Useful Links - Documents | Dignified Ageing

At international level

• UNECE Policy Brief on elder abuse, 2013
• OECD report on 'A good life in old age?', 2013

• WHO European Report on Preventing Elder mistreatment, 2011
• UN Open-ended working group on ageing
• OECD report on 'Help wanted? Proving and paying for long-term care'
• Long-term care in the European Union

 

At EU level

• Social Protection Committee report and Key messages on long-term care (2014)
• European Parliament report on 'Impact of the crisis on access to care for vulnerable people' (2013)
• European Commission Staff Working Document on long-term care (2013)
• Tracking Quality of life in Europe (Eurofound, 2013), with three reports on Subjective wellbeing, Quality of society and public services, Social inequalities
• Facts and Figures on Healthy ageing and Long-term care (Eurocenter, 2012)
• Peer reviews AGE statements: Dignity in care (2013) and Care needs (2011)
• The voluntary European Quality Framework for Social Services of General Interest
• Contracting for Quality (2010, ESN and Eurocenter)
• European Parliament Resolution on “Long-term care for older people” (2008)
• Eurobarometer on “Health and long-term care in the EU” (2007)
• E-Qualin quality management system
• Eurocentre  Policy brief: Active ageing and prevention in the context of LTC (rethinking concepts and practices)

 

European Projects

• WeDO2 project developing educational tools based on the EU quality framework for LTC services
• The WeDO EU quality framework for long-term care services (2012) and Good practices collected through the WeDO project (+240)
• EUSTACEA (European Charter of the rights and responsibilities of older people in need of LTC and assistance)
• EU Projects on elder abuse: Mind the Gap! and IPVOW, The EUROPEAN project, The Breaking the taboo 2 project, AVOW, Train Improve Reduce, ABUEL
• The Perssilaa project (2013)
• The Interlinks project

• The ANCIEN long-term care project
• Quality Manage­ment by Result-oriented Indicators - Towards Benchmarking in Resi­dential Care for Older People

• The MILCEA project - Monitoring in Long term care Pilot project on elder abuse
• The PRISMA Project (end of life care)
• The Procare project on integrated care
• The Prometheus project on a Common quality framework for social services

• The EUROFAMCARE project (Janv. 2003-Dec. 2005)

A European review of the situation of family carers of elderly people in relation to the existence, familiarity, availability, use and acceptability of supporting services... and any (other) supporting measures / ideas / concepts /...

• The FELICIE project, Future Elderly Living Conditions In Europe

The objective of this project was to forecast the living arrangements of people aged 75+ in the next thirty years. It resulted in an estimate of their needs, through an evaluation of the future demand for nursing homes and for informal and formal care. 

• Dignity and Older Europeans (2002-2004)

an international research project which brings together a range of academics, clinicians, and user groups to explore the concept of dignity in the lives of Older Europeans. The project spans 3 years until December 2004 and involves 8 partners from 6 European countries including UK, France, Ireland, Spain, Sweden and Slovakia.

• C.A.S.A - Care Assistants Agency Search (2008-2010)

CASA is a European project supported by the European Fund for the Integration of Third-country Nationals Community Actions.It addresses the increasing need for long term and quality care of older people and people with disabilities by facilitating and supporting the integration of third countries nationals in the EU. The aim is to improve the quality of care of people in need and help immigrants, in particular women, find better jobs and facilitate their social and economic integration into European Society.The partnership will model an Agency to marry the increasing demand for long term carers with the supply of workers from third countries. The Agency model will be tested in 3 EU Member States (Germany, Italy and Greece) with the long term objective of being transferred across the EU.

• ANCIEN - Assessing needs of care in European nations (2009-2013)

ANCIEN is a research project financed under the 7th EU Research Framework Programme. The project includes 20 partners from EU member states. It concerns the future of long-term care for the elderly in Europe. The questions we ask in ANCIEN are 1) How will need, demand, supply and use of LTC develop? 2) How do different systems of LTC perform? The project proceeds in consecutive steps of collecting and analysing information and projecting future scenarios on long term care needs, use, quality assurance and system performance. State of the art demographic, epidemiologic and econometric modelling will be used to interpret and project needs, supply and use of long term care over future time periods for different long term care systems.