Date: 29th October 2024

Times: 9am to 6pm UK time, you can check your local times here.

To mark the United Nation’s International Day of Care and Support, the Global Observatory of Long-Term Care will host a day long event featuring presentations from experts on Long-Term Care on key topics that need to be addressed to progress towards robust, responsive and equitable Long-Term Care Systems globally, as well as a special session highlighting the World Health Organisation’s work on Long-Term Care. The presentations will be grouped in 6 themes: Unmet Long-Term Care needs; Community-based Long-Term Care; Financing; Workforce; Care homes of the future; Quality of care.

Free registration using this link.

Programme so far:

9.00 Opening

• Adelina Comas-Herrera (GOLTC director and (Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK): Introduction to the Global Observatory of Long-Term Care and key priorities to strengthen LTC systems

9.15 Unmet need

• Teppo Kröger (Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland): TBC
• Julie Byles (University of Newcastle, Australia): What do older people need or want in terms of support and care in later life?
• Viktoria Szenkurok (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria): Informal and formal long-term care utilization and unmet needs in Europe: examining socioeconomic disparities and the role of social policies for older adults
• Discussion

10.30 Community-based care

• Henk Nies (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands): Innovative approaches to community-based care in the Netherlands
• Míriam Montané Goetzenberger (Municipal Institute of Social Services of Barcelona, Spain): New municipal management model of Home Care Service: Proximity teams for home social care in Barcelona 
• Lourdes Zurbanbeaskoetxea Laraudogoitia (Diputation of Bizkaia, Spain): EtxeTIC, a new paradigm of community and technological support for staying at home
• Karla Cristina Giacomin (Municipal Health Department, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil): The challenges of Integrated Community Care in Brazil
• Qiushi Feng (National University of Singapore): Singapore’s strategy of prevention and integrated care in the community and the role of NGOs
• Discussion

11.45 Break

12.00 Financing, with a focus on Low and Middle Income Countries

• Sarah Barber (WHO Centre for Health development (WKC), Kobe, Japan): Long-Term Care financing and lessons for Low-and Middle-Income countries
• Tirta Sutedjo (Director of Poverty Alleviation and Community Empowerment, Ministry of National Development Planning, Bappenas, Indonesia): The development of Long-Term Care systems in Indonesia
• Myo Nyein Aung (Juntendo University, Japan): Effectiveness of a community-integrated intermediary care (CIIC) service model for Thai older adults 
• Elena Moore (University of Cape Town, South Africa): Long-Term Care financing in Southern Africa
• Discussion

13.15 World Health Organization’s work on Long-Term Care

• Hyobum Jang (World Health Organisation): Long-Term Care in the Global Policy Agenda
• Stefania Ilinca (WHO Regional Office for Europe): Priorities and initiatives in the EURO WHO region
• Patricia Morsch (Pan American Health Organization, WHO Regional Office for the Americas): Priorities and initiatives in PAHO
• Amrita Kansal (Southeast Asia Regional Office of WHO: Developments on LTC policy in the SEARO region
• Sarah Barber (WHO Centre for Health development (WKC), Kobe, Japan): Supporting long-tern caregivers in Low and Middle-Income countries 
• Stefania Ilinca (WHO Regional Office for Europe): Empowering informal carers: Core information for informal caregivers to support care and self-care tasks 
• Discussion

14.15 Workforce

• Paola Sillitti (OECD): TBC
• Shereen Hussein (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK): An overview of LTC workforce policy in the UK
• Elaine Ho (National University of Singapore): Multi-directional care, training and aspirations: older Singaporeans and their migrant domestic workers
• Brian McGarry (University of Rochester, United States of America): Workforce Challenges for US Nursing Homes and their Implications for Access and Quality
• Discussion

15.30 Break

15.45 Care homes of the future

• Elisa Pozo Menéndez (Matia Instituto, Spain): Learning to design spaces for living and wellbeing in care homes. Results from 17 study cases from Asturias and Gipuzkoa in Spain
• Frode F. Jacobsen (Centre for Care Research, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences)
• Discussion

16.45 Quality of care

• Cassandra Simmons (WHO Regional Office for Europe): Promoting quality management in Long-Term Care
• Milan van Keulen (Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, the Netherlands): Rethinking regulating person-centred service provision, reflexive regulation in dementia care networks 
• Juliette Malley (Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK): Quality of care vs outcomes
• Jose-Luis Fernandez (Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK): Determinants and implications of quality in long-term care
• Discussion

18.00 Goodbye!

We will add further details of the programme and speakers in the next few days, if you would like any more information, please email us at ilp-network@lse.ac.uk