2nd Joint Transnational Call -- Welfare, Wellbeing and Demographic Change: Understanding Welfare Models

Aims: To support research which will improve the understanding of how different approaches to welfare secure the quality of life, especially for those over 50. It seeks to support comparative perspectives on “welfare models”, and how well different models work, for which groups, in what circumstances, and at what cost for which actors.

Research topics:

- Understanding wellbeing: how appropriate are current measures of wellbeing across the changing life course?: research which can improve our understanding of wellbeing as it impacts on people across the expanding lifespan. 

- Intergenerational relationships: how can welfare models distribute resources, rights and responsibilities in fair and sustainable ways?: research which can inform policy on the impact of different approaches to welfare on the distribution of resources, rights and responsibilities between generations.

- Welfare models: How can welfare models secure the health and wellbeing for older people confronted to caring needs, subject to frailty and nearing the end of life?: Understanding throughout these phases of life (caring needs, frailty and end of life), and how welfare models can support health and wellbeing in these stages.

Eligibility criteria: Hospitals, primary health care or public health settings of the Spanish National Health System; Accredited Health Research

Institutes; CIBER.

Funding: Up to 150.000€

Elligible costs: Personnel (students and fellowships excluded); small equipment; Travel and Allowance; Consumables; Subcontracting and other services; Overheads.

Deadlines:

- VHIR's internal deadline: April 4, 2016

- Official deadline: From February 22 to April 11, 2016

Further information: Welfare, Wellbeing and Demographic Change