Video 2nd part<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n In the conference, prominent scientists such as Professor of Psychiatry George Christodoulou, Dr Dimitrios Kontis, Dr Kalliopi Panagiotopoulou, Mr. Panagiotis Chondros from NGO EPAPSY, Dr. George Pavlidis from the University of Sheffield and Mr. Alexandros Oikonomou from NGO EDRA gave insights about long term care. Other prominent speakers included Mr.\u00a0Stecy Yghemonos, Executive Director of Eurocarers, Mrs Miia M\u00e4nnikk\u00f6, President of EUFAMI and\u00a0Professor Peykan Gokalp from Turkey. The event which had the support of the\u00a0European Parliament office in Greece and the\u00a0European Commission Representation<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0Greece<\/em>\u00a0gave the opportunity to caregivers such as Mrs Dragana Kistner from Germany and Mrs. Stefania Buoni,\u00a0president and founder of\u00a0COMIP<\/a>\u00a0from Italy to share their personal experiences and discuss the challenges involved in caregiving.<\/p>\n Mr Lorenzo Mannu shared his experience from the perspective of civil service in Italy.The conference was organized by EPIONI with the support of MEP from Czech Republic, Mr\u00a0Tomas Zdechovsky\u00a0(Welcome Speech),<\/a> former MEP Mr Nikos Chrysogelos and MEP from Greece Mrs Kostadinka Kuneva.<\/p>\n Former minister of Education and\u00a0Health Mrs Marietta Giannakou\u00a0delivered a welcome speech.<\/p>\n We would like to thank\u00a0Interamerican, Pharmaserve Lilly and AMKE Aegeas for their generous support and\u00a0www.psychologynow.gr<\/a>,\u00a0www.socialpolicy.gr<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0www.iatronet.gr<\/a>\u00a0for being the media sponsors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EPIONI on September the 28th 2018, organized at the office of the European Parliament in Athens, a conference focusing on young caregivers. The event was under the auspices of the Ministry of Health in Greece, the World Federation for Mental Health, the Hellenic Psychiatric Association, and the European Brain Council. Video 1st part Video 2nd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mental-health","category-news-for-family-carers","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"02\"](\"http:\/\/epioni.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/02.jpg\")
The Commission advocates the introduction of a new entitlement for caregivers, which includes a\u00a0five-days compensated\u00a0Carers leave per worker per year, which should be compensated no less than a compensated\u00a0sick leave. Additionally, the Commission advocates the entitlement of\u00a0 flexible working arrangements for the same reason said the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis.\u00a0(Video Message)<\/a><\/p>\n![\"13\"](\"http:\/\/epioni.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/13.jpg\")
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