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GOLTC webinar recording: Enhancing care home quality using wearable tech and social network analysis
16 Dec 2024
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 can be used to generate real-time social network data revealing the nuanced […]
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GOLTC webinar recording: Social Protection, Inequality and Re-distributive justice in Southern Africa: What are the challenges for elder care?
13 Dec 2024
Social Protection, Inequality and Re-distributive justice in Southern Africa: What are the challenges for elder care? GOLTC Care and Social Protection in Southern Africa Interest Group webinar Date: 22 November 2024 Time: 1pm-2.30pm GMT The webinar covers: -Introduction to the Global Observatory of Long-Term care and welcome (Adelina Comas-Herrera, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, LSE, […]
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GOLTC webinar recording: Missing the mark – Effects of abolishing co-payments for social assistance in the Netherlands
13 Dec 2024
GOLTC Quasi-Experimental Methods Interest Group webinar Date: 19 November 2024 Time: 1 to 2 pm GMT Local public provision of social assistance to older individuals can improve well-being and prevent the use of expensive care but needs to be targeted well. This study evaluates a Dutch policy reform that restricted the ability of municipalities to […]
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GOLTC webinar recording: Global Harmonisation of Pain Outcome Measurement for Better Care in Long-Term Care Facilities and Beyond
26 Nov 2024
GOLTC Pain in Care homes Interest Group webinar Date: Tuesday 12.November Time: 12pm – 1pm GMT 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 a person’s emotional, psychological, emotional and social wellbeing and consequently leads to a reduced quality of life and more […]
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GOLTC Webinar Recording: Long term care is family care in Southern Africa – What are the costs?
13 Nov 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 This seminar explores the different dimensions of the costs of family care, i.e. the ways that access to resources makes care possible but also […]
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GOLTC Webinar Recording: The International Migration and Recruitment of Care Workers – Lessons from Japan
31 Oct 2024
GOLTC Migration, Mobility and Care Workers Interest Group webinar Date: Monday, 23 September 2024 Time: 1pm – 2pm BST Long-term care systems face chronic shortages of care workers and ever-increasing demand for care. While the role of migrant workers in care systems is longstanding, different policy approaches to international migration and recruitment are emerging in […]
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Upcoming CPEC webinar: Navigating the Path to Comprehensive Carers’ Support
15 Oct 2024
Carers play an indispensable role in our society, providing essential support to those in need. However, many who provide care do not identify as carers, and as a result, they remain “hidden” from the very support systems designed to assist them. Even those who do recognise their role often struggle to navigate the complex landscape […]
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GOLTC webinar recording: Pain Management in Long-Term Care Facilities
08 Oct 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 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 a person’s emotional, psychological, emotional and […]
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GOLTC webinar recording: To Stay or to Go: Institutional vs Home-based Long-Term Care
05 Sep 2024
GOLTC Quasi-Experimental Methods Interest Group webinar Date: 23 July 2024 Time: 1pm BST As populations age, a key question is whether institutional or home-based care better serves long-term care (LTC) recipients’ health needs. Using administrative data from 2009-2014 from Spain, the authors compare changes in hospitalization rates between nursing home and home-based LTC recipients. […]
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GOLTC webinar recording: Creando red: primera reunión del grupo de interés sobre cuidados de larga duración en España
28 Aug 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) 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
27 Aug 2024
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
22 Aug 2024
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?
20 Aug 2024
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?
14 Aug 2024
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
13 Aug 2024
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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Long term care is family care in Southern Africa: What are the costs? 27 September 2024
30 Aug 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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GOLTC webinar recording: State of LTC Assessment: Multi-stakeholder participatory approaches
08 Jul 2024
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
01 Jul 2024
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 webinar recording: Supporting young and young adult carers: International practice and policies
14 Jun 2024
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
07 Jun 2024
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
06 Jun 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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Creando red: primera reunión del grupo de interés sobre cuidados de larga duración en España (in Spanish), 15 July 2024
04 Jun 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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Evidence from Sweden on structural characteristics of LTC facilities and COVID-19 mortality. 11 June 2024
15 May 2024
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: 13:00-14:00 BST Link: Register to join on Zoom The Structural Characteristics of Long-Term Care Facilities and COVID-19 Mortality: Evidence […]
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Home Care Teams: Effect on Patients and Economic Policies to keep them in Place and Thriving. 6 June 2024
13 May 2024
Home Care Teams: Effect on Patients and Economic Policies to keep them in Place and Thriving GOLTC Economics of LTC Interest Group webinar Date: June 6th 2024 Time: 14:00-15:00 BST Link: Register to join on Zoom What are the patient outcomes of the home care teams, and how can we understand the economic policies to improve […]
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GOLTC webinar: Understanding and reducing dementia stigma. 11 April 2024
26 Mar 2024
We are delighted to announce the next webinar from the Global Observatory of Long-Term Care (GOLTC), which will be convened by the Strengthening Responses to Dementia interest group. Understanding and reducing dementia stigma GOLTC Strengthening Responses to Dementia Interest Group webinar: Date: 11th April 2024 Time: 13.00-14.30 BST (you can check your local time here.) […]
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GOLTC webinar recording: Beyond words, can CHATGPT ease the care documentation burden? 12 March 2024
24 Mar 2024
Care managers can dedicate around 6 hours per week manually transcribing handwritten notes from care assessments into electronic databases. Social enterprise Beam’s Magic Notes uses AI to automatically generate audio recordings of case management meetings into case notes, freeing up workers to spend more time assessing needs and arranging care. In this webinar or the […]
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GOLTC webinar recording: Economics of Long-Term Care 1st Webinar with Elizabeth Lemmon and David Bell, 7 March 2024
22 Mar 2024
The GOLTC Economics of Long Term Care interest group held its first webinar on the 7th March, with an overview of the literature on the economics of Long-Term Care by Dr Lemmon and Prof Bell, summarising their chapter, ‘The Economics of Long-Term Care’, in the recently published Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Ageing. This was followed by […]
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How can we better understand preferences for ‘Ageing-In-Place’ (AIP) | GOLTC webinar recording
09 Feb 2024
Are you interested in connecting with others who are using quasi-experimental methods in long-term care research? On Wednesday 24th January 2024, the new Global Observatory of Long-Term Care (GOLTC) hosted a webinar which brought together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to share and discuss quasi-experimental methods and what they have shown us about Ageing in […]
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Cracking the code: Latest data science trends in long-term care research | GOLTC webinar recording
05 Feb 2024
Are you interested in connecting with others who are using data science in long-term care research? On Tuesday 5 December 2023, the new Global Observatory of Long-Term Care (GOLTC) hosted a webinar which brought together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to share and discuss the latest applications of data science in long-term care research. The webinar […]
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How can we better understand preferences for ‘Ageing in Place’? 1st GOLTC Quasi-Experimental Methods Interest Group webinar, 24th January 2024
03 Nov 2023
GOLTC Quasi-Experimental Methods Interest Group 1st webinar Date: 24 January 2024 Time: 13.00-14.00 GMT (you can check your local time here) Register to join us on Zoom What are innovative ways we can apply quasi-experimental methods to long-term care research? Connect with the Quasi-Experimental Methods Interest Group to find out! Many older people choose to […]
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Cracking the code: data science in Long-Term Care research, 1st GOLTC data science interest group webinar, 5th December 2023
26 Oct 2023
GOLTC Data Science Interest Group webinar, 5th December 2023 Time: 13.00-14.00 GMT (you can check your local time here) Register to join us on Zoom Are you interested in connecting with others who are using data science in Long-Term Care research? The Global Observatory of Long-Term Care (GOLTC) will be hosting a webinar to […]
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