Webinar: Getting started with caregiver-friendly employment
Webinar: Getting started with caregiver-friendly employment Surplus, together with the Mantelzorgacademie, is organizing a webinar on June 23 for HR professionals, managers, entrepreneurs and policy makers who want to build a healthy future-proof organization. 1 in 4 working people combine their job with care tasks at home for a loved one who is ill or in need of help. For employers, attention [...]
Looking for balance and resilience?
The Resilience Tool from Vilans is a practical online tool that supports you in finding your own balance. By answering a few short questions, you gain insight into how you are doing as a caregiver and where you might need extra support. The tool helps you to consciously [...]
Informal care campaign: ‘Throw open your cloak, make your care(s) visible’
The week of informal care is from November 10 to 15. We pay extra attention to all informal caregivers who are ready for another person every day. Besides all kinds of activities, Surplus is launching the campaign ‘Throw open your mantle, make your care(s) visible. Many caregivers do not call themselves caregivers They simply care, out of [...]
For his or her safety ... or for your reassurance?
As a caregiver, you care with love and commitment, with your loved one's well-being always in mind. And, of course, with the desire that he or she be safe. So sometimes you take measures you think, “better this, than something happens.” A bed rail up. A door locked. A GPS tracker in the coat pocket. [...]
When are you a caregiver?
During the period of informal care appreciation, we receive questions about “what exactly is informal care” and “when am I or am I not a informal caregiver?” Therefore, we would like to explain a bit more about informal care. Informal care is the (unpaid) care you provide based on personal relationship with a loved one, think of a partner, parent or child, or [...]
Start of application period for gift certificates for Young Informal Caregivers
The municipality of Geertruidenberg recognizes and appreciates young family caregivers! From next September 1 until December 31, 2025, young informal caregivers between the ages of twelve and eighteen have the opportunity to apply for a special gift certificate from the Surplus Youth Work & Mantelzorg. Very normal, but also special Young family caregivers, also called CoMogelijkMakers, [...]
Good news: installing a home for informal care becomes easier
Would you like to care for a loved one and are considering a family care home? That will soon become easier. The government is working on a new law. That law will ensure that you can place an informal care home throughout the Netherlands under the same rules. Municipalities may no longer make additional rules. What will change? The new law is called: Strengthening [...]
What exactly is dementia?
A clear explanation video by Dr. Anneke van der Plaats about what exactly happens in the brain when someone has dementia. And what happens then less and less. From her book ‘De dag door met dementie’. Anneke van der Plaats is a social geriatrician and as a nursing home physician, scientist, lecturer and consultant in the field [...]