Independent living is not an easy topic, especially with shrinking budgets and growing needs. E-health is obviously part of the solution but as Marta Tatar, County Councillor of Covasna (RO) mentioned “to create integrated care systems we need integrated communities”, and that was what made it so special to be in Donegal (IE) last month: the region, which earlier this year won the AER Most Youth-Friendly Region Special Prize for their Youth Council’s initiative to raise awareness on mental health, excels at making the quadruple helix work! 

The 120 delegates who gathered in Letterkenny from 20 to 23 October had the opportunity to hear and see how the region supports independent living from an early age by empowering all citizens young and old and also shared their own experience on the implementation of integrated care systems.