Helpcare Project

To develop and transfer innovative practices in education for the qualification and professionalization of health and social care workers that can be adapted and adopted across the EU28 to make better use of the existing workforce through training.

The project also encourages young people to view health and social care work as a career choice with recognised routes for progression.

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Training and Professionalization of Care Workers across Europe Event - The launch of the Helpcare Training and Professionalization of Care Workers across Europe event within the Health +Care conference and exhibition was a tremendous experience for the project team. We directly engaged with over 200 delegates and were able to…

Helpcare has been established as the World Health Organisation has noted the global shortage in home and health care assistants, immigration within the EU has been seen as a partial solution for this. Movement of care workers to higher income countries has become common, for example in Italy the proportion of care workers who were not native Italians increased from 20% in 2001 to 81% by 2006.

Many home care assistants are part of the informal economy which may be decreasing the quality of care the vulnerable need. There are still issues recruiting enough care workers amongst other issues of care provision throughout Europe. The increasing number of very old people (over 85) will place additional demands on systems in place to support and care for the elderly within their homes and the rising participation of women in the workforce across the EU will have an impact on the amount of informal care that that relatives can offer their family members. Here are some of the main issues;

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