Migrant integration, professionalisation and attractiveness in the domestic and home care sector. What perspective regarding to the next Eu legislative mandate?

We can observe in every Eu Member state a growing need for Phs services, mainly linked to demographic evolution and societal changes. The global aging of the population is causing an increase in the dependency rate of elderly people and therefore of the need for long-term cares services. In parallel it’s a reality that a majority of people living in the Eu, prefer to age as actively as possible at home. The increase in the number of single-parent families and the greater participation of women in the labour market encourage the outsourcing of family and domestic responsibilities, for which women are still mainly responsible, to external professionals. These factors are at the origin of a future labour shortage in the Phs sector (Personal and Household Services)1. They are also showing the need to foster national and European solutions for professionalisation to strengthen attractiveness of domestic & home care services.