Ideas, research and the stories behind our work
Explore our collection of articles, expert commentaries, and published works. Here you will find the thinking that drives our practice and the ideas we believe are worth sharing.
Project Insights
The word nobody used
Sociologist Alexandra Lopes form University of Porto (Portugal) shares her findings on what long-term care systems reveal about inequality and what they manage to keep out of sight.
Long-term care and housing: Quality of life, shared living and sustainable care
In this article, we summarise the Policy Lab discussion, explore implications for older people’s care policy, link to Europe’s inclusion debate, and conclude with key learning points.
Not a care home. Not co-housing. Everything in between.
A conversation with researcher Roberta Perna, IPP-CSIC (Spain) about an enthnography on innovative small care home for older people.
Hanging out with people: Fragments and reflections from ethnographies in long-term care
A conversation with anthropologists Jeannette Pols and Sabya van Elswijk (University of Amsterdam) on LeTs‑Care ethnographies and meanings of daily long‑term care work
A step back to move forward: rethinking long-term care across Europe
An interview with sociologist Bernhard Weicht (University of Innsbruck), on why long‑term care defies simple definitions, and how LeTs‑Care studies meanings, contexts, and the discomforts that shape care work and research.
What we talk about when we talk about long-term care
Long-term care for older adults is one of Europe’s most urgent challenges. Yet what it actually means remains wide open.
Sociologist Barbara Da Roit (University of Venice Ca’ Foscari) takes us deep into the meandres of the EU-funded LeTs-Care project, trading “best” practices for meaningful ones, comfort for complexity, and easy answers for better questions.
Project Outputs
Who cares for Granma?
There is an online interactive tool, recently developed by sociologists from the University of Innsbruck, which lets users compare LTC responses from seven countries.
Long-term care landscape in Portugal: insights on quality, workforce, needs, inequality, sustainability
This collection brings together five national reports about Portugal, covering the meanings of quality of long-term care, workforce conditions, needs assessment, inequality, and sustainability.
The meanings of long-term care in Denmark: a multi-dimensional research collection
This collection brings together five national reports about Denmark, covering care quality, workforce conditions, needs assessment, inequality, and sustainability.
The LeTs-Care Stakeholder Map
What ecosystem surrounds and influences LeTs‑Care? The Stakeholders Map identifies the project’s main actors and their connections, offering an overview that supports strategic engagement, communication, and alignment as the project develops.
The LeTs-Care Reasoned Bibliography
This deliverable contains the review of national grey and scientific literature and includes an open‑access bibliographical database available as a spreadsheet.
Download the complete documents from our Zenodo repository.
The LeTs-Care Informed Consent Templates
This project deliverable contains the informed consent forms used for key‑informant and participant interviews in the LeTs‑Care ethnographic studies. Download the complete templates from our Zenodo repository.