EU4FairCare campaign supports workers, employers and intermediaries in the long-term care sector to understand their rights and obligations when working in, recruiting for or providing long-term care services across EU borders. It also offers information relevant for households that use such services.

Here you'll find:

• what general rules apply
• what your main rights and responsibilites are
• where to find detailed EU and national information

Long-term care is assistance to people who cannot fully care for themselves due to old age, illness or disability. It is provided over a long period of time.

It includes help with daily activities such as preparing meals, shopping, or housework and nursing care such as assistance in personal hygiene, eating, dressing or moving around.

Care is provided by professionals, including nurses and nursing assistants, physiotherapists and assistants, social workers, psychologists, and home-based care workers. It can take place in residential care facilities such as nursing homes or elderly homes. At the community level it can take place through, for example, adult day care. It can also take place in the person's home.