NEWS: Care needs poverty and deprivation Topic
Care needs poverty and deprivation
01 Oct 2025
GOLTC Blog post: Family Care and the Limits of Ageing in Place in South Africa
In this post Vayda Megannon, Elena Moore and Zeenat Samodien (University of Cape Town) share a new study of the Family Caregiving Programme, undertaken across seven sites in the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces. The study engaged with 96 older persons and 103 family caregivers to explore the lived dynamics of elder care. The findings reveal that […]
08 Jul 2025
Unmet need, inequalities, and care poverty in theory and practice. 22 Oct 2025
GOLTC Unmet need, inequalities and care poverty (UNICAP) Interest Group webinar Many disabled and older people worldwide go without their care needs being adequately met and there are deep inequalities in who has their care needs met and how. This has implications for policy, practice and the individuals themselves. Inadequate meeting of care needs, and […]
21 Jun 2024
Reminder to register for the ILPN2024 conference in Bilbao!
Do you want to connect with the global community of Long-Term Care? Make sure you’ve secured your spot to attend the 7th International Conference on Evidence-Based Policy in Long-Term Care (IPLN2024), taking place from 12 to 14 September 2024 at the prestigious Euskalduna Conference Centre in Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain. Co-hosted by the International Long-term Care […]
21 Feb 2024
NEW REPORT Programa Maior Cuidado: An Integrated Community-Based Intervention on Care for Older People
This report describes an innovative integrated community-based care intervention for people living in deprived neighbourhoods in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The Programa Maior Cuidado has been running since 2011, providing people with up to 20 hours of support per week from professional family care workers. It has been jointly run by the municipal […]