Images, sounds and stories often tell more than written texts and talks in webinars or conferences. The Global Observatory of Long Term Care (GOLTC) therefore seeks to visualize what it would like to address, in particular, how the paradigms behind long-term care are changing. What matters to people with complex long-term conditions is the point of departure to how long-term care is organised. The dialogue with them should be the starting point of what supports and services are provided. We don’t objectify people with vulnerabilities them as ‘patients’, ‘clients’ or ‘residents’, but as people with a present, a history and a future in their own context.

This may sound as something to which you cannot object, but hard to realise in daily practice. Research, policy papers and testimonials may appear convincing to policy makers, managers, scholars and advocacy organisation of people with chronic conditions and their carers. But stepping down into reality is not always easy: how does the paradigm shift look like in everyday life?

Therefore, GOLTC has taken the initiative to make the changing paradigms visible by images, sounds and stories, or – in other words – by films and documentaries.

We would like to invite the GOLTC community to share with us ‘movies that matter’. We would like to collect films and documentaries, in order to show them online followed by a reflection or discussion with the makers and if possible the subject of the movies. Maybe, we collect enough groundbreaking materials for – if copy rights – permit a repository of trailers and movies and in the future a film festival. It may be that some of them will be only accessible behind a payment wall. We need to find out how to organise this.

But first we would like to make an inventory of existing materials. We would like to invite members of the GOLTC community to submit or alert us to relevant films and documentaries, including contact details of the makers and those who are responsible for the distribution. After that, we will decide how to bring the ‘Movies that matter’ further to the attention to our members.

We would welcome people who would like to volunteer as organisers of this group!

Email us at ilp-network@lse.ac.uk if you are interested.

 

Initial steering group:

Henk Nies (Chair of the GOLTC Executive Committee, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Adelina Comas-Herrera (Director, GOLTC, Care Policy and Evaluation, London School of Economics and Political Science)