CEO of The Global Telemedicine Group, Professor  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Pramod Gaur, PhD, Vice President TeleHealth, UnitedHealth Group

David Aylward, BA, JD, Executive Director of the m-Health Alliance, UN Foundation (tbc)

Antonio Hernandez, Senior Advisor, Health Services Physical Infrastructure & Technology, Pan American Health Organization – PAHO/WHO

 

4:45pm – 4:55pm          Closing Remarks

Mateja de Leonni Stanonik, MD, PhD  Chair, Scientific and Organizing Committee

 

 

4:55pm – 5:45pm           Networking Reception

Target audience:                

The diplomatic community of Washington, DC

US Government representatives

Representatives of organizations working in global health

Representatives of health technology & telemedicine

Private business

Representatives of Academic Institutions responsible for Education in public health, global health, and diplomacy

Physicians and all healthcare personnel practicing in global health

Salon Lecture Series: Innovation in Global Health and Development

Main objective: "Meeting of the minds" on issues involving global health and development

Thursday, May 6, 2010 @ 1:30pm
RSVP by May 3 Delegation-USA-ERA@ec.europa.eu	EU Delegation 2175 K Street, NW (use entrance on 22nd St.) Washington, DC 20037

 

 

 

In co-organization with

  

             Embassy of Slovenia                                   

 

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