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09 Jun 2025
NEW GOLTC System profile: Long-Term Care in England
We are delighted to share the new GOLTC Long-Term Care System profile for England, written by Simon Bottery (King’s Fund) and Natasha Curry (Nuffield Trust). Highlights from the LTC system profile for England: The long-term care (LTC) system in England restricts access to publicly funded support to people with the highest needs and lowest assets […]
03 Jun 2025
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 […]
28 May 2025
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 […]
09 May 2025
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 […]
30 Apr 2025
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 […]
24 Feb 2025
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 […]
08 Oct 2024
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 […]
09 Sep 2024
Health Economics and Policy Evaluation Course. Online Oxford. 7-9th October 2024
Online course on Health Economics and Policy Evaluation Offered by: Oxford Online Dates: 7th October 2024 – 9th October 2024 Registration Deadline: October 1st 2024 Register: here Course Overview: The course will provide an in-depth exploration of the tools utilized by health economists to address health policy issues, focusing on statistics techniques to assess public […]
21 Jun 2024
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 […]
24 May 2024
GOLTC Blog Post: From Theory to Practice, Rethinking Health and Social Care Research Ethics in Action
We are delighted to announced that GOLTC is now also publishing Blog Posts, and we are very pleased to share the first one on Research Ethics, by Chiara De Poli (Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science). In this blog, Chiara de Poli shares key messages from a recent journal article […]
09 Apr 2024
Online Symposium: Developing Competencies amongst Health and Social Care Staff within Care Homes (Thurs 2nd May at 2pm – UK time)
The 2024 Spring Symposium of The British Society of Gerontology’s Care Homes Research Special Interest Group will be on the topic of: Developing Competencies amongst Health and Social Care Staff within Care Homes. The symposium will be held online on the 2nd May (from 2pm-3:30pm UK time), and will comprise three presentations, and a moderated […]
26 Mar 2024
WEBINAR from British Pain Society: Older People’s Pain. 11 April 2024
BPS Older People’s Pain 11 April 2024, Global Webinar Time: 16:00 BST Link: Register to join on Zoom This webinar aims to present some of the findings from the NIHR funded POPPY study by Dr Lesley Brown, Senior Research Fellow, Co-Lead for the POPPY study & Project Manager CARE75+ study, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS […]
10 Nov 2023
Resource Launch: Research in Dementia Map (RESIDE)
The newly launched Research in Dementia Map (RESIDE) provides a comprehensive overview of 810 dementia research projects in the UK. The map was developed by Shari Jadoolal, Maria Karagiannidou, Martin Knapp, Julia Pauschardt, Louise Robinson and Ben Schlaepfer. Given how complex and difficult-to-understand the dementia research landscape can be, RESIDE aims to make it easier […]
09 Nov 2023
Transforming Care Book Seminars: Unpaid Work in Nursing Homes: Flexible Boundaries, 4th December 2023
Transforming Care Book Series Seminar 4 December 2023, Global Webinar (16:30–18:00 CET) This Transforming Care Network seminar will present and discuss a new open access book: Unpaid Work in Nursing Homes: Flexible Boundaries, part of the Transforming Care book series. The rationale for the book is that the COVID-19 pandemic has made unpaid care more […]
12 Oct 2023
Listening and learning: a qualitative study of Scottish care home staff experiences of managing COVID-19 between March 2020-August 2022
Jenni Burton Academic Geriatric Medicine, University of Glasgow This research was planned and conducted to address a gap in the Scottish evidence around understanding events in care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. It sought to engage with those with lived experience managing outbreaks to hear their stories and learn from their experiences. Having been involved […]
11 Oct 2023
Recommended reading: using Difference in Differences to evaluate vertical health and social care integration in Scotland
Javiera Cartagena-Farias Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science The integration between health and social care services is at the core of current policies in many developed countries. It is believed that closer integration of the services provided by healthcare and social care organisations is vital for improving system efficiency […]
05 Jun 2023
Catalogue of UK social care data
Find relevant social care data Social care datasets are gathered in one site to be accessible to social care experts and non-experts alike. Search and filter functions help you find datasets which have collected data on topics you are interested in. The Catalogue of Social Care Data collects and collates information about social care data […]