Driving Innovation in Long-term Care: Innovations, Challenges, and Opportunities

GOLTC Innovation in Long-term Care Interest Group webinar

Date: 24 Nov 2025

Time: 10:00 GMT / 18:00 HKT, you can check your local time here.

Duration:  1.5 hours

Link: Register to join on Zoom

How can we innovate to future-proof long-term care systems?

The Global Observatory of Long-term Care (GOLTC) will be hosting a webinar to explore innovative approaches shaping the future of long-term care. Learn about the pioneering SASCI Project in the U.K., which sought to build evidence on how to support the adult social care sector in starting, implementing, and scaling affordable innovations and the transformative potential of Timebanking in older adult care from Hong Kong. This is a unique chance to gain practical insights, connect with academic experts, and be part of a movement to create more innovative and sustainable long-term care systems worldwide. Don’t miss out—register today!

The webinar will cover:

1. Introduction to the Global Observatory of Long-Term care and welcome (Adelina Comas-Herrera, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, LSE, UK).
2. Introduction to the GOLTC Innovation in Long-term Care Interest Group (Juliette Malley (LSE), Cheryl Chui (HKU))
3. The innovation journey revisited: a unifying frame for guiding innovation in long-term care across a range of contexts? (Juliette Malley, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics)
4. Innovation from the East: The case of Timebanking in older adult care (Cheryl Chui & Shiyu Lu, Tracy, Department of Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong)
5. Discussion

Relevant publications:

• Lu, S., Chui, C. H. K., & Lum, T. Y. S. (2024). Facilitating volunteer engagement among older adults in social services: A case study of an innovative timebank program in a Chinese society. The Gerontologist, 64(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnad010
• Chui, C. H. K., Lu, S., Chan, O. F., Cheung, J., Guo, Y. Q., Liu, Y., & Lum, T. (2023). Universities as intermediary organizations: catalyzing the construction of an Age-friendly city in Hong Kong. Innovation in Aging, 7(3). https://doi:10.1093/geroni/igad016
• Purcell C, Manthorpe J and Malley J (2025) Understanding the Role of Internal Governance Units in the Process of Social Innovation: The Case of Shared Lives Plus in England. Research Policy 54(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2024.105152
• Purcell C, Manthorpe J, Malley J (2025) The challenge of scaling-up social work innovations: a case study of Shared Lives schemes in England. British Journal of Social Work. bcae206 https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae206
• Malley J & Holder J (2024) Evidencing and empowering innovation in adult social care. Research in Practice 20^th Available at: https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/adults/news-views/2024/september/evidencing-and-empowering-innovation-in-adult-social-care/