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NEWS

19 Jan 2026

Job post: Professor in Ageing and Social Change at Linköping University, Sweden

The Division Ageing and Social Change (ASC, www.ageing.se), Department of Culture and Society (IKOS), at Linköping University, Sweden, is seeking to recruit to the following position:   Professor in Ageing and Social Change   Application deadline: February 22, 2026   Informal enquiries may be made to Andreas Motel-Klingebiel (andreas.motel-klingebiel@liu.se). For further details about the advertised […]

27 Aug 2024

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 […]

02 Aug 2024

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 […]

15 May 2024

Evidence from Sweden on structural characteristics of LTC facilities and COVID-19 mortality. 11 June 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 […]

22 Mar 2024

GOLTC webinar recording: Recent Developments in Long-Term Care Policy in China, France, Japan and Sweden, 26 February 2024

Are you interested in Long-Term Care Policy and would you like to know about the latest developments internationally? On the 26th February, the Global Observatory of Long-Term Care  (GOLTC) hosted the first webinar of the GOLTC Long-Term Care Policy Interest Group. The webinar brought together experts on Long-Term Care in China, France, Japan and Sweden […]

30 Jan 2024

GOLTC Long-Term Care Policy Webinar, 26 February 2024

Recent developments in Long-Term Care Policy: Perspectives from China, France, Japan and Sweden GOLTC LTC Policy Interest Group webinar   Date: Monday 26 February 2024 Time: 13.00-14.00 GMT (you can check your local time here.) Register to join us on Zoom. How are different countries developing and strengthening their Long-Term Care (LTC) systems? The LTC […]

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 […]