Uses of Time

The Network for the Support of Caregiving Families was created in April 2007 with the aim of providing families who care for people affected by illness with information and advice based on attentive listening, disseminating their rights, ensuring that health and social policies take them into account, connecting them with professionals, and raising awareness in society about the work they do. In short, to stand alongside families who provide care and give them the recognition they deserve.

The XSFC is a well-established network with stable and strong links to the vast majority of organisations representing people affected by some form of illness and their families, professional associations, and health and social service providers. Its long and stable track record makes it a unifying and catalytic force at times of change, when all political administrations have sought to engage directly with the organisations in the network and maintain their commitment to it as a strategic public-private co-production space for the city's care programme. They have been the driving force behind the main municipal actions in the field of care, such as the launch of the Barcelona Cuida Space and the Caregiver Card, innovative and pioneering services and programmes throughout Spain.

Members of the XSFC:

• Barcelona Public Health Agency
• Alzheimer's Catalonia Foundation
• Catalan Haemophilia Association
• Catalan Huntington's Disease Association
• Catalan Association for Parkinson's Disease in Barcelona
• Association of Relatives of Alzheimer's Patients in Barcelona
• AFAB
• Association of Relatives and Friends of Children with Cancer in Catalonia
• AFANOC
• Barcelona Cancer Association
• Aprendemos Barcelona Association
• Official College of Physicians of Barcelona
• Official College of Psychology of Catalonia
• Official College of Social Work of Catalonia
• Official College of Nurses of Barcelona
• Official College of Pharmacists of Barcelona
• Barcelona Health Consortium
• Red Cross in Barcelona
• Mental Health Federation of Catalonia
• Enriqueta Villavecchia Foundation
• Multiple Sclerosis Foundation
• Virgin Mary of Lourdes Hospitality Foundation
• Ictus Foundation, Jubert Figueras Foundation
• Pasqual Maragall Foundation
• Uszheimer Foundation
• Municipal Institute of Social Services (IMSS)
• Oncolliga

Time Impacts:

• Promotion of healthy use of time.
• Facilitation of work-life balance.
• Reduction of unpaid workload and support for carers.
   

More information:
Network for the support of caring families (in Catalan).