Laurel was featured at the Transforming Care Conference in Helsinki in June as part of a collaboration with the LeTs-Care project and the BUILD project. .
Members of the two projects worked together on a joint paper titled ‘Integrated, person-centred and innovative long-term care: the questions we need to answer’. It was presented at the conference by Pamela Pasian from Università Ca’ Foscari, who worked on the paper with the team from Panaxea and the Institite for Management in Medicine and Health Sciences in Bayreuth, Germany.
The paper discusses the translations and applications of integrated care and person-centredness in long-term care (LTC) in diverse individual circumstance, as well as institutional, disciplinary and policy contexts as a necessary preliminary step to understand their potential for enhancing autonomy, empowerment, equality, quality of life and wellbeing of those receiving and providing LTC.
All three projects share the common goal of improving LTC systems to be more sustainable, equitable, and responsive to individual needs, and to overcome the challenges arising from rapid demographic and epidemiological changes. Besides, they emphasize the need to engage a diverse range of stakeholders, including people in need for care, formal and informal carers, and policymakers.
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