Croatian Ethnicity in Hungary

By Nikolett Arnold The Croatian minority in Hungary is a very prominent one that also has a minority government and is able to advise the government on minority policy, however does not have a vote in parliament. Croatia is our southern neighbor and througout history the borders of the countries have changed many times, it was […]

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Physical exercise – The corner stone for everyone’s health

Author: Eva Rönkkö In Finland we have got used to the fact that exercise is one of the most important elements building one’s healthy life. For the health related quality of life physical exercise is even more important in the older age than for the younger people.  There are a lot of studies to prove […]

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March 2018. Workshop on Active Ageing, Diversity and interculturality. Madrid

ENIEC and the City Government of Madrid in collaboration with AGevida are organizing an International Workshop on Aging, Interculturality & Diversity on March 22th, under the framework of #EniecAM 2018. The goal of this workshop is to raise awareness and initiate debates in public and among care and health professionals to increase the focus on elderly care of migrants among decision-makers, the […]

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March 2018. ENIEC contribution to the UNHCR Global Compact on Refugees

March 2018. ENIEC contribution to the UNHCR Global Compact on Refugees ENIEC will participate on March 12 at the Side Event, 37th Session of the Human Rights Council, to bring awareness to the needs of older refugees and promote the recommendations submitted to the UNHCR Global Compact on Refugees on the rights of older refugees. Read  […]

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ENIEC contribution to the UNCHR Global Compact on Refugees

ENIEC contribution to the UNCHR Global Compact on Refugees In 2017 ENIEC was invited to participate in the working group lead by The NGO Committee on Ageing to submit recommendations for older refugees to the UNHCR — which will hopefully influence the forthcoming UNHCR Global Compact on Refugees. The New York Declaration on Refugees and […]

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2017, October. Eniec at the Age-friendly Cities Conference The Hague on innovation, health and active ageing.

The city of The Hague has been hosting between 2nd-4th of October the Age-Friendly Cities Conference on innovation, health and active ageing. There was a workshop on the 3rd of October about ‘diversity’. A lot of ENIEC members attended the workshop and where involved. ENIEC member FrĂ©dĂ©ric Lauscher from Germany gave a lovely presentation. “Diversity […]

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KOTOSA – A Project about SubSaharan elderly in Brussels

Kotosa is a documentary about SubSaharan elderly in Brussels, Belgium. Kotosa means ‘to respect’ in Lingala, the official language in the Democratic Republic of Congo. DRC is a former colony of Belgium, so we share a turbulent and at times violent past – and present. In Brussels almost 30 percent of the elderly (65+) have an immigrant background. It’s a very diverse group. Sub-Saharan elderly […]

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The first Finnish guidebook for culture sensitive memory work

The ETNIMU project of The Society for Memory Disorders Expertise in Finland, published a guidebook called “Culture-sensitive memory work: Finnish experience”, meant for the specialists of social and health care sector, on the 3rd of October 2017. The aim of the guidebook is to expand the vision of specialists of how the clients of different […]

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Roma people as a target group in the brain health promotion project ETNIMU in Finland

By Siiri Jaakson, Finland. The Society for Memory Disorders Expertise in Finland has run a project called ETNIMU since 2015. The aim of the project has been to promote the brain health of the elderly from different ethnic backgrounds in Finland. Besides the Roma people, the target groups were chosen to be the Russian, Estonian and […]

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