Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SAFELDER (POINT ACTIVE AGEING ASSISTIVE SERVICE – A MULTI-SENSOR SINGLE DEVICE FOR SMART MONITORING OF THE ELDERLY PEOPLE)
Reporting period: 2018-09-01 to 2019-02-28
As the disease progresses, a senior usually requires more and more care. This, sooner or later, leads an informal caregiver (most of them are women) to the decision on job resignation: 21% of informal carers in Europe reduced their working hours and 18% withdraw from the labour market. Currently approx. 42% of non-working carers are in the lowest income quartile and 59% of non-working carers have difficulty making ends meet (compared to 24% and 46% for non-carers respectively).