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Welcome to the Internet Site of the European Association for Directors of Residential Care Homes for the Elderly E.D.E.

E.D.E. (European Association for Directors of Residential Care Homes for the Elderly) is a professional federation of directors/managers of Residential and Nursing Homes from all over Europe.

Members in E.D.E. are organisations of home directors coming from 18 European countries and altogether there are 23 national associations.

On our newly created web site we are happy to give you information on our aims and objectives, our missions and events. With the help of links you can make contact with the national associations of the profession in particular, and with other web sites specializing in our field of interest.

It would be a pleasure to communicate with you and for this we do request you to inform us of your ideas, your passions and your critics.

Caring for older persons in a Europe confronted with the demographic changes, is in fact coming face to face with important social and economic challenges that we can only master together.
We need the same standards of quality throughout Europe to make the foundation for our professional action and so avoid a social "second-rate" attitude. Finding good solutions to each older person's housing and living conditions, as well as more humane working conditions for the staff in our homes is a vision that we together in E.D.E. work for!

 Prof. Dr. Wilfried Schlüter
President