dr. Alenka Oven
Institute for Long-term care
dr. Alenka Oven
Doctor of Legal Sciences in the field of Social Security Law, Specialist in Long-Term Care, Patients’ Rights, and Health Care
In 2014, she founded and has since managed the private Institute for Long-Term Care with the mission of raising awareness about healthy ageing and preventing future dependence on the care of others, with an emphasis on patients’ rights.
As a legal expert with both academic and practical experience, she is a member of numerous national and international projects in the field of long-term care and health, as she understands both the challenges in practice and the legislative processes and limitations.
She currently collaborates with various faculties on a contractual basis, delivering lectures in the fields of long-term care and health legislation.
She was listed among the Top 200 Speakers of 2025 in Slovenia.
She develops her expertise as a member of national and international associations in the fields of health and long-term care.
Since March 13, 2026, she has been a member of the Council of the Social Protection Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (participating in the high-level oversight and strategic direction of the institution responsible for preparing the expert foundations for all key social reforms in the country)
Author of professional and popular science articles
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | Serbia; |
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| Topics | Care Homes; Care inequalities; Care integration/ coordination; Care management; Care outcomes; Co-production in LTC; Community-based LTC; Continence Care in LTC; Day Care; Demand for Long-Term Care; End-of-life care and LTC; Ethics and care; Evaluation of LTC systems and services; Financing LTC; Healthcare access in LTC; Loneliness among older people; Long term care subsidies; LTC and people with learning disabilities; LTC and people with mental health conditions; LTC and younger people; LTC insurance; LTC Policy; LTC Reforms; LTC Systems; LTC systems in LMIC countries; LTC utitilisation; LTC Workforce; Minorities and LTC; New models of care; Prevention and rehabilitation and LTC; Priority setting in LTC; Quality of care; Relationship between LTC use and hospital use; Risk in Long-Term Care; Robots and LTC; Social Innovation in LTC; Support for unpaid carers; Universal design and LTC; Unpaid / informal care; Value of LTC; |
| Methods | Case studies; Causal inference in Long-Term Care; Creative research methods; Data science and LTC research; Delphi surveys; Expert consultations; Focus groups; Legal analysis; Pilot study; Projections; Qualitative studies; Questionnaire; Research diaries; Research ethics; Social network analysis; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Ageing and Place; Ageing Commons; Care and social protection in Southern Africa; Care home markets and regulation; Continence Care in Long-Term Care; Economics of Long-Term Care; Employment Education and Family carers; Innovation in Long-Term Care; Integrated Long-Term Care; Long-Term Care in China; Long-Term Care in Spain; Long-Term Care Policy; Pain in Care Homes; Qualitative Research; Quality improvement in Long-Term Care; Technology and Long-Term Care; Workforce Capacity and Capability; Working Conditions and Wages in Long-Term Care; |
| Website | https://dolgotrajna-oskrba.si/en/introduction/about_us/ |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/alenka-oven-44b2b445/ | |
| Research interests | Long-term care, health care, patient rights |
| Key publications | Author of the first handbook I Need Care, What Now?, which compiles the most common legal answers to questions from people in need of care (2019). Author of the introductory explanations to the first adopted Long-Term Care Act in the Republic of Slovenia (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, 2022) and of the introductory explanations to the Long-Term Care Act (ZDOsk-1, Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, 2024). Editor and author of the Commentary on the Patients’ Rights Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, publication December 2024) |