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Upcoming CPEC webinar: From data to delivery – Resource planning for better mental health access

REGISTER NOW TO JOIN THE WEBINAR. This upcoming webinar hosted by the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in recognition of World Mental Health Day will explore key insights from recent research focused on improving mental health services. The session will highlight findings from participatory research […]

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International Day of Care of Support GOLTC online event: Towards robust, responsive and equitable Long-Term Care systems around the world

Date: 29th October 2024 Times: 9am to 6pm UK time, you can check your local times here. To mark the United Nation’s International Day of Care and Support, the Global Observatory of Long-Term Care will host a day long event featuring presentations from experts on Long-Term Care on key topics that need to be addressed […]

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GOLTC Blog Post: Long-Term Care Policy Update for Japan

Japan’s Long-Term Care System: Innovations and Workforce Challenges Following Ruru Ping’s presentation during the Long-Term Care Policy Interest Group webinar, Ruru Ping from Hitotsubashi University and Nazak Salehi from the London School of Economics and Political Science have prepared a blog post detailing the current situation and recent developments in Japan’s long-term care (LTC) policy. You […]

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Enhancing care home quality using wearable tech and social network analysis. 25 November 2024

Enhancing care home quality using wearable tech and social network analysis GOLTC Data Science Interest Group webinar Quality in long-term care facilities is often measured at the care home level. Yet individual experiences in the same establishment can vary meaningfully. How can we capture these differences? Bluetooth enabled devices worn by residents and staff […]

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University of Leeds: They’re Not Clapping Now: how do we fix the social care workforce crisis? 20 November 2024

“They’re Not Clapping Now: How Do We Fix the Social Care Workforce Crisis?” This event is hosted by NICHE-Leeds, a partnership focused on improving the quality of care, life, and work in care homes, with a strong portfolio of social care workforce research. Location: University of Leeds (United Kingdom) Date: 20 November 2024 Time: 3:00 […]

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SURVEY: Round 2 Delphi Survey – Readiness Assessment Tool Development

Participate in the Aged Care Readiness Assessment Survey Arria has developed a Readiness Assessment Tool designed to help aged care organizations evaluate their preparedness for implementing innovative changes. Arria invite you to take part in this important survey and contribute to valuable resources for the Aged Care Sector. To participate, please complete the survey here: […]

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Missing the mark: the effects of abolishing co-payments for social assistance in the Netherlands. 19 November 2024

Missing the mark: the effects of abolishing co-payments for social assistance in the Netherlands GOLTC Quasi-Experimental Methods Interest Group webinar Date: November 19th, 2024 Time: 1 to 2 pm GMT Link: Register to join on Zoom Local public provision of social assistance to older individuals can improve well-being and prevent the use of expensive care […]

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The International Migration and Recruitment of Care Workers: Lessons from Japan. 23 September 2024

The International Migration and Recruitment of Care Workers: Lessons from Japan GOLTC Migration, Mobility and Care Workers Interest Group webinar Date: Monday, 23 September 2024 Time: 13:00 – 14:00 BST Link: Register to join on Zoom Long-term care systems face chronic shortages of care workers and ever-increasing demand for care. While the role […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: Creando red: primera reunión del grupo de interés sobre cuidados de larga duración en España

GOLTC “Long-Term Care in Spain” Interest Group webinar (this event will be in Spanish) Dia: 15/07/2024 Hora: 12:00-13:30 CET (11:00-12.30 BST) El grupo de interés sobre cuidados de larga duración en España del Global Observatory of Long-Term Care (GOLTC) tiene como objetivo ofrecer oportunidades de intercambio de conocimiento y evidencia para la mejora de […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: The Structural Characteristics of Long-Term Care Facilities and COVID-19 Mortality: Sweden

COVID-19 Lessons for Care Home Standards and Regulatory Approaches: Evidence from Sweden on structural characteristics of LTC facilities and COVID-19 mortality GOLTC Care Home Markets and Regulation Interest Group webinar Date: 11 June 2024 Time: 1.00pm-2.00pm BST As in many countries around the globe, older citizens in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) in Sweden were hit […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: Home Care Teams – Effect on Patients and Economic Policies to keep them in Place and Thriving

GOLTC Economics of LTC Interest Group webinar Date: 6 June 2024 Time: 14:00–15:00 BST What are the patient outcomes of the home care teams, and how can we understand the economic policies to improve that? In this webinar, Dr Coe will present their paper ‘Home-Based Care and Patient Outcomes: Does the Delivery Team Matter? “ […]

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GOLTC Webinar recording: Pensions in Southern Africa – how and why do they vary across the region?

GOLTC Care and Social Protection in Southern Africa Interest Group webinar Date: 31 May 2024 Time: 12:00–13:30 BST In this webinar we heard from three experts who have extensive knowledge on social protection and pensions in the (southern) African context. Several countries in the region have invested significantly in non-contributory pension programmes albeit in different […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: Analysing accuracy, balancing bias- Can ChatGPT be trusted to ease the care documentation burden?

GOLTC DATA SCIENCE INTEREST GROUP WEBINAR Care managers dedicate 6 hours per week transcribing handwritten notes from meetings into electronic databases. Suddenly, AI is being used to automatically generate audio recordings of case management meetings into case notes, freeing up workers to spend more time assessing needs and arranging care. But how reliable are these […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: Pain Assessment in Long-Term Care

This webinar was hosted by the Global Observatory of Long-Term Care (GOLTC) as part of the GOLTC Pain in Care Homes Interest Group Date: Tuesday 4 June 2024 Time: 12pm-1pm BST Pain is connected with emotional, cognitive, and behavioural disorders as well as functional issues. Moreover, chronic pain increases suffering, disability and social isolation which […]

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Call for Papers: Special Issue on “Understanding Cognitive Ageing: Individuals, Institutions, and Inequalities” in Social Science & Medicine

Call for Papers: Special Issue on “Understanding Cognitive Ageing: Individuals, Institutions, and Inequalities” in Social Science & Medicine Guest editors Ariane Bertogg (University of Konstanz), Giulia Tattarini (University of Hamburg), and Damiano Uccheddu (University of Louvain) invite submissions for the special issue “Understanding Cognitive Ageing: Individuals, Institutions, and Inequalities” in Social Science & Medicine. This […]

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New GOLTC Methods guide: Propensity Score Matching (PSM)

We are delighted to share with you a new GOLTC Methods Guide on Propensity Score Matching (PSM). The GOLTC Methods Guides are short introductions to useful methods for Long-Term Care research written by researchers who use these methods and want to share their experience and knowledge. The Propensity Score Matching guide has been written by Joaquin Mayorga […]

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Long term care is family care in Southern Africa: What are the costs? 27 September 2024

Long term care is family care in Southern Africa: What are the costs? GOLTC Care and Social Protection in Southern Africa Interest Group webinar Date: 27th September 2024 Time: 13:00-14:30 BST (you can check your local time here.) Link: Register to join on Zoom This seminar will explore the different dimensions of the costs of family care, […]

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JOB POSTING: Project Manager for a project to evaluate an intervention to support the mental health of pregnant women in Gambia, South Africa and Lesotho

New Job Posting: NIHR Global Health Research Groups in Community Health Intervention through Music Engagement (CHIME) Project Manager (4 years fixed term) Deadline for applications: 30 August 2024 Expected interview dates: 13 or 16 September 2024 Description: The University of Roehampton London is recruiting a Project Manager (4 years, fixed term) for a research […]

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Beyond simply “scaling up”: Defining successful social care innovation from a lived experience perspective

The Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC), based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), has recently published a blog about scaling up social care interventions. The blog is written by Clenton Farquharson, Sandra Paget, Jennifer Pearl and Paula Sardhina, who are all members of the Lived Experience Reference group of the […]

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GOLTC Blog Post: Long-Term Care Policy Update for Sweden

Sweden’s Evolving Long-Term Care System: Governance, Challenges, and Innovations Following Lennarth Johansson’s presentation during the Long-Term Care Policy Interest Group webinar, Lennarth Johansson from Jönköping University and Nazak Salehi from the London School of Economics have prepared a blog post detailing the current situation and recent developments in Sweden’s long-term care (LTC) policy. You can […]

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JOB POSTING: WHO International Consultant – Technical assistant on Long Term Care

New Job Posting: WHO International Consultant – Technical assistant on Long Term Care Deadline for applications: 19 July 2024 Purpose of consultancy: The purpose of this consultancy is to provide expert technical assistance and support the work of the WHO team in Ukraine. In its collaboration with the MoSP and other development partners to […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: State of LTC Assessment: Multi-stakeholder participatory approaches

GOLTC webinar – State of Long-Term Care Assessment: How can multi-stakeholder participatory approaches be used to build consensus and plan LTC reforms? This GOLTC Long Term Care Policy Interest Group webinar took place on the 24th June 2024, as a joint even with the WHO Regional Office for Europe and Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: Current long-term care policies and challenges in three Asian tigers

On 25 March, the GOLTC Long-Term Care Policy Interest Group convened a webinar on “Current long-term care policies and challenges in three Asian tigers”. The webinar featured: Welcome and Introduction to the GOLTC LTC Policy Interest Group (Adelina Comas-Herrera, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, LSE) Chairing and session introduction (Johanna Fischer, University of Bremen) Presentations: […]

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GOLTC Blog post: Spain’s new National Strategy for a new model of community care

On the 18th June the Spanish Congress approved a National Strategy for a new model of care in the community (2024-2030). We are delighted that the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumer Affairs and 2030 Agenda have contributed a blog post providing an overview of the Strategy’s objectives, its scope, and the public participation process through which it […]

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NEW CPEC BLOG on hidden carers

For Carers’ Week, which took place between 10-16 June 2024, the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC) based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) published a blog exploring the concept of “hidden carers”: people who do not identify themselves as carers, or who do not feel comfortable using the term to […]

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Invitation to participate in a Delphi to create a Readiness Assessment Tool for care innovations

Long-Term Care needs to keep up with the changing expectations of clients and the community, as well as new regulations. This means constantly improving clinical care, personal support, social activities, and daily living services – backed by better quality, environmental, business, and safety systems. Implementing these innovations can be tough. We are using a […]

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Reminder to register for the ILPN2024 conference in Bilbao!

Do you want to connect with the global community of Long-Term Care? Make sure you’ve secured your spot to attend the 7th International Conference on Evidence-Based Policy in Long-Term Care (IPLN2024), taking place from 12 to 14 September 2024 at the prestigious Euskalduna Conference Centre in Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain. Co-hosted by the International Long-term Care […]

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GOLTC blog post: Long-Term Care Financing lessons for Low- and Middle-Income countries

We are delighted to share a new GOLTC blog post by the World Health Organization’s Centre for Health Development introducing their new series of research briefs on Financing Long-Term Care: Lessons for Low- and Middle-Income countries, which summarise existing international evidence on Long-Term Care Financing and then consider the potential application of the findings to […]

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NEW GOLTC system profile: Long-Term Care in Serbia

We are delighted to share the new GOLTC Long-Term Care system profile for Serbia, written by Nataša Todorović and Milutin Vračević (Red Cross of Serbia and Gerontological Society of Serbia). Highlights from the LTC system profile for Serbia: Formal Long-Term Care services in Serbia are split between the social welfare, healthcare and the pension insurance systems, without much […]

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New GOLTC interest group: Technology and Long-Term Care

We are delighted to welcome a new GOLTC interest group on Technology and Long-Term care, with thanks to Jacqueline Damant (Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science), Paul Freddolino (School of Social Work, Michigan State University) and Tenzin Wangmo (Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel) for setting it up and forming […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: Supporting young and young adult carers: International practice and policies

We are delighted to share the recording from this webinar organised by the GOLTC Employment, Education, and Family Carers Interest Group that took place on the 22nd March 2024. The GOLTC Employment, Education and Family Carers interest group seeks to share research exploring these impacts and experiences of national and/or local policies and strategies to […]

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GOLTC Webinar recording: Understanding and reducing dementia stigma

The World Alzheimer report 2019 showed how stigma is a huge compounder of the difficulties caused by dementia. In this webinar on the 11th April 2024, we learnt about research on how to measure and understand dementia stigma, about two interventions in Brazil and Kenya to reduce stigma, and the new 2024 worldwide survey on […]

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To Stay or to Go: Institutional vs Home-based Long-Term Care (LTC) 23 July 2024

To Stay or to Go: Institutional vs Home-based Long-Term Care (LTC) GOLTC Quasi-Experimental Methods Interest Group webinar Date: 23 July 2024 Time: 1pm BST (you can check your local time here.) Link: Register to join on Zoom As populations age, a key question is whether institutional or home-based care better serves long-term care (LTC) recipients’ […]

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NEW GOLTC system profile: Long-Term Care in Ireland

In the GOLTC Long-Term Care system profile for Ireland, Brendan Walsh and Sheelah Connolly (Economic and Social Research Institute and Trinity College Dublin) describe the Irish LTC system. Highlights from the Irish LTC system profile: The Irish LTC system relies heavily on unpaid family care, supplemented by publicly funded formal services. The most established component […]

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Pain Management in Long-Term Care Facilities. 17 September 2024

Pain Management in Long-Term Care Facilities GOLTC Pain in Care homes Interest Group webinar Date: Tuesday 17 September 2024 Time: 12:00-13:00 BST Link: Register to join on Zoom Pain is connected with emotional, cognitive, and behavioural disorders as well as functional issues. Moreover, chronic pain increases suffering, disability and social isolation which impacts negatively upon […]

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Creando red: primera reunión del grupo de interés sobre cuidados de larga duración en España (in Spanish), 15 July 2024

GOLTC “Long-Term Care in Spain” Interest Group webinar (this event will be in Spanish) Dia: 15/07/2024 Hora: 12:00-13:30 CET (11:00-12.30 BST) Inscripción: para obtener el link de Zoom El grupo de interés sobre cuidados de larga duración en España del Global Observatory of Long-Term Care (GOLTC) tiene como objetivo ofrecer oportunidades de intercambio de conocimiento […]

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Profil des Langzeitpflegesystem für Österreich

Wir freuen uns, die deutschsprachige Version des österreichischen Profils des Langzeitpflegesystem zu teilen. Danke an Ulrike Famira-Mühlberger (WIFO, Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung)and August Österle (WU, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien). Sie können das Profil des Langzeitpflegesystem für Österreich hier lesen.

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State of Long-Term Care Assessment: How can multistakeholder participatory approaches be used to build consensus and plan LTC reforms? 24 June 2024

State of Long-Term Care Assessment: How can multistakeholder participatory approaches be used to build consensus and plan LTC reforms? Connect with the Long-Term Care Policy Interest Group to find out! GOLTC Long Term Care Policy Interest Group webinar Date: 24 June 2024 Time: 13.00-14.30 BST Link: Register to join on Zoom Multistakeholder, participatory processes are […]

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Save the date! International Day of Care and Support, 29 October 2024: Long-Term Care around the world

To mark the United Nation’s International Day of Care and Support, on the 29th October 2024, we are planning a 12-hour event on “Long-Term Care around the world”. We’ll have more details soon, but for now we are keen to hear from any of you who’d like to be involved, either presenting, or organising sessions. […]

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New research project: National Dementia Workforce Study (USA)

The National Dementia Workforce Study (NDWS) was established in Fall 2023 through a cooperative agreement with the National Institute on Aging to field the first large, national surveys of the professional dementia care workforce in the U.S. This collaborative, interdisciplinary endeavor is led by teams at the University of Michigan and the University of California, San […]

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