Conny van der Aalsvort In this meeting Tina Pan, Conny van der Aalsvoort and the participants shared their experiences with the Chinese elderly in their countries. We learned from each other but especially from Tina Pan who presented some results from her study amongst Chinese elderly in Belgium and The Netherlands. The Chinese elderly are […]
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Annual Meeting 2018: Impression of a first time ENIEC member
Anndeloris Chacon Bristol Black Carers say “Thank You” Mr. Marvin Rees, Mayor of Bristol for introducing us to European Network on Intercultural Elderly Care. It was an honour to be the first English speaking member of ENIEC and to represent my charity, the city of Bristol and United Kingdom. Our charity is working with unpaid/informal […]
Annual Meeting 2018: Organizer’s perspective to the ENIEC Annual Meeting 2018
Hanna Rantala For the past five years, I have attended an ENIEC Annual Meeting. Every Spring I look forward to the yearly meeting and its many inspiring conversations, the new ideas I can go home with, the new colleagues I make. This year, I had the chance to look behind the scenes and see what […]
Annual Meeting 2018: A perspective from the board
Spain welcomed ENIEC network with rain and wind for the very first time. Some of us might have thought that Spain is always warm and shiny, but we took that weather change as a lesson: things are not always as we assume. The ENIEC registration to the AM and the welcome ceremony was held in […]
Annual Meeting 2018: Incorporating into diversity and inclusion into municipal elderly care service centres
Susanna Lehtovaara: Incorporating into diversity and inclusion into municipal elderly care service centres In the ENIEC AM, two Susanas held a workshop about social accessibility with the help of Eva Rönkkö. At the beginning, Susana (no. 1) showed us a video by their LGBT foundation about the situation of their members living in Madrid. After […]
Annual Meeting 2018: Loneliness, exclusion from services and the meaning of social relations in the lives of elderly migrants/minorities
Sari J Heikinnen Idalia Guarnizo Arrobo and Jairo Núñez Criollo. Consulate of Ecuador. Ecuador elderly people in Spain. (Spain) Sari Heikkinen: Intergenerational relations and social relations in the lives of USSR residents in Finland (Finland) Session VI began with the presentation of the Consulate of Ecuador. It was told how the consulate helps people living […]
Annual Meeting 2018: Introduction of the new board members
Why do I want to continue on the Board? I’m a gerontologist, I’m a senior Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences, Laurea, I’m a mother, daughter, sister, wife, friend and a member of ENIEC network. My identity is Finnish, it is Northern European, it is European and it is worldwide. ENIEC network gives all […]
ENIEC board members held its first meeting after the Annual Meeting in April
On 14-16 June, Eniec’s Board Members met in Bristol, UK, at Bristol Black Cares center, an organization that supports careers and those whom they care for to access mainstream care and health related public services. Our Chair, Lola Casal-Sanchez, together Conny van der Aalsvort, treasurer of ENIEC and Sari Heikkinen and Nikki Arnold, board members […]
ENIEC Annual Meeting 2019 will be held in Bristol!
We are glad to inform that for the first time in history, ENIEC will hold its Annual meeting in United Kingdom! On June 15th, the board of ENIEC met with Marvin Rees, Mayor of Bristol, Cllr. Helen Holland, Labour Councillor – Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care, Terry Dafter, Service Director for Adult Social Care, […]
The Hague Accessibility Challenge
The Hague Accessibility Challenge Designing solutions for and with visually impaired people in The Hague Technological and social innovations find their way into our daily lives faster and faster. The inhabitants of The Hague living with a visual disability want to enjoy these innovations as much as anybody else does, but that can prove […]
