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25 Mar 2025
GOLTC webinar recording: Accountability mechanisms in nursing home services
GOLTC The Care Home Markets and Regulation Interest Group webinar This webinar presents a recent study on accountability in nursing home services by Ixchel Perez Duran from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen from Utrecht University School of Governance. The research examined both upward and downward accountability mechanisms in nursing home (NH) services, […]
16 Dec 2024
GOLTC webinar recording: Enhancing care home quality using wearable tech and social network analysis
GOLTC Data Science Interest Group webinar Quality in long-term care facilities is often measured at the care home level. Yet individual experiences in the same establishment can vary meaningfully. How can we capture these differences? Bluetooth enabled devices worn by residents and staff can be used to generate real-time social network data revealing the nuanced […]
09 Apr 2024
GOLTC webinar recording: COVID-19 Lessons for Care Home Standards and Regulatory Approaches
The pandemic has shown that in many countries there is much to do to improve the quality of life and safety of people living in residential care facilities, and a tool available to government are regulatory and market shaping policies. This is the first of a series of webinars to explore COVID-19 Lessons to improve […]