Well Care

The goal of the WELL CARE project is to strengthen the supports available to long-term care workers and informal carers to improve their resilience and mental wellbeing.

The project consortium will do this by contributing to the identification, improvement/adaptation and implementation on a wide scale of innovative solutions for addressing care partnerships.

The project will investigate what are the good practices that directly improve long-term care workers and informal carers’ mental health, as well as those which prevent or mitigate the occupational risks (e.g. heavy workload, stressful working conditions, risk of exposure to infectious agents, precariousness, ethical stress) and non-occupational risks (based on factors such as gender, age, migration background, socio-economic status, and the quality of the care partnership) affecting their mental health.

WELL CARE will select, model and promote such innovative solutions. Our fieldwork with good practices and solution prototypes will be focused on 5 EU countries, i.e. Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Slovenia, and Sweden. These countries were selected to capture contrasting features of (formal and informal) LTC systems in Europe and The goal of the WELL CARE project is to strengthen the supports available to long-term care workers and informal carers to improve their resilience and mental wellbeing.