As our populations age, the role of carers in our societies is becoming an increasingly central issue. To better understand this role and carers’ realities, Clariane, the leading health and long-term care community in Europe, has sought to shed light on the subject.
The European carer survey, conducted for Clariane by OpinionWay, is designed to study and better understand the population of non-professional carers in six European countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.
In particular, this survey aims to identify the characteristics of this population and measure the scale of their caring commitments
but also to better understand their daily lives, their difficulties, their needs and the emotions they encounter. The study focuses on
regular non-professional carers, defined as those who provide care at least once a week.
To define regular carers, we chose respondents from the 13,488 people in the sample who met the following cumulativecriteria:
- people who report providing care to one or more loved ones with impaired independence due to age, illness or disability;
- who provide this care at least once a week;
- where the care is not exclusively financial but includes psychological, physical, practical or administrative care;
i.e. 3,841 people out of the entire sample interviewed.
