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Unpaid / informal care
10 Apr 2026
New WHO course to support informal carers across Europe
The World Health Organization’s (Regional Office for Europe) have developed an online training course Care and Self-care Competences for Informal Caregivers in Europe. Developed with the financial support of the European Commission and in collaboration with Eurocarers, this course aims to contribute to more responsive, inclusive, and sustainable care systems which protect and empower both those […]
01 Oct 2025
GOLTC Blog post: Family Care and the Limits of Ageing in Place in South Africa
In this post Vayda Megannon, Elena Moore and Zeenat Samodien (University of Cape Town) share a new study of the Family Caregiving Programme, undertaken across seven sites in the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces. The study engaged with 96 older persons and 103 family caregivers to explore the lived dynamics of elder care. The findings reveal that […]
03 Jun 2025
GOLTC webinar recording: Estimating the Cost of Informal Care with a Novel Two-Stage Approach to Individual Synthetic Control
Estimating the Cost of Informal Care with a Novel Two-Stage Approach to Individual Synthetic Control GOLTC QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL METHODS Interest Group webinar Date: 27 May 2025 Time: 14:00 – 15:00 BST Informal carers provide the majority of care for people living with challenges related to older age, long-term illness, or disability. However, the care they […]
09 Nov 2023
Transforming Care Book Seminars: Unpaid Work in Nursing Homes: Flexible Boundaries, 4th December 2023
Transforming Care Book Series Seminar 4 December 2023, Global Webinar (16:30–18:00 CET) This Transforming Care Network seminar will present and discuss a new open access book: Unpaid Work in Nursing Homes: Flexible Boundaries, part of the Transforming Care book series. The rationale for the book is that the COVID-19 pandemic has made unpaid care more […]