IV Workshop on the evaluation of public policies for sustainability long-term care in Spain

The workshop will be held in Albacete at the “Salón de Actos” in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. Invited presentations (in Spanish and English) will be given by leading experts.

Aims and Scope

• Workshop organized in collaboration with the International Long-Term Care Policy Network.
• To provide a forum for researchers in the area of Long-Term Care Policy in Spain to discuss their work and new results.
• To discuss about relevant topics according the current socioeconomic context.
• To produce policy recommendations.
• To collaborate in the “Observatorio para la evaluacion de politicas de dependencia”, to promote the exchange of long-term care policy and evidence, via a webpage (with resources in English, Spanish and Catalan) and the organization of workshops.

Introduction

The evaluation of public policies that guarantee the sustainability of the Long-Term Care System in Spain is especially relevant at present, because the analysis of welfare is a central concern of economic and social debates. With an increasingly aging population, it is necessary to analyze those phenomena that can most influence the needs of long-term care, highlighting the influence that these needs may have on the development of the care system and the potentiality of the elderly's autonomy. The possibilities for this line of research are even greater if we take into account the opportunities that are opened thanks to the advances in the management of information and the possible design of large databases.

The link of the long-term care system with the development of the labor market in the area of care provision, or the analysis of the causes that may lead to the needs of such care (both endogenous like aging, or exogenous such as diseases or accidents) require continuous research that will lead to the elaboration of recommendations that are necessary for the optimization of the Long-Term Care System. All this is combined with the analysis from a budgetary and managerial point of view, both at the level of the individual and the organizations involved.

The workshop aims to analyze all these approaches as well as those that are likely to come out throughout the working sessions. We encourage you to participate!