What Makes a Home-based Carer Professional? Skills Regime in Homecare for Older People in Hungary?

GOLTC Migration, Mobility and Care Workers Interest Group webinar

Date: June 15 2026

Live-in care work is worldwide characterized by precarious working conditions, low payment, and limited access to social and labor rights globally. Alongside concerns about the exploitation of migrant care workers, an increasing discourse has emerged around the need for the professionalization of home-based care. The Global Observatory of Long-Term Care (GOLTC) will be hosted a webinar to discuss concepts and theories about professionalism and professionalization, based on an empirical research conducted in Hungary.

The webinar covered:

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 CareOrg project (Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck, Goethe University Frankfurt)

3. Presentation: What Makes a Home-based Carer Professional? Skills Regime in Homecare for Older People in Hungary (Dóra Gábriel, ELTE Centre for Social Sciences, CareOrg project)

4. Discussion