Democratisation of care work
Barcelona is a pioneering city in implementing feminist policies in one of the areas that creates the most discrimination and inequality: care work.
Tasked with a clear transformational purpose, Caring City aims to be a tool to help bring recognition to the social value of care work, and to ensure the right to care and be cared for in decent, quality conditions.
What is happening?
What is happening?
Most of the time spent on care work in Barcelona falls to families, mainly women, and without pay.
The provision of paid care is known for its feminisation, high job insecurity and large proportion of immigrant women.
The overload of care work is having a negative impact on the physical and mental health and the life trajectories of carers.
What do we want to do?
We are launching a programme with 68 initiatives to highlight the importance of care work, to socialise the responsibility of care work, to ensure decent working conditions for workers, entities and individuals providing care work, to improve the quality of the services and to empower the people receiving or providing care.
News
Cat adoption to combat loneliness among the elderly
18/12/2020 - 12:58 h
Animal welfare. An initiative is under way to promote the adoption of cats by elderly people who use the Vincles BCN programme.
Calls to 70,000 elderly people to give them help and support
04/12/2020 - 14:59 h
Elderly people. The ‘Com està?’ project centres on the over-70s with the goal of detecting loneliness and emotional suffering which may have been made worse by the Covid-19 crisis.
Suicide prevention freephone number: 900 925 555
27/11/2020 - 18:35 h
Health. Suicide is the main cause of death among men between the ages of 15 and 44 in the city and the second cause of death among women.
Mutual support tools to tackle male violence towards women in digital spheres
17/11/2020 - 17:22 h
25N. Some 15% of women in Barcelona have suffered cyberharassment online, by email or by mobile.
Barcelona Cuida space
Barcelona Cuida is a pioneering centre promoting all the existing care-related resources in the city and putting them within people’s reach.
The centre offers information, advice and guidance for the city’s carers and cared-for.
It also acts as a meeting and networking point for individuals, professionals and organisations.
Search tool for care-related services and resources
Use the search feature to find care-related information and services offered in Barcelona.
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Agenda
Informació sobre els drets de les persones malaltes i el Document de Voluntats Anticipades - atenció presencial
- When:
- From 05/01/2020 to 31/07/2021
- Where:
- Espai Barcelona Cuida
- C Viladomat 127 (Eixample)
- 934132121
Acollides a persones en risc que han portat a terme una temptativa o ideació suïcida i el seu entorn més proper
- When:
- From 04/01/2021 to 30/06/2021
- Where:
- Espai Barcelona Cuida
- C Viladomat 127 (Eixample)
- 934132121
Acollides a Supervivents
- When:
- From 04/01/2021 to 31/12/2021
- Where:
- Espai Barcelona Cuida
- C Viladomat 127 (Eixample)
- 934132121
