The gap between elderly migrants and homecare services Flemish homecare services in Brussels still receive few questions from seniors with a migrant background, living in multicultural neighbourhoods. They need care, but do not know the offer or do not ask the question. At the same time, professional homecare workers are less familiar with that super-diverse […]
Confucianism and the later life choices of Chinese elderly in Belgium Tina Pan Vrije Universiteit Brussel Belgium is quite an internationalized country with the presence of EU headquarters, NATO and transnational companies. Of its about 11 million total population people of foreign background and their descendants were estimated to be 25% according to a report […]
Exploring possibilities Belgian-Dutch knowledge network on dementia amongst elderly migrants On the 7th of September ENIEC members Saloua Berdai-Chaouni, Ann Claeys, Conny van der Aalsvoort and Jennifer van den Broeke came together with several Dutch experts in the field of dementia amongst the elderly with a migrant background. The meeting was organized to explore whether […]
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 […]
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 […]
May 2018 A great farewell to Grete! See it here. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 Frédéric Lauscher from Germany gave a lovely presentation. “Diversity […]
