Smart Homecare - CARER+ Final Conference, Paris, 27 March 2015

1. Family needs related to
homecare
Marina Robben, IFFD world President
www.iffd.org
www.familyperspective.org
CARER +
Final Conference
Smart Homecare: investing in skills
and service delivery
27th March 2015
Palais de Luxembourg
Paris - France

2. The International Federation
for Family Development - IFFD
General consultative status, UN ECOSOC
A federation of non-governmental, non-
denominational, non-profit, independent and
private Family Enrichment Centers
Present in 66 countries on the 5 continents
European project: FamiliesAndSocieties
http://www.familiesandsocieties.eu

3. Our focus on informal carers
• Growing recognition of intergenerational dialogue and
solidarity
• Informal carers relied upon as the main providers of long-term
care …
• …But what kind of support for them? Respite care, financial
support and training

4. Housework and care: priorities
• Valuing household chores
and supporting status for care
workers
• Respecting free choice of
each family
• Make it compatible with
professional lives, parenting
and equitable sharing of
housework
• Professionalization, legal
regularization and social
consideration

5. Attention to elderly and dependent
• Dependent is not only the elderly or sick person, but also the
child who needs to be accompanied until reaching maturity
• Transmission of values: development of personality and self-
esteem
• IFFD, 19th family Congress “Family: meeting place for
generations” (16-18 October 2015, Mexico)

6. Parenting and
favouring
intergenerational
solidarity
IFFD courses
Our aim is to assist parents in the
challenge of raising and educating
their children; facilitating the
interaction and exchange of ideas
and experiences among couples and
dealing with intergenerational
solidarity
• First steps: 0 – 3 years
• First letters: 4 – 7 years
• First decisions: 8 – 11 years
• Pre-adolescence: 11 – 13 years
• Adolescence: 14 – 17 years
• Grandparents

7. Challenges and responses for family carers
• No professional skills or
training
• How to combine family and
professional life with the
home care provided to the
relative?
• Lack of recognition
• Technology, a way to provide
more effective care
• State support for family
carers: government subsidies,
fiscal deduction and
allowances

8. Thank you for your
attention!
www.iffd.org
www.familyperspective.org