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This article illustrates the implications of two recent trends on family carers' health: the employment of home-based migrant care workers; and the provision of web-based supports. The main factors traditionally associated with carers' health are used to analyse the results of a six-country study via a multilevel linear regression. Attention will be dedicated to the role of migrant care workers, who are often hired by private households to provide eldercare. Finally, web-based services for carers will be investigated by considering InformCare, a recently implemented European platform tested on a sample of carers from three countries (Germany, Italy and Sweden).

Depuis une dizaine d'années, un nombre croissant d'Italiens embauche, à titre privé, des travailleurs migrants, pour des services d'aide à domicile. Ces aidants sont souvent hébergés chez l'employeur et s'occupent des personnes âgées fragiles. Ce phénomène a pris une ampleur considérable, avec une sorte d'«ethnicisation» du secteur des soins aux seniors. En effet, les ménages italiens sont de moins en moins en mesure de procurer une aide informelle, comme le voulait la tradition. Ce changement s'explique par la progression de l'emploi féminin, ainsi que par les différents mécanismes d'allocations versées pour pourvoir aux soins, susceptibles d'être cumulées (et qui sont préférées à la fourniture directe de soins), et par la vision culturelle encore «familialiste» qui explique l'aversion pour le placement en institut spécialisé. Cet article propose un aperçu des grandes tendances qui gouvernent actuellement l'offre et la demande d'aide et de soins aux personnes âgées en Italie, sous l'angle de la démographie, du marché du travail et de l'aide sociale, esquissant notamment les motivations qui poussent les familles italiennes à embaucher des aidants migrants à domicile, ainsi que les difficultés auxquelles ceux-ci sont confrontés, et conclut sur une analyse du rôle de médiation que pourrait jouer l'Union européenne pour traiter ce phénomène qui progresse à l'échelle internationale.

AbstractTo promote long-term care policies for older adults, accurate mapping of the often invisible and insufficiently recognized role of their informal caregivers is needed. This paper measures the prevalence of informal caregivers in the European population, illustrates current difficulties in gathering unequivocal information on this topic and deals with the scientific and policy implications of the problem. Using the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS), the European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) and the Study on Health and Ageing in Europe (SHARE), the current difficulties in gathering unequivocal information on this topic are illustrated. In most countries, the share of informal caregivers varies, sometimes markedly, among the three surveys. As for the sex of caregivers, while confirming the well-known higher prevalence of caregivers among women than among men, large variations emerge across the three surveys in most countries in respect of the two sexes. The takeaway message of the paper is that it is urgent to promote international concerted action in gathering comprehensive informal caregiving information and/or exploring in greater depth the different intercultural understandings of informal care itself.

In dem Beitrag werden die Ergebnisse einer Online-Umfrage informeller Pflegepersonen in Europa vorgestellt. Ziel dieser Studie, die von Eurocarers in Zusammenarbeit mit dem italienischen National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing (INRCA IRCCS) gefördert wurde, war es zu analysieren, wie sich der Covid-19-Ausbruch auf die Bedingungen informeller Pflegekräfte auswirkte, und die Wünsche dieser Pflegepersonen hinsichtlich einer besseren Unterstützung in Pandemiezeiten zu erheben. Die Gelegenheitsstichprobe umfasste 2468 Betreuer aus 17 Ländern, wobei die meisten Befragten aus Tschechien, Estland, Finnland, Deutschland, Italien, Portugal und Schweden antworteten. Aus den Ergebnissen können Handlungsempfehlungen in verschiedenen Bereichen abgeleitet werden: ein ausgewogener Zugang von pflegenden Angehörigen zum Arbeitsmarkt (z. B. durch Anerkennung ihrer Betreuungskompetenzen) ; Stärkung der Strategien zur Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Privatleben ; Sicherstellung von Rentengutschriften auf der Grundlage von Pflegezeiten ; Förderung integrierter Dienste und Informationen ; Einbindung informeller Pflegekräfte als Mitgestalter von Fördermaßnahmen, auch durch nutzerfreundliche digitale Lösungen.

Although the active ageing concept generally has positive connotations, with expected benefits at the micro, meso and macro levels, the application of this concept in terms of policy making presents challenges and risks to be avoided (for instance, a predominantly productivist interpretation and a top-down imposition with limited possibilities for bottom-up exchanges; or a disregard for the risk of excluding older people with more disadvantaged backgrounds). Two crucial strategies to minimise risks are the implementation of policies by considering and respecting territorial diversity, and the involvement of all the relevant stakeholders in a participatory consultative and co-decisional approach. This paper entwines both strategies together by focusing on Italian in-country differences in terms of active ageing, and employing the Active Ageing Index for policy-making purposes. This activity is part of a governmental national pilot project aimed at promoting multilevel co-managed co-ordination of active ageing policies across Italy. The analysis identified five groups of regions that differ from the classical, geographic and socio-economic division between the North, Centre and South. Additional in-group analyses were conducted to investigate within-cluster differences. This study will inform a large multilevel stakeholder network for evidence-based policies and their monitoring at both the national and regional levels, in line with the perspective of mainstreaming ageing.

The members of the International Network for the Analysis of Intergenerational Relations (Generationes) proudly present the most recent issue of the jointly produced compendium "Generations, Intergenerational Relations and Generational Policy".

This new version includes seven languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish (New) and Portuguese (New)). Its layout is designed for using it to translate the specific concepts and terminology of research into generations and intergenerational relations from one language into another.

The members of the International Network for the Analysis of Intergenerational Relations (Generationes) proudly present the most recent issue of the jointly produced compendium "Generations, Intergenerational Relations and Generational Policy".

This new version includes 12 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish (new), Hungarian (new), Turkish (new), Romanian (new), and Lithuanian (new). The layout of the compendium is designed for using it to translate the specific concepts and terminology of research into generations and intergenerational relations from one language into another.

The members of 'GENERATIONES' (INSII: International Network for the Study of Intergenerational Issues)), are very pleased to announce the publication of the definitive Edition '17 of the compendium 'Generations, Intergenerational Relationships, Generational Policy'. Based on an original text in German, the compendium presents and discusses the key concepts of intergenerational research in a systematic way. Its approach is characterized by the assumption that the forms of intergenerational relationships in families and kinship, institutions and communities is playing a fundamental role in the construction of individual and collective identities, and therefore in the development of societies. A cross-cultural, comparative approach accounting for linguistic diversity provides a promising avenue for theoretical, empirical and practical work in this currently crucially field for the social sciences, humanities and social policy. The Edition '17 includes 17 languages: German, French, English, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Rumanian, Swedish, Lithuanian, Turkish, Slovenian, Bosnian-Herzegovinian, Ukrainian, Russian and Chinese. The compendium can be used as a tool for inter- and intracultural comparisons. Its layout facilitates the comparison between versions, which can be downloaded individually and in different combinations. The project has been financially supported by the cluster of excellence 'Cultural Foundation of Integration' of the University of Konstanz, Germany.