President, Executive, Advisers

Robert Anderson | President

Rob is Head of the Living Conditions research section at the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions in Dublin. He runs research across the EU on quality of life, population ageing and disability; currently he is coordinating a 10 country study of company initiatives to support staff who are also carers. He has worked previously at university and research institutes in Germany and the UK and was at the World Health Organisation's European Office in Copenhagen.
   

Giovanni Lamura | Vice-President Research Organisations

After a PhD in "Life course and social policy" at the University of Bremen (Germany), I have been working at the Italian National Research Centre on Ageing (INRCA) since 1995. My main interests are in the field of comparative research on family care of the elderly (e.g.: EUROFAMCARE); reconciliation of professional and caring responsibilities; migrant care workers; prevention of elder abuse and neglect; long term care; older workers. Currently I am focusing on migrant care work and involved in “Futurage” (a coordinated action aiming at outlining a “Road Map” for future research on ageing in Europe).

Frank Goodwin | Secretary

As a social worker Frank worked in the psychiatric services for six years and then with Dublin City Council for twenty five years and retired in 2004. He was founder member of The Carers Association  in 1987 and has been chairperson for most years since.

Áke  Fagerberg

1997 - 2006 Adviser for family carers in Varbergs municipality. One of the first in Sweden
1999 -2001 County co-ordinator for the project”Anhörig 300” in Hallands County
2002 - 30 June 2005 National Co-ordinator for the issues of family carers in municipalities and counties in Sweden
2005 Member of the board of Carers Sweden (Family Care Council in Sweden)
2006 Chairman of Carers Sweden (Family Care National Fed.)
2003- 2004 Eurofamcare, project member of National Advisory Group
2005 Swedish representative in the creation of Eurocarers
 

Licia Boccaletti | Executive Member

Licia is European Project coordinator for Anziani e Non Solo, an Italian NGO working in the field of social research and community development and especially focusing on elderly people and their formal and informal carers.

She is currently involved in several local projects aimed to training and empowerment of formal and informal caregivers as well as project coordinator of Grundtvig Project “Life After Care” on the issue of post-caring and as social researcher for the European Commission pilot project “EU.R.O.P.E.A.N.” on the issue of violence towards elderly people.”

Dr. Hanneli Doehner| Executive Member

Dr Hanneli is a sociologist specialized in social gerontology. She has been working from 1975 to 2011 in the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Department for Medical Sociology and Health Economics (IMSG) as the head of the research group of social gerontology trying to link research to education, practice and policy. Although retired since beginning of July 2011 she will continue her work in some projects. In the past she has initiated and coordinated lots of projects on local, national and international level. She has been the co-ordinator of the EU funded project “EUROFAMCARE – Services for Supporting Family Carers of Older Persons in Europe”

http://www.uke.de/extern/eurofamcare/   

 

 

Christine Marking | Adviser

Christine Marking is a Dutch clinical psychologist, with a specialisation in psycho-gerontology and social gerontology.  She has worked previously as a psychologist in a nursing home setting in Amsterdam, where she was mainly involved with assessment and treatment aspects of psycho-geriatric patients as well as managing support groups for carers and relatives.

After moving to Brussels in 1988 she became Marketing Manager with Market Research Intelligence Company, performing market research in the area of pharmaceuticals, and from there moved to the European Commission. There she worked as a consultant with the ageing unit of Directorate General V (Health and Social Affairs) of the European Commission, where she was responsible for the creation of two European wide networks of innovative grass roots projects, project assessment and preparation of the 1993 European Year of Older People.
After two years, she joined Eurolink Age, a European-wide network of older people’s advocacy organisations, representing the interests of older people at EU policy level, and responsible for the co-operation with a number of social and health advocacy groups and became its Director in 1997. 

As one of the initiators and driving forces behind the creation of AGE - the European Older People’s Platform, she was appointed its first Director when AGE started its activities in January 2001.

In September 2002 she joined Weber Shandwick|Adamson as Director of the Pharmaceuticals and Health Care Practice.

Since September 2003, Christine runs Marking Public Affairs sprl in Brussels, which advises on a variety of EU health and social policy related projects and issues.

She is a native Dutch speaker, with fluent English and French, and conversational German and Italian.

Marja Pijl | Adviser

Marja Pijl grew up and lives in the Netherlands. Trained as a sociologist she worked for the European Bureau of Adult Education, the Netherlands’ Youth Council and the Netherlands Institute for Research into the Social Services. Since 1994 she works as an independent researcher and participates in comparative studies on (European) social policies, ageing policies and new developments in the care sector.
 She has served on the Board of many NGOs, including the Netherlands Platform Older People and Europe (NPOE) and the Dutch Carers Association. As President of Eurolink Age she played an active role in the establishment of AGE, the European Older People’s Platform.
 She was the honourary secretary of Eurocarers, European Association working for Carers and secretary of OVN-NL, the Dutch Older Women’s Network.