The WHO Global Network on Long-term care(GNLTC) is a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional network of experts that provides strategic and technical advice to WHO in developing norms and guidelines necessary for the implementation of the WHO Global Strategy and Action Plan on Ageing and Health in the area of long-term care.
GNLTC will advise WHO on ways to create equitable and sustainable long-term care models for older people, with a focus on optimizing functional ability and achieving Healthy Ageing.
GNLTC workstreams
Building sustainable and equitable long-term care systems is fundamental to achieving Healthy Ageing. The objective of this workstream will be to provide a common understanding of what long-term care systems are, what constitutes long-term care systems strengthening and identify bottlenecks to achieve sustainable long-term care systems in countries.
ensuring functional ability to live a life that is consistent with basic rights, fundamental freedoms and human dignity
Ensuring services that meet the needs of older people with declines in functional ability is the core of long-term care systems. To maximize outcomes, long-term care services must be provided using a person-centered approach with integration and continuing provision of both assistive care services and services for chronic health management. Furthermore, such assistive health care services must take into account futuristic and innovative technological assistance.
The objective of this workstream will be to provide methodological advice on identifying long-term care services as well as help define key principles that need to be included in long-term care provision. In addition, this workstream will work to help develop technical guidance and training materials to build capacity and support long-term care workforce(both formal and informal caregivers) in countries.
Functional ability is the key to achieving Healthy Ageing. Therefore developing a categorization of functional ability and practical assessment tools for domains of functional ability relevant to long-term care is essential to service provision. This will allow for policy makers to readily assess the population in need, concretize and tailor services and monitor the outcome and quality of services provided.
This workstream will work to provide advice on identifying core domains of functional ability for long-term care as well as develop and identify tools for these core domains.
Innovation is needed to sustainably finance long-term care systems. This workstream will work to strategically advise WHO on the important aspects of financing that enhance sustainable and equitable long-term care provision.
Network meeting reports
Publications
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