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GOLTC Webinar Recording: Continence Assessment in residential long-term care

Webinar recording of the GOLTC Continence Care in Long-Term Care Interest Group Date: 1 October 2025 Accurate assessment is the cornerstone of effective continence care — yet in many care settings, it remains inconsistent, outdated, or poorly integrated into care planning. This session explores how assessment practices can be improved to better reflect the needs […]

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GOLTC Webinar Recording: AI for Agitation: Predicting behavioural distress in dementia care.

Date: Tuesday 23 September 2025 Time: 2pm-3pm BST GOLTC Data Science Interest Group webinar Agitation and aggression in people living with dementia are among the most distressing and difficult-to-manage symptoms in clinical settings. Traditional assessments rely on carer reports, often after the fact, limiting the opportunity for early intervention. In this webinar, Dr Abeer Badawi […]

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Webinar: Older Persons, Disabilities and Social Protection in African contexts. 7 November, 2025

Older Persons, Disabilities and Social Protection in African contexts GOLTC Care and Social Protection in Southern Africa Interest Group webinar Date: 07 November Time: 15.00- 16.30 SAST, 13.00 – 14:30 GMT (you can check your local time here.) Link: Register to join us on Zoom The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities sets […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: Future-Proofing the Workforce: Exploring Emerging Skills Needs in Long-Term Care

Date: 17 September 2025 A webinar recording of the GOLTC Workforce Capacity and Capability Interest Group webinar from September 17, 2025 Delivering high-quality care starts with having the right skills in the right roles. As the aged care sector responds to a growing population with increasingly complex needs, understanding future skill and competency […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: What can England learn from the Covid-19 pandemic experience of other Long-Term Care systems?

Date: 9 September 2025 Time: 1pm-2pm BST, you can check you local time here Join us for the second webinar of the Social Care Reform in England interest group, in this webinar we will cover: Introduction to the Global Observatory of Long-Term care and to the Social Care Reform in England Interest Group, Adelina […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: Social Care Reform in England: taking stock and setting the agenda

Date: 9 July 2025 Time: 1pm-2pm BST This was the first webinar of the Social Care Reform in England interest group, with an analysis of the current state of social care in England, an overview of what we can learn from the history of social care reform attemps in England and a reflection on the […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: Making quality visible: balancing safety and clinical indicators and patient-reported outcome indicators and narratives

GOLTC Quality Improvement in Long-Term Care Interest Group webinar Date: 2 July 2025 Time: 9:00-10:30 BST (10:00 – 11.30 CET) How do we balance safety and clinical indicators, patient-reported outcome measures and narratives? This session explores how indicators and narrative approaches can be used to monitor, compare, and improve the quality of long-term […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: Community based care resources for people with disabilities and older people with care needs

Date: 24 June 2025 Time: 3:00 to 4.30 CET (2:00 to 3.30 BST), you can check your local time here. Even as the prevention of institutionalization and promotion of ageing in place/ at home take centre stage in policy and advocacy agendas, countries around the world are struggling to adequately resource and develop the […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: Intelligent Pain Assessment in Long-term care

GOLTC Pain in Care homes Interest Group webinar Date: Tuesday, June 10th Time: 14:30 PM – 15:30 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 social wellbeing and […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: Community Health Intervention through Music Engagement for Perinatal Mental Health

GOLTC Global Perinatal Mental Health Interest Group webinar Date: 3 June 2025 Time: 10:00 to 11:00 BST Perinatal mental health problems affect up to one in five women worldwide. Mental health problems in the perinatal period are a particular challenge in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) where they can be at least twice as […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: Estimating the Cost of Informal Care with a Novel Two-Stage Approach to Individual Synthetic Control

Estimating the Cost of Informal Care with a Novel Two-Stage Approach to Individual Synthetic Control GOLTC QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL METHODS Interest Group webinar Date: 27 May 2025 Time: 14:00 – 15:00 BST Informal carers provide the majority of care for people living with challenges related to older age, long-term illness, or disability. However, the care they […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: Ageing out of Place – Rethinking Ageing, Place, and Policy in Times of Change

GOLTC Ageing and Place Interest Group webinar Date: 19 May 2025 Time: 11:00 to 12:00 BST Link: Register to join on Zoom The relationship between ageing and place is evolving as demographic trends and societal changes reshape the environments where older adults live, work, and thrive. This workshop explores how the dimensions of being […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: Global initiatives on continence care in long-term care

GOLTC Continence Care in Long-Term Care Interest Group webinar Date: 14 May 2025 Are you interested in continence care in ageing and would like to know the latest initiatives internationally? Continence care for long-term residents has largely remained unchanged since the 1990s, despite profound changes in the long-term care population. Research points out deficiencies […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: The politics of live-in care migration – a comparative study of Taiwan, Austria, and Germany

GOLTC Migration, Mobility and Care Workers Interest Group webinar Date: Thursday, 8 May 2025 Time: 13:00 – 14:00 BST The recruitment and placement of migrant care workers from poorer countries into private households and long-term care services in wealthier countries has become a widespread response to care deficits in different societies around the world. In […]

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GOLTC Webinar recording: Care Workforce Retention – what factors are critical and how they change with worker age?

GOLTC Workforce Capability and Capacity Interest Group webinar Date: 30 April 2025 Time: 9am-10am BST Recruitment is a critical issue for most care sectors internationally, but stemming the loss of highly experienced workers through successful retention strategies must equally be a priority. The presenters identify key factors that are critical for retention of staff […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: Dementia Meeting Centres – Development, evaluation and dissemination

GOLTC Community-Based approaches to Dementia Care Interest Group webinar Date: 28 March 2025 Time: 16:00-17:30 GMT Meeting centres are community-based that offer a welcoming and supportive environment for people living with dementia. They provide a range of services and activities tailored to the needs and interests of individuals with dementia and support for their […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: Ownership, Asymmetric Information, and Quality of Care for the Elderly: Evidence from US Nursing Homes During COVID-19 Pandemic

GOLTC Care Home Markets and Regulation Interest Group webinar Date: 17 March 2025 Time: 13.00-14.00 GMT The pandemic has shown that in many countries there is much to do to improve the quality of life and safety of people living in residential care facilities, and a tool available to government are regulatory and market […]

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IFIC Webinar: Scaling Up and Sustaining Integrated Long-term Care: International Experiences

IFIC Webinar: Scaling Up and Sustaining Integrated Long-term Care: International Experiences10 April 2025, 1pm – 2.30pm Dublin | 2pm – 3.30pm Madrid Register here In 2022, WHO Europe published a policy brief titled “Rebuilding for Sustainability and Resilience: Strengthening the Integrated Delivery of Long-term Care in the European Region,” which outlined a conceptual framework for […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: Quality in long-term care: Rethinking Frameworks and Approaches for assessment and improvement

GOLTC Quality Improvement in Long-Term Care Interest Group webinar Date: March 3, 2025 Time: 2PM to 3:30 PM GMT Ensuring high quality care in long-term care settings is a challenge. This includes the provision of physical and psychosocial care and support, but also a strong focus on person-centeredness and quality of life. From this perspective, aspects such […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: Accountability mechanisms in nursing home services

GOLTC The Care Home Markets and Regulation Interest Group webinar This webinar presents a recent study on accountability in nursing home services by Ixchel Perez Duran from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen from Utrecht University School of Governance. The research examined both upward and downward accountability mechanisms in nursing home (NH) services, […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: Rehabilitation Services for Young-onset Dementias: Examples from high and low-middle income countries

Rehabilitation Services for Young-onset Dementias: Examples from high and low-middle income countries GOLTC Strengthening Responses to Dementia Interest Group webinar Date: 28 November 2024 Time: 1pm-2pm GMT Rehabilitation services for young-onset dementia are scarce yet essential. This webinar explores evidence-based therapies, service models, case studies from high and low-middle income countries and the role […]

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UPCOMING CPEC WEBINAR: Measuring What Matters – the Complexities of Cost-Effectiveness in Policy and Research

REGISTER NOW: https://lse.zoom.us/meeting/register/D-6nZmV2T2OxLhUOwaHwNQ#/registration Cost-effectiveness evaluations are essential for shaping policy and funding decisions, highlighting interventions that offer the best value for money. In practice, these evaluations are often anything but straightforward. How can researchers account for complex, real-world variables? What happens when the benefits of an intervention are difficult to quantify? And how can policymakers […]

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GOLTC Webinar recording: Scaling digital technologies in perinatal mental health – Introducing STePPS CRE & MumMoodBooster example in Australia

GOLTC Global Perinatal Mental Health Interest Group webinar Date: 18th of February 2025 Time: 9am-10am GMT GOLTC and STePPS CRE are collaborating to deliver a series of impactful webinars, fostering knowledge exchange and innovation in digital mental health. This webinar initiative underscores their shared commitment to driving progress, supporting early career researchers, and shaping […]

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GOLTC Webinar recording: Global Perspectives on Work-Life Balance for Informal/ Unpaid Carers

GOLTC Employment, Education and Family Carers Interest Group webinar Date: 10th February 2025 Informal/unpaid carers play a crucial yet often overlooked role in supporting their loved ones. Balancing caregiving responsibilities with work and personal life can be an overwhelming challenge, leading to stress, burnout and compromised well-being. This webinar aims to shed light on the pressing need […]

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Webinar recording: Forced Closures of Care Homes in England – Does Ownership Explain Care Failure?

GOLTC Care Home Markets and Regulation Interest Group webinar Date: 27 January 2025 Time: 1pm-2pm GMT (you can check your local time here.) There is a contentious debate in academic and political circles about whether marketisation and private sector involvement has worsened the crisis facing adult social care. The group’s webinar sheds light on the […]

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GOLTC webinar recording: 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 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?

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

GOLTC “Long-Term Care in Spain” Interest Group webinar (this event was held 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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