The 2023 ENIEC AM in Gdansk through the eyes of Charlotte Haggren

This was my second Annual Meeting with ENIEC. My first in the Hague last year. As I have been to Gdansk privately I did not join the guided trip but joined  in the Regional Center for Social Policy where Agnieszka Zabłocka Deputy Director of Regional Center for Social Policy described the Polish migration context in East-West […]

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ENIEC member Eva Rönkkö defends her PhD thesis on sport for foreign-born seniors Cum Laude

On 20 of January, I defended my PhD Theses: Being Along but Excluded – an Ethnographic Study of supervised group exercise with foreign-born women. My task was to increase the understanding regarding factors that arise when local sports culture and being foreign-born come together. So, I wanted to know: what kinds of diversity and/or experiences […]

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Norwegian webpage on older immigrants and dementia

Reaching older people with digital information can be difficult. So, to make sure those close to the older immigrants are informed of best practice, health care options, and judicial rights, we included health care personnel and family as part of the webpage’s target group. Health communication is necessary in disease prevention and health promotion. Having […]

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Ongoing InCARE survey on long-term care: we need your help!

ENIEC-member Lola Casal-Sanchez is involved as PhD in the InCare project. Lola: ‘The InCARE project (co-funded by the European Union) team is inviting you to share your point of view through a general population survey on experiences, attitudes, and expectations on long-term care. We also hope for your support in disseminating the survey (currently available […]

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Saloua Berdai, PhD receives Doctorate University of Brussels

On the 13th of October, ENIEC member Saloua Berdai, PhD received her doctorate at Vrije Universiteit Brussels. The thesis, titled Grasping fading memories of a motherland: Capturing dynamic care realities of older labor migrants with dementia explored how family carers and professionals care for older labour migrants with dementia and how researchers can study older […]

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Register for the AM 2022!

Just a few months waiting and then we will finally reconnect and meet in The Hague. A lot of preparation is going on. Several Dutch members are working together in the Organising Committee and we are also reaching out to partners in The Hague who like to share their knowledge but above all like to […]

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A Study on Diversity-Mainstreaming of Elderly Care in the Netherlands

Written by Hanna Carlsson In the Netherlands, like many other immigration countries, diversity-mainstreaming policies have become common. The goal of diversity-mainstreaming policies is that health and social care services are inclusive to people from all cultural, ethnic, and religious backgrounds. While the idea behind policies can be good, the question is how they impact people […]

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