Caring for the Caregivers: Mental Wellbeing in Elderly Care

Mapping Healthcare Systems: Insights from Support4Resilience

In this episode, Deputy project manager, Hilda Bø Lyng talks with Dutch colleagues, Roland Bal and Martijn Felder about how the Support4Resilience project maps and analyzes healthcare systems across countries. They explore key findings, the impact on the S4R Toolbox and Resource Bank, and how this work supports healthcare leaders and policymakers in building more resilient elderly care systems. Visit our website [http://support4resilience.eu] Episode transcription [https://podcast.uis.no/media/Supporting_Resilience_in_Healthcare/1703_riverside.pdf]

Caring for the Caregivers: Mental Wellbeing in Elderly Care

In the second episode of of Supporting Resilience in Healthcare, we focus on those who actively care for the elderly, both professional and informal caregivers. The discussion between associate professor Daniel Adrian Lungu and PhD candidate Maha Kamran addresses the challenges that caregivers face across Europe and in Norway, investigating causes and hypothesising possible future scenarios. The episode sets the ground for the data collected by the Support4Resilience project and findings will be made available in a new episode after the data has been analysed. Support4resilience website [https://support4resilience.eu/]  Episode transcript [https://podcast.uis.no/media/Supporting_Resilience_in_Healthcare/1513.pdf]

Introducing Support4Resilience

In this first episode of Supporting Resilience in Healthcare, we introduce the Support4Resilience project—an EU-funded initiative dedicated to strengthening resilience and mental wellbeing in elderly care. Host Shalini Frøiland speaks with Professor Siri Wiig, the project’s Principal Investigator, about the urgent challenges facing healthcare workers, caregivers, and leaders. They discuss workforce shortages, burnout, and the need for practical solutions. Tune in to learn how this project aims to make a lasting impact through its innovative Support4Resilience Toolbox and what success will look like by 2028. Website: https://support4resilience.eu/ [https://support4resilience.eu/] Episode transcript [https://podcast.uis.no/media/Supporting_Resilience_in_Healthcare/1344.pdf]