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💡 EU Validation Workshop: Driving the Future of Elderly Care   On the 5th of September 2024, the Eldicare 2.0 consortium conducted a workshop to validate the methodology and findings of the report, EU Blueprint: The Visioning of the To-Be Elderly Care Providers. The workshop explored the impact of COVID-19 on older people and their care, identified existing skills gaps, and assessed the evolving needs of the workforce in this critical sector. Key insights from the discussion: ✅ Uniform skill gaps across Europe, including language, digital, and entrepreneurial skills. ✅ Migrant workers are essential to elderly care, but there’s a pressing need to improve the recognition of their qualifications and offer legal support to employers navigating migration policies. ✅ A holistic approach involving governments, VET providers, and local authorities is crucial to creating a person-centred care system. ✅ Digital skills are vital for both online training and on-the-job technology use, while more research is needed to address the financial burden of training. This workshop allowed us to refine these recommendations and take steps to ensure the elderly receive the care they deserve. 🌟 Let’s keep pushing for innovative solutions in elderly care!    #Eldicare #ElderlyCare #Upskilling #Reskilling #PersonCentredCare #MigrantWorkers #HealthcareTraining #DigitalSkills #WorkforceDevelopment iekAKMIedu | AKMI International | Aktios Elderly Care | ACQUIN e.V. | BK CON | Asociace poskytovatelů sociálních služeb České republiky | Metropolitan College Global Engagement | FNAQPA | Gérontopôle AURA | Lares Mayores | ÖJAB – Österreichische JungArbeiterBewegung / Austrian Young Workers Movement | Blocks Health and Social Care | DAYANA-X Ltd. | Eurocarers | EUROPEAN AGEING NETWORK (EAN) | European Social Network | European Association of Institutes for Vocational Training (EVBB) | European Vocational Training Association - EVTA

🌍 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 🌍 Today, EFFE joined the European Commission’s conference focused on long-term care challenges, spotlighting joint efforts to improve affordability, availability, and quality of care while tackling workforce issues and supporting informal carers. Key stakeholders—from the #EU, OECD - OCDE, World Health Organization, International Labour Organization, and beyond—gathered to pave the way for sustainable, high-quality care solutions. At the event, EFFE’s General Delegate, Aude Boisseuil, emphasized the unique challenges facing domestic & home care workers employed by families and individuals. She highlighted the crucial need for formal recognition and support for this sector, which often lacks adequate legal and professional structures. The General Delegate underscored the need for: 🔹 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 for workers who perform diverse essential roles—from childcare to eldery care and daily household tasks . 🔹𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 that support user-employers, helping them access collective bargaining and formalize employment. 🔹𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 to make declared work affordable, tackling undeclared work, and ensuring sector sustainability. Through initiatives like the PHS Dialogue Project, EFFE is committed to advancing social dialogue and creating a structured, professionalized framework for domestic and home care. A huge thank you to the European Commission for this invaluable platform to discuss the future of care in Europe. 👉 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eznFxVva #LongTermCare #EuropeanCareStrategy #SocialDialogue #HomeCare #CareForCarers

📣 SAVE THE DATE 📣 🗓 📌 On the 14th of October, employers' organisations in Personal and Household Services (PHS) – EFFE & EFSI - European Federation for Services to Individuals, will host an Online webinar on “Organising #PHServices employers - Identifying capacity-building needs”. Register your interest 👉 [email protected] #CapacityBuilding #SocialDialogue #DomesticWork #Care #HomeCare

💡 According to Eurostat, in the EU among those aged 75 and over, almost 90% require help, but fewer than 42% receive it.    💼 Public spending on professional long-term care is low, representing only 1.7% of GDP in 2019. Currently, around six million people work in the care sector, but estimates suggest the bloc will require another 1.6 million care workers by 2050.    🏁 Eldicare 2.0 aims to update the occupational profiles and competencies of professionals in the caregiving sector, providing a sectoral long-term strategy that will tackle skill gaps on the labour market, and anticipate future skill needs.    ✅ Join the Eldicare 2.0 journey and let's reshape the landscape of elderly care together!  🔗 Read more at Euronews: https://lnkd.in/dcjQQa3t   #Eldicare #ElderlyCare #ErasmusPlus #VET #EU #EUVocationalExcellence #EUVocationalSkills #healthcare #healthcareprofessionals #vocationaltraining #healthyageing    AKMI International | Aktios | Μητροπολιτικό Κολλέγιο | ACQUIN e.V. | BK CON | Asociace poskytovatelů sociálních služeb České republiky | FNAQPA | Gérontopôle AURA | Lares Mayores | ÖJAB – Österreichische JungArbeiterBewegung / Austrian Young Workers Movement | Blocks Health and Social Care | Eurocarers | DAYANA H | European Ageing Network (EAN) | European Social Network | European Association of Institutes for Vocational Training (EVBB) | European Vocational Training Association - EVTA 

NEW: L&W report outlines how to better support disabled people and people with long-term health conditions into work. 📑 This research for Health Equals sets out recommendations for UK government, devolved national and regional administrations. https://lnkd.in/eMZVZcsU Since 2022, L&W has argued that an 80% employment rate promises benefits to people and the economy: https://lnkd.in/epX3s_7T 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dxqn4HFw 🔗 💡 But to achieve this we’ll need to join up work, health and skills, and work with employers on recruitment and retention. The report finds ableism to be prevalent within employment support and many employers lack awareness of how to support disabled people or those with LTHCs. Read the report in full: https://lnkd.in/eMZVZcsU 🔗 This is the first of three papers for Health Equals exploring the relationship between health and work, so stay tuned for more! We’re pleased to be a member of Health Equals, a group of individuals and organisations campaigning to widen access to the building blocks of health. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/ew7w8Ee7

🇪🇺Long-term care needs are expected to grow tremendously in the EU over the next few decades, and it is not just about those aged 65+. In 2024, the European Commission's Joint Research Centre reported a staggering increase in demand within the elderly care sector. By 2070, approximately 21% more individuals aged 50 and older are estimated to require long-term care, compared to the demand in 2020. 🌍Expanding the workforce is a crucial starting point to tackle this challenge. An essential aspect of this strategy is ensuring that the workforce is not only sufficient in numbers but also highly skilled to meet the pressing needs of long-term care recipients. 💻With global technological advancements, the nature of long-term care is evolving. Care providers must now be digitally competent to utilize an array of digital assessment tools and monitoring systems to ensure high-quality care. Eldercare 2.0 addresses this need by updating current occupational profiles with essential new skills for elderly care practitioners. In addition to digital literacy, it emphasises other emerging skill areas such as green skills, entrepreneurship, and patient-centred care. This approach aims to both upskill and reskill caregivers to seamlessly meet the skills demands of the future. iekAKMIedu | AKMI International | Aktios Elderly Care | ACQUIN e.V. | BK CON | Asociace poskytovatelů sociálních služeb České republiky | Metropolitan College Global Engagement | FNAQPA | Gérontopôle AURA | Lares Mayores | ÖJAB – Österreichische JungArbeiterBewegung / Austrian Young Workers Movement | Blocks Health and Social Care | DAYANA-X Ltd. | Eurocarers | EUROPEAN AGEING NETWORK (EAN) | European Social Network | European Vocational Training Association - EVTA | European Association of Institutes for Vocational Training (EVBB)

Super article from Jill Pritchard on the impact of home adaptations on health and care. Featuring case studies that highlight how these modifications not only improve quality of life, but also align with the recent NHS Confederation report... which identifies home adaptations as the highest-returning intervention in health and social care. #Homeadaptations #UKhousing #Socialcare #Retrunoninvestment

Diversity, equity and inclusion in healthcare, in particular Aged Care, is an important topic that hasn't been discussed widely in a broader context than looking specifically at the New Zealand or Pacific people's cultural foundations. In NZ healthcare where a lot of our workforce have immigrated from the likes of the Philippine's, India, UK and other countries, it's important all those new to NZ are supported into the NZ healthcare systems culture. For example, a manager placing two people of different economic status together in the workplace where one is senior to the other, should take into account their ethnicity origins and cultural status. It may be challenging for a Doctor from a lower socio-economic part of India for example, to give directions to a Nurse who is from a much higher socio-economic background in the same country. Will a female Doctor have an effective outcome in directing a male Nurse from countries where females may be seen as subservient to males? Not only is their working relationship influenced by working in aged care in NZ which may be a completely new and different clinical setting, but both have biases which may affect their ability to work effectively together. The following also raises some interesting points.. https://lnkd.in/gZW67UBQ

ONE WEEK TO GO! Have you registered to join us for the Social Care Research in NIHR Policy Research Units webinar? 🗨️ Register here to join:👉 https://lnkd.in/eei_rZQK Date: Wed 11 December 2024 Time: 2pm-5pm GMT A series of webinars are being organised by the NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) Policy Research Unit in Adult Social Care (ASCRU) with the aim of showcasing ongoing social care research in NIHR Policy Research Units. The NIHR Policy Research Units (PRUs) are funded by the NIHR in England to undertake research to inform government and arms-length bodies making policy decisions about health and #SocialCare. The units create a critical mass of experts for research in priority areas for health and social care policy. 🔍 These webinars are held online, open to all, but focused on informing DHSC policy makers, and so the emphasis is on policy messages rather than detailed discussions about methods. Programme 📜 14.00: Welcome 14.05: Wages and labour supply in the Adult Social Care sector, Dr Florin Vadean 14.35: Do staff employment conditions make a difference to care outcomes? Dr Stephen Allan 15.05: Improving the quality of dementia -specific education for the care workforce: evidence review to inform future policy, Professors Claudia Cooper and Yvonne Birks 15.35: Break 15.50: Understanding the functionality of Integrated Care to optimise physical and mental health, Dr Alison R. McKinlay 16.20: Gender bias in large language models in long-term care, Sam Rickman SECURE YOUR SPOT NOW: https://lnkd.in/eei_rZQK Department of Health and Social Care

📑 How can we better support disabled people and those with long-term health conditions into sustainable work? This report from the Learning and Work Institute, commissioned by Health Equals, explores effective practices and offers key recommendations for the government, devolved administrations, and local authorities to improve employment outcomes. With 2.8 million working-age people currently long-term sick, this is both a social and economic opportunity. Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/ejNAjtGK #DisabilityEmployment