Evaluating Long-Term Care Policies Around the World 

GOLTC Economics of Long-Term Care Interest Group

Date: 1 December 2025

Time: 4pm to 5pm GMT, you can check your local time here

Link: Register to join on Zoom

To promote the evaluation of existing LTC policies and the involvement of the scientific community in future LTC policymaking, the Gateway to Global Aging Data project organized a conference in November 2023 and eight paper were published in a special issue in Health Economics journal. The Global Observatory of Long-Term Care (GOLTC) will be hosting a webinar to bring together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to discuss the LTC Policy Virtual Special Issue and present two of the papers by the authors.  

The webinar will cover:  

1. Introduction to the Global Observatory of Long-Term care and welcome (Adelina Comas-Herrera, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, LSE, UK)
2. Introduction to the Long-term care interest group (Sedighe Jebeli, University of Birmingham)  
3. Introducing the Special Issue on LTC around the world (David Knapp, University of Southern California)  
4. There Is No Place Like Home: The Impact of Public Home-Based Care on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Older People (Ludovico Carrino, University of Trieste)  
5. Strategic Coding in the Assessment of Long-Term Care Needs: Evidence From France (Delphine Roy, Paris School of Economics, EHESS, France)
6. Discussion and Q&A: Courtney Van Houtven and Elizabeth Lemmon as moderators