The Laurel Community

The Laurel Community is a dynamic, collaborative network uniting carers, health and social care professionals, people with long-term care needs, policymakers, researchers, and technology providers—all working to shape the future of Integrated Long-Term Care.

By joining, you’ll gain access to exclusive opportunities to collaborate, innovate, and influence the future of care, including:

Engaging webinars, conferences, and events

Interactive workshops and focus groups

Strategic partnerships with EU-funded projects

The power to shape policy recommendations

The Laurel team is ready to collaborate—whether you’re an individual or part of an organisation or network, your voice matters. Get involved today and be part of the movement transforming long-term care!

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Activities

Webinar Announcement: From Rights to Reality: EHDS and Patient Needs in Integrated Long-Term Care

Laurel and EQUICARES collaborate to support more inclusive care in Europe

Laurel workshop gathers expert input at ICIC26

Webinar announcement: Ensuring Equitable Integrated Long-Term Care (I-LTC) Services for Rural and Vulnerable Communities

Best Practices

Objectives

The involvement of stakeholders in the Laurel Community is crucial to understanding better stakeholders’ needs and recommendations. Furthermore, this exchange of information and collective knowledge sharing and learning will create several opportunities for stakeholders. The Laurel Community has six main objectives:

Foster collaboration and mutual learning

Provide an opportunity for stakeholders to exchange knowledge, share best practices, and learn from each other’s experiences.

Identify integrated long-term care needs

Engaging with a broad range of stakeholders with diverse needs and perspectives will ensure that the project’s policy recommendations are tailored to meet real-world needs, making them more effective and person-centred.

Enhance Laurel project impact

By involving different actors, the project will gain visibility and reach a wider audience, which is crucial for achieving the expected impact of the Laurel project results and raising awareness about integrated long-term care and its actionable policies.

Ensure sustainability and adoption

Having a strong Laurel Community will help ensure that the project's outcomes are sustainable. They would therefore continue to benefit the target audience even after the project's completion.

Encourage policy-level and system-level change

Engaging with policymakers which hold a representative mandate at different territorial levels, i.e., EU, national, regional, as well as with other influential stakeholders, is intended to create opportunities to influence integrated long-term care policy decisions and health and social care decision-making, thus supporting the potential influence of the eventual Laurel project results on broader health and care systems.

Establish synergies with other EU funded projects and initiatives

Mapping to earlier or still existing communities will open up avenues for knowledge exchange, collaboration, and co-creation on topics of common interest, thereby maximizing the impact of these clusters or initiatives. These communities could be ones which were activated by previous EU-funded projects that were, or are now, more advanced in their implementation of integrated long-term care-related activities.