ENIEC is proud to be represented by Gözde Duran, Caroline Smits, and Siiri Viri during the 28th Alzheimer Europe Conference in Barcelona, Spain. Caroline Smits has presented an oral poster presentation on Positives aspects on the relationship between a parent with dementia and their caregiving child and Gödze Duran has facilitated a discussion on Towards Cultural Sensitive Care organizations […]
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AGING, DEMENTIA AND THE NEED FOR CARE
by Elzbieta Czapka Elzbieta Czapka, a postdoc researcher from Oslo Metropolitan University, carries out a study that explores how symptoms of cognitive impairment and dementia are identified, interpreted and responded to in families with different minority backgrounds and in families with Norwegian background. Dementia is a challenge for individuals, families, health personnel and society. […]
Care and support for elderly labour migrants in Belgium by David Talloen and Olivia Vanmechelen
Our ENIEC-members David Talloen and Olivia Vanmechelen wrote an article in the magazine Geron about care and support for elderly labor migrants in Belgium. The migrant workers who came to Belgium 40 to 60 years ago from Southern-Europe, Turkey and Northern Africa have a different social profile as well as different expectations to care. David Talloen and […]
Frankfurter Verband visits the Netherlands
Employees of the Frankfurter Verband, including Ute Bychovski, director of care and Fréderic Lauscher, general director visited organizations in The Hague and Delft. Looking for new ideas and inspiration. They visited the day care center of WZH Transvaal, where they were received by Desha Davies and Suzanne Koot and the care farm BuitenGewoon in Delfgauw, […]
Housing and care of older migrants
Yvonner Witter, Eniec member from The Netherlands, together with Tineke Fokkema have written the article on Housing and care of Older Migrant. The following is a resume of the whole article which was written in Dutch Older migrants, just like Dutch elderly people, prefer to live on their own for as long as possible, especially and preferably […]
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 Frédéric Lauscher from Germany gave a lovely presentation. “Diversity […]
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 […]
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 […]
Empowerment through Participation: Good Practices from work with Ageing Somali Women in Helsinki
By Hanna Rantala, Ruth Franco and Susana Lethovara Report (English) http://www.jadeprojekti.fi/ […]
