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GOLTC webinar recording: Home Care Teams – Effect on Patients and Economic Policies to keep them in Place and Thriving

GOLTC webinar recording: Home Care Teams – Effect on Patients and Economic Policies to keep them in Place and Thriving

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Published:
22 Aug 2024

GOLTC Economics of LTC Interest Group webinar

Date: 6 June 2024

Time: 14:0015:00 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? “ to discuss the importance of caregiver teams in relation to patient’s wellbeing. The discussion is followed by Dr Courtney Van Houtven presenting on economic costs of unpaid care and policies to help both unpaid carers and patients thriving in place.

The webinar covers:

  1. Introduction to the Global Observatory of Long-Term care and the Economics of LTC and welcome (Adelina Comas-Herrera, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, LSE, UK).
  2. Introduction to the GOLTC Economics of LTC Interest Group (Sedighe Hosseini-Jebeli, Newcastle University, UK)
  3. “Home Care Teams: Effect on Patients and Economic Policies to keep them in Place and Thriving “ Presentation (Dr. Norma Coe , University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Courtney Van Houtven , Duke University, USA).
  4. Questions and answers: led by Dr. Elizabeth Lemmon, Edinburgh University, UK.
  5. Discussion around the policy making solutions led by Cassandra Simmons, WHO, Europe regional office.