In this post Laura Espantaleón Rueda, from IMSERSO describes the European Care Strategy proposed by the European Commission in 2022, which aims to address the shared challenges of affordability, availability, quality, and the care workforce, as well as sound policy governance in long-term care. The post describes the synergies of the European Care Strategy with Spain’s National Strategy for a new model of care in the community: a deinstitutionalization process, and Spain’s action plan in response to the Commision.

You can read the blog in English here and in Spanish here.

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