http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/15 2026-05-08T06:31:59Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/4051 Future Housing Older People Project – HoOp_Focus : perspectiva dels usuaris Rifà Ros, Rosa; Sitjà-Rabert, Mercè; Carrillo Álvarez, Elena; Reyes-Vizacarro, Marta; Vilaro, Jordi; Fornt-Baldrich, Anna; Rodriguez-Monforte, Miriam Les persones grans constitueixen una proporció important de la població mundial i es preveu que en les properes dècades la tendència sigui creixent. En aquest sentit, un dels principals desafiaments amb què se segueix lluitant a les residències d'adults més grans és la millora de la qualitat de vida dels residents. És per això que l'abordatge dels problemes del model d'atenció i habitatge de la gent gran requereix enfocaments sistèmics com el que es planteja en aquest projecte en el marc del Barcelona Aging Colaboratory Living Lab-BALL. Així el propòsit que es planteja és descriure les necessitats i perspectives sobre l'habitatge per a la gent gran des de la visió dels usuaris presents i potencials i les famílies per en una segona fase co-definir un pla d'acció per consensuar, desenvolupar i aplicar una visió compartida del futur model d'habitatge i atenció per a la gent gran Donats els objectius de la recerca es planteja enfocament qualitatiu, seguint les propostes de la fenomenologia realitzant 5 grups focals, amb 37 informants els mesos de març i abril del 2023 que van expressar la seva opinió sobre el model actual d'habitatge per a la gent gran i la seva opinió sobre com hauria de ser el futur model en relació als espais i els usos, als dispositius, materials i serveis que s'ofereixen, a la gestió d'aquests habitatges i al confort i els sentiments que han de proporcionar aquests espais. 2024-03-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/3702 How can reference budgets contribute to the construction of social indicators to assess the adequacy of minimum income and the affordability of necessary goods and services?; How can reference budgets contribute to the construction of social indicators to assess the adequacy of minimum income and the affordability of necessary goods and services? Storms, Bérénice; Cornelis, Ilse; Delanghe, Heleen; Frederickx, Marieke; Penne, Tess; Bernát, Anikó; Mäkinen, Lauri; Szivos, Péter; Carrillo Álvarez, Elena; Cussó Parcerisas, Irene; Muñoz-Martínez, Júlia In this working paper we argue that the EU needs a new, additional indicator to implement and monitor the right to an adequate minimum income, as stipulated in principle 14 of the European Pillar of Social Rights. In article 5 of the ‘Council recommendation on adequate minimum income ensuring active inclusion’ three kind of indicators are recommended for this purpose. We explain why they all can be criticized, particularly because they insufficiently grasp the essence of what is meant by an adequate minimum income. We define a minimum income as adequate when it succeeds in guaranteeing individual citizens a living standard that enables them to fully participate in society. An adequate level of income is not only determined by the net level of cash benefits or labour income, but also by the extent to which essential goods and services are affordable. Affordability and adequacy are two sites of the same coin. An income is adequate when essential goods and services are affordable, and vice versa, a good or service is affordable when the disposable household income is at an adequate level to consume a particular good or service without sacrificing consumption of other essential goods and services. Indicators that suffer from insufficient recognition of the link between these two concepts, can result in inadequate monitoring, misleading policy conclusions and ineffective personal assistance interventions. We are convinced that high-quality reference budgets can make an important contribution to developing adequacy and affordability indicators that are helpful for both, contextualizing existing indicators, and providing combined guidance for successful, multi-level anti-poverty strategies. Reference budgets are priced baskets of goods and services, that illustrate the amount of income that well-defined family types need at the minimum to fully participate in the society in which they live. Departing from a solid theoretical and methodological framework, they look for the financial fulfilment of so-called 'thick needs', while taking account of the differences in socio-economic living conditions between and across Member States. In this paper we are describing the essential building blocks for the development of high-quality reference budgets and discuss their merits and drawbacks. We strongly recommend setting up projects aimed at improving methodology and data availability to improve their comparability. So, they can be very helpful for the Commission to monitor the progress of the implementation of the Council Recommendation and to enhance cross-border learning. In this project we have taken some major steps forward in constructing cross-national comparable food budgets, in terms of their content as well as well as in terms of the pricing strategy. Moreover, we added the sustainability aspect to the reference budget approach, ensuring that an adequate standard of living defined could also be safeguarded for the next generation. Based on the improved methodology, we have worked out comparable food budgets for households living in an urban context in Belgium, Finland, Hungary and Spain and we used these budgets in a tentative exercise to assess the affordability of a healthy and sustainable diet. 2023-02-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/3701 Towards cross-country comparable reference budgets in Europe: a methodological note on the development of food baskets; Towards cross-country comparable reference budgets in Europe: a methodological note on the development of food baskets Carrillo Álvarez, Elena; Muñoz-Martínez, Júlia; Cussó Parcerisas, Irene; Cornelis, Ilse; Delanghe, Heleen; Frederickx, Marieke; Penne, Tess; Storms, Bérénice An adequate minimum income is imperative for the fight against poverty and for the realization of human rights (Cantillon et al., 2019; Van Lancker et al., 2020). A safety net that secures a decent level of minimum income is not only imperative for the fulfilment of other rights but is also a right in itself. The right to an adequate minimum income has been a long-standing commitment of the EU and its Member States and is one of the key principles in the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) endorsed by all EU institutions and the Member States (European Commission, 2017). Principle 14 specifically addresses the right to an adequate minimum income that ensures a life in dignity, emphasizing the importance of labor market participation and access to enabling goods and services. Recently, this has been further elaborated and supported by the European Commission and Council by means of a Recommendation on adequate minimum income (Council of the European Union, 2022). While these EU initiatives are important steps forward towards adequate minimum incomes in Europe, we have argued (Storms et al. 2023) that besides the income-based AROP-indicator, there is a need for a benchmark that represents the costs that households face to access necessary goods and services. More specifically, we advocate the development and use of high-quality reference budgets (RBs) as a benchmark providing a sound multi-dimensional understanding of what social safety nets should entail in order to guarantee a life in dignity at all stages of life. RBs are priced baskets of goods and services that illustrate what households need in order to be able to live a dignified life. If the adequacy of minimum incomes is to be monitored at the European level, there is a need for RBs that are comparable across the member states. In previous EU projects {Goedemé, Storms, Penne & Van den Bosh, 2015a; Goedemé, Storms, Stockman, Penne, Van den Bosch, 2015b; Menyhért et al., 2021) first attempts have been made towards the development of cross-nationally comparable RBs (RB) in Europe. In the context of the current EuSocialCit project, additional steps have been taken towards more comparability. More specifically, the methodology to develop and price cross-nationally comparable food baskets representing a healthy and sustainable diet has been further elaborated and implemented in four European countries (Belgium, Finland, Hungary and Spain). In the current methodological note, we outline the methodological choices and considerations and the necessary steps for the future development of RBs across Europe. More specifically, we investigated how the methodology of developing comparable food baskets can be enhanced. Besides adding a layer of common guidelines and improving the pricing strategy, we have also investigated the feasibility of including sustainability criteria at different levels to construct the food budgets. Although food budgets alone are insufficient to fully assess the adequacy of minimum incomes, the note aims to illustrate how these comparable food baskets are a first step for measuring both affordability of necessary goods and services and income adequacy in a comprehensive way across Europe. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/3700 Food aid in Europe in times of the COVID-19 crisis An international survey project; Food aid in Europe in times of the COVID-19 crisis An international survey project Greiss, Johanna; Schoneville, Holger; Adomavičienė, Aistė; Baltutė, Rimgailė; Bernát, Anikó; Carrillo Álvarez, Elena; Delanghe, Heleen; Goderis, Benedikt; Hermans, Karen; van der Horst, Hilje; Michoń, Piotr; Leite de Freitas Pereira, Elvira Sofia; Correia Pereirinha, José António; Cantillon, Bea Food aid has become an integral part of welfare states across Europe, which was particularly striking during the socio-economic COVID-19 crisis. So far, however, there has been little cross-national research on how food aid is organised and em- bedded in European welfare arrangements. The international project "Food aid in Europe in times of the COVID-19 crisis" therefore addressed this research gap by conducting a cross-sectional survey and collecting quantitative data on food aid in different European countries at the same time (Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Spain). Our findings show that food aid has diverse links to the welfare state arrangement despite different country contexts, indicating that food aid is becoming institutionalised across Europe. During the COVID-19 crisis, these links seem to have strengthened. Our findings also point to a significant role of the Fund for European Aid to the Deprived (FEAD) in food aid. 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z