A new Interest Group of the Global Observatory of Long-Term Care has been opened, focusing on unmet long-term care needs, care poverty and inequalities in care. The steering group of the Interest Group includes Dr Nicola Brimblecombe (LSE, UK), professor Teppo Kröger (Uni Jyväskylä, Finland) and Dr Ricardo Rodrigues (Uni Lisbon, Portugal). This group aims to explore and discuss the extent, variation (individual and country), how and why people do not get their long-term care (LTC) and support needs adequately met, and the effects on them and the family, friends and paid careworkers who provide care and support for them. The group also aims to explore and discuss how unmet need, inequalities in care, and care poverty can be understood and measured and how structural/wider factors such local and national LTC systems or the environments people live in, as well as individual factors, affect receipt of care and support. As a further aim is to reduce unmet need and inequalities, we are interested in policy successes as well as potential policy actions. You are very welcome to join this new Interest Group.

If you are already a member of the Global Observatory of Long-Term Care you can join the group by filling the form at the bottom of the interest group page or email ilp-network@lse.ac.uk

If you aren’t a member of the Observatory yet you can join us by filling in this form: https://goltc.org/add-new-expert/ and choose any of the interest groups you are interest in.