Working Group 4 (WG4): Care Receiver’s Safety Pieces for the New Care Economy

Working Group 4 (WG4): Care Receiver’s Safety Pieces for the New Care Economy
Working Group 4 (WG4): Care Receiver’s Safety Pieces for the New Care Economy

Overview

WG4 focuses on care receivers’ safety in the context of deinstitutionalization, aiming to improve the quality of home care, support caregivers (particularly women), and promote ethical, organizational and training-based solutions for safer care practices.

Best Practices Collection & Guidelines

Status: In Progress

WG4 is currently gathering best practices, focused on existing gaps in the curricula to incorporate tools and strategies to empower caregivers for a safe caring and training needs and even adaptations at home to address the provision of safe care in the scheme of the new care economy.

Meetings

The first in-person meeting was held on February 27–28, 2024, at the Frankfurt House of Logistics and Mobility (HOLM), with 38 participants attending.

Online meeting took place on July 17, 2025.

Thursday, October 16 – Online meeting WG1 and WG4

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