State of Long-Term Care Assessment: How can multistakeholder participatory approaches be used to build consensus and plan LTC reforms?

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GOLTC Long Term Care Policy Interest Group webinar

Date: 24 June 2024

Time: 13.00-14.30 BST

Link: Register to join on Zoom

Multistakeholder, participatory processes are important in shaping ambitious, inclusive, and sustainable long-term care policy reforms that address the care needs and preferences of diverse communities. In support of efforts under the EU Care Strategy, the WHO Regional Office for Europe and Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (DG EMPL) at the European Commission have developed the ‘State of LTC’ assessment framework to support the efforts of EU Member States in strengthening their long-term care systems. The framework promotes a participatory, multi-stakeholder approach to collecting data, building consensus on system-level goals, informing strategic planning and reform processes, and promoting performance management.

The Global Observatory of Long-Term Care (GOLTC) will be hosting a webinar where WHO Europe and DG EMPL will present a proposed approach of engaging diverse stakeholders in participatory LTC reform processes, as envisioned through the State of LTC assessment. This will be followed by presentations on experiences from Member States where such participatory processes have been carried out using the State of LTC instrument and a discussion on the value that participatory processes have in LTC reforms.

The webinar will cover:

1. Introduction to the Global Observatory of Long-Term Care and the LTC Policy Interest Group (Adelina Comas-Herrera, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, LSE, UK)

2. Presentation of multistakeholder participatory approaches to LTC reform, as envisioned through the State of Long-Term Care Assessment process (Diana Eriksonaite, DG EMPL & Cassandra Simmons, WHO Regional Office for Europe).

3. Intervention on the national assessment in Ireland (Brian McGahey, Older Persons Strategy Unit, Department of Health, Ireland)

4. Intervention on the national assessment in Greece (Maria Karagiannidou, WHO Athens Office on Quality of Care and Patient Safety)

5. Q&A and discussion