Presentation used at the Joint Forum in the framework of UNECE Ministerial Conference on Ageing 2022 to share challenges and dilemmas in the implementation of Long Term Care policies, in general, and transition plan, in particular.
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Long Term Care; challenges & dilemmas in policy making
1. ensuring equal access to long-term care and support
to frail older people and their caregivers
challenges and dilemmas
in policy making
@muricor
sergio.murillo@bizkaia.eus
Rome, 15th June 2022
2. framework
High-level of self-government
within Basque Region, mainly:
Full taxation power
Care management
Track record in ageing policy
Council of older persons (1999)
Active Ageing policies & AAI
Reference site on Active & Healthy
Ageing
Population:
1.144.123 inhabitants
24.7% over 65
76% in Greater Bilbao
112 city/town councils
Socioeconomic figures:
GDP per capita 112% /EU27
Life-expectancy 86.6 women
80.8 men
AROPE 19.92% (EU27 21.9%)
Unemployment 12.8%
Biscay
4. building the framework
Health care + social care
Institutional responsibility
Community involvement
Shared care
Digital + personal care
Care at home, or “like at home”
Health care vs Social care
Community vs institutional
Informal vs profesional care
Digital vs personal care
Residential care vs home care
5. building the framework
Let’s...
recognise ourselves as interdependents.
assume the public responsibility on care.
realize that services can be complementary.
avoid excluding informal carers and community as
care agents.
look at life-course.
Let’s embrace complexity!
8. identifying the aim
…to supporting individuals in an enabling environment to
develop their life project.
Developing life-projects
Personal satisfaction
Quality of life
Support
Change the approach
…from protecting the most vulnerable ones
10. Context: goalds to be developed, set in 2019.
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«Bay of Biscay, Bay of
Care»
definition of a long-term care model in
Biscay and Europe
Deployment of
Carers´ Estatute
etxeTIC service of support to the
permanence at home of people in
situation of dependence
BACKGROUND
PLAN FOR 2019-2023
LEGISLATURE
hands on
11. Bay of Biscay, Bay of Care.
Experts group & report
March 2020. Signing of the Agreement
with AGE Platform Europe, the main
European network of organizations for
the elderly.
Group of experts at the European level for
the definition of the bases of the future
model of long-term care, which responds
responds to the current and future needs
needs of care for people in a situation of
dependency, a challenge shared by the
whole of Europe.
Report to be released in summer 2022.
EXPERTS GROUP
hands on
Updated info in this link
14. dilemmas
Considering long-term care as…
a whole ecosystem
supporting micro-ecosystems
around each person
in need of care
leading his own life project
…dilemmas can be answered.
From prescriptors to advisors in public administrations.
From care plans to life plans with care.
15. dilemmas
Considering long-term care as…
a whole ecosystem
supporting micro-ecosystems
around each person
in need of care
leading his own life project
In COVID19 context… health security or life projects?
Supporting informal carers or replacing them with professionals?
Residential care or home care?
16. ensuring equal access to long-term care and support
to frail older people and their caregivers
challenges and dilemmas
in policy making
@muricor
sergio.murillo@bizkaia.eus
Rome, 15th June 2022