Project: European Welfare Models and Mental Wellbeing in Final Years of Life

Acronym	EMMY
Duration	01/01/2017 - 31/12/2020
Project Topic	The EMMY Project is an interdisciplinary and mixed methods comparative study on impact of welfare systems on mental wellbeing among the oldest old in Finland, Italy, Norway and Spain, including aspects such as equity, social inclusion, empowerment and participation. The project will delineate the concept of mental wellbeing at old age by qualitative methods, and will dissect the links between welfare systems and mental wellbeing by quantitative methods. It will support exchange of good policies between EU Member States by performing case studies of existing welfare policies and systems in the four participating countries, and it will develop a new research-based tool for assessing the mental wellbeing impact of welfare policies in old people. The overarching aim of this interdisciplinary, comparative research project is to improve our knowledge and understanding of how different welfare models and related policies, as well as health and social care service approaches, can benefit from adaptation in order to target mental wellbeing in the oldest-old. The project will support development of social welfare models in order to incorporate a change of focus from mental disorders to mental wellbeing among old people. This is important, not only because of the ageing of the European population, but also because of increasing pressures on public finances, within and beyond Europe.
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Network	JPI MYBL
Call	2nd Call: Welfare, Wellbeing and Demographic Change: Understanding Welfare Models

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
1	Coordinator National Institute for Health and Welfare	Coordinator	Finland
2	Åbo Akademi University	Partner	Finland
3	Stiftelsen for industriell og teknisk forskning	Partner	Norway
4	The Autonomous University of Madrid	Partner	Spain
5	University of Verona	Partner	Italy