Care provision within families and its socio-economic impact on care providers

The European Commission (DG EMPL) invited tenders for a study of care provision within families and the socio-economic impact of family care-giving. The tender was won by a team of researchers from the Social Policy Research Unit, University of York, England and Vilans, the Dutch Expertise Centre on Long-Term Care. Both organisations are founding research members of Eurocarers; Eurocarers is an EUwide network of organisations representing carers’ interests or providing services to carers, together with leading research organisations with particular expertise in carers’ policy and practice issues. The mission of Eurocarers is to highlight the situation of carers within EU and member state policy forums (www.eurocarers.org).