Community based care resources for people with disabilities and older people with care needs

Join us on the 24 June for a multi-disciplinary workshop on accelerating progress towards deinstitutionalization for people with disabilities and older people with care needs, exploring tools to map community-based care and support services.

Date: 24 June 2025

Time: 3:00 to 4.30 CET (2:00 to 3.30 BST), you can check your local time here.

Link: Register to join on Zoom

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 community-based care and support services which are needed to make this vision a reality. The urgent need to accelerate investment in community-based care and support is recognized in both the disability support and long-term care (LTC) sectors, but efforts to align approaches and identify synergies across agenda, while critical, remain rare and not without their challenges.

With financial support and guidance from the Global Disability Fund, the WHO Regional Office for Europe, the ILO Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and the European Disability Forum have joined efforts in a multi-country project aiming to develop tools and approaches to map community-based care and support services for people with disabilities and older people with care needs, highlight gaps in workforce capacity, budgeting and labour relations and informing strategic planning.

Agenda:

• Welcome and opening remarks: Natalia Mattioli, Global Disability Fund
• Presentation of project findings and tools: Stefania Ilinca and Cassandra Simmons (World Health Organization) and Özge Berber-Agtaş (International Labour Organisation)
• Panel discussion: Challenges to the development of community-based care and support services, with Özge Berber-Agtaş (ILO), Natalia Mattioli (GDF), Haydn Hammersley (EDF), Adelina Comas-Herrera (GOLTC) and Stefania Ilinca (WHO)
• Interactive brainstorming session: Identifying joint advocacy priorities between disability and LTC advocates towards more inclusive and community-based care and support systems and deinstitutionalisation
• Plenary discussion
• Closing remarks and next steps