EVENTS & ACTIVITIES
Best Practices in Care Cooperatives released at AGE-Platform EU Annual Assembly
The 2nd Best Practices in Care Cooperatives report was presented on 18th of November at the Annual Assembly of AGE Platform Europe, the voice...
2nd IET International Conference on Technologies for Active and Assisted Living...
In October, the iCareCoops team presented their paper “Implementing WCAG and ISO 9241 in AAL Software Applications - A Case Study” at the 2nd...
AAL Forum 2016 Workshop
iCareCoops participated with a workshop panel about system design and UX at the AAL Forum. At the annual event of the European community of...
STORIES & CASES
Coop start-ups innovating care in Portugal – Link Cooperative International.
Link Cooperatives International - innovating care services in Portugal
Link Cooperatives International, CRL (Link) is a cooperative start‐up based on the commitments of "Co-ops for...
Grupo SSI: a coop empowering female care workers
Servicios Sociales Integrados Sociedad Cooperativa (S.S.I.) aims to empower home care providers, who are for the vast majority women. The cooperative, addressing the needs...
Cooperative for all, cooperator for life: creating an inclusive society one...
A personal tale of life-long cooperation in a small Slovenian community. Lenka Puh tells us about intergenerational cooperation, importance of cooperative practice and community...
RESEARCH & INSIGHTS
Final testing of the iCareCoops platform
Slovenian project partner ZDUS just finished testing of the third version of the iCareCoops web platform, created to support the exchange of information about...
ILO: A global study on cooperative responses to growing care needs
Today, the need for care is growing worldwide, driven by demographic shifts and the rising number of persons living with chronic illnesses. I come...
AGE Platform Europe launches the new version of the toolkit on...
You can now consult here the updated version of the toolkit on the dignity and wellbeing of older persons in need of care. This publication is...
TECHNOLOGIES & SOLUTIONS
Will the iCareCoop app be a game changer?
Today there is an app for everything. Apple's commercials make us all remember the phrase “There’s an app for that”. And soon there is...
Dôme: coordinated multi-platform home care for independent living
Dôme is the solution for the coordination of interventions and the sharing of information within the framework of the care of a dependent person...
SOCIALCARE – App building supportive networks enabling elderly people to stay...
SOCIALCARE brings smart technology into the care sector to strengthen social bounds and empower elderly people to stay at their homes.
Innovative technology changes all...
KNOWLEDGE & ADVICE
Dôme: coordinated multi-platform home care for independent living
Dôme is the solution for the coordination of interventions and the sharing of information within the framework of the care of a dependent person...
AGE Platform Europe launches the new version of the toolkit on...
You can now consult here the updated version of the toolkit on the dignity and wellbeing of older persons in need of care. This publication is...
Changing the Nature of Social Care: The Coop Way
There has been much attention over recent times from the UK media about the “care crisis”, the aging of the population and the plight...