1. Presentation LeNeMi: SUPSI - Tuesday 12 June 2012 National Survey «brain waste»: Swiss Health Observatory (Obsan) stefan.kunz@supsi.ch

2. Project partners Swiss Health Observatory (Obsan) www.obsan.ch www.obsan.ch UAS Berne – Health Dpt. SUPSI – DSAN UAS Fribourg – Health Dpt. Curaviva Switzerland Swiss Home Healthcare Society

3. Migrant care givers and “brain waste” Within the Swiss health care system migrant auxiliary caregivers represent an important resource The survey aims at estimating how many migrant auxiliary care givers presently working in Switzerland (elderly care homes & homecare services) might already have concluded a training in the health care domain in their country of origin This should allow identifying a target group of auxiliary caregivers eligible for specific further education courses (re-qualification/top-up courses)

4. Objectives Phase I Online questionnaire sent to all elderly care homes and home healthcare services in Switzerland in order to gain data regarding the number of: - migrant auxiliary caregivers working in these services - migrant auxiliary caregivers having already concluded a training in the health care domain in their country of origin Phase II Phone interviews (semistructured questionnaire) with auxiliary caregivers concerned