Fabian Marc Pascal Berger

• Stabsmitarbeiter at Kantonales Sozialamt Zürich

Many children under the age of 18 are drawn into unpaid caring roles because they live in families where there is chronic illness, mental health problems or substance misuse, and because other alternatives are not available. Many of these children, widely referred to as 'young carers', provides regular and significant amounts of care, often 'hidden...

The Careum Summer School (CSS) is a learning setting that enables self-regulated learning in an environment in which trainees and students from the various medical, nursing and therapeutic healthcare professions taught in the Swiss education system (upper secondary and tertiary levels A and B) develop project ideas together with patients and their...

In a cross-national project, 14 neighborhoods from Germany, Austria and Switzerland were accompanied on their way to digitally supported neighborhood work. This paper discusses general requirements, choosing a suitable digital tool, the implementation process as well as the challenges faced by the various stakeholders. The following factors have be...

In a cross-national project, 14 neighborhoods from Germany, Austria and Switzerland were accompanied on their way to digitally supported neighborhood work. This paper discusses general requirements, choosing a suitable digital tool, the implementation process as well as the challenges faced by the various stakeholders. The following factors have be...

Background COVID-19 has developed into a worldwide pandemic which was accompanied by an «infodemic» consisting of much false and misleading information. To cope with these new challenges, health literacy plays an essential role. The aim of this paper is to present the findings of a trend study in Switzerland on corona-specific health literacy, the...

Managing health information and services is difficult for nearly half of the population in Switzerland. Low health literacy has been shown to result in poorer health and health outcomes as well as a higher utilization of health services. To date, studies on health literacy in Switzerland have focused on a national level. However, Switzerland is a f...

Carers (including young carers) experiencing negative outcomes due to their caring role are more likely to report a lower sense of coherence. This article explores young carers’ support needs for support provided by professionals. A total of 20 interviews with young carers and the persons for whom they provide care were analysed by applying Antonov...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic is accompanied by an infodemic, i.e. a flood of conflicting infor-mation through numerous channels and mis-/disinformation. To cope with these challenges and to make sound health-decisions, people need skills that enable them to access, under-stand, appraise, and use health-related information, i.e. adequate health...

Die Careum Summer School (CSS) leistet mit den beiden Kernthemen Interprofessionalität und Selbstbestimmung einen Beitrag, um die Zusammenarbeit in der Praxis zu reflektieren und die Versorgungsqualität zu verbessern. Der vorliegende Artikel lotet die Potenziale des Lernformats CSS zur Umsetzung der Projektideen in der interprofessionellen Praxis a...

Background Across Europe, young carers (YCs) and their need for support receive limited attention in the media, policy and empirical research, even though, similar to adult carers, they also provide care to ill family members. The Delphi study, a qualitative research methodology, which provides the focus for this article, had the overall aim of exp...

In einer qualitativen Studie wurden 23 Personen mit körperlicher, kognitiver oder psychischer Beeinträchtigung zu den Teilhabemöglichkeiten im Kontext Wohnen befragt. Von separativen bis hin zu inklusionsorientierten Wohnsettings wurden zahlreiche fördernde beziehungsweise behindernde Faktoren (etwa das Maß an finanziellen Ressourcen, sozialer Unte...

Background: How adults with disabilities perceive participation has received little attention. Our purpose was to formulate a grounded theory on participation, based on the subjective experience of adults with cognitive, physical, or psychiatric impairment(s), and to identify barriers, facilitators, and support needs concerning participation in di...

Background: How adults with disabilities perceive participation has received little attention. Our purpose was to formulate a grounded theory on participation, based on the subjective experience of adults with cognitive, physical, or psychiatric impairment(s), and to identify barriers, facilitators, and support needs concerning participation in dif...

Background: How adults with disabilities perceive participation has received little attention. Our purpose was to formulate a grounded theory on participation, based on the subjective experience of adults with cognitive, physical, or psychiatric impairment(s), and to identify barriers, facilitators, and support needs concerning participation in dif...

Background Across Europe there is limited attention paid in media, policy and empirical research to the situation of young carers (YCs) and their needs for support, while similarly to adult carers, they provide care to ill family members. The Delphi study, which provides the focus for this article, had the overall aim of exploring existing successf...

Background Across Europe, young carers (YCs) and their need for support receive limited attention in the media, policy and empirical research, even though, similar to adult carers, they also provide care to ill family members. The Delphi study, a qualitative research methodology, which provides the focus for this article, had the overall aim of exp...

Background Across Europe, young carers (YCs) and their need for support receive limited attention in the media, policy and empirical research, even though, similar to adult carers, they also provide care to ill family members. The Delphi study, a qualitative research methodology, which provides the focus for this article, had the overall aim of exp...

Im Januar 2018 startete ein grosses, transnationales Forschungsprojekt zu betreuenden und pflegenden Jugendlichen-auch Young Carers ¹ genannt. Die Schweiz ist eines der sechs daran beteiligten europäischen Länder. Im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts wurden Expert*innen aus dem Gesundheits-, Bildungs-und Sozialwesen befragt, um die Bedürf-nisse und Unt...

Background How adults with disabilities perceive participation has received little attention. Our purpose was to formulate a grounded theory on participation, based on the subjective experience of adults with cognitive, physical, or psychiatric impairment(s), and to identify barriers, facilitators, and support needs concerning participation in diff...

Background: How adults with disabilities perceive participation has received little attention. Our purpose was to formulate a grounded theory on participation, based on the subjective experience of adults with cognitive, physical, or psychiatric impairment(s), and to identify barriers, facilitators, and support needs concerning participation in dif...

The Swiss welfare state is marked by strong federalism and subsidiarity, e. g. when it comes to social and health policies. This contribution presents findings of the first national study on self-help in Switzerland. This contribution is based on three sub-projects: 1. an oral and an online survey of the management personnel of the national organiz...

In der deutschsprachigen Schweiz wurden von 2015 bis 2016 im Rahmen der TeMB-Studie die Teilhabemöglichkeiten von Menschen mit körperlicher, kognitiver oder psychischer Beeinträchtigung in den Lebensbereichen Wohnen, Bildung, Arbeit, Herkunftsfamilie, Partnerschaft und Freizeit untersucht. Die empirisch-qualitativen Studienergebnisse legen diverse...

Inwiefern eine volle und wirksame Teilhabe für Menschen mit einer Beeinträchtigung im Kontext Arbeit gegeben ist, muss nicht nur aus rechtlicher und staatlicher, sondern auch aus Sicht der Menschen mit einer Beeinträchtigung eingeschätzt werden. In einer qualitativen Studie wurden von 2015 bis 2016 23 Personen mit einer Beeinträchtigung aus neun De...

During the last decades, important institutional and social changes have influenced the development of collaborative self-help in Switzerland. The self-help system has been strengthened through the foundation of new regional centres. Over the past ten years, these changes and the development of self-help in Switzerland have not been examined system...