LeTs-Care works with associated partners across Europe, which deliver, organise and advocate for long-term care on the ground. In this series “Voices from the Field”, they speak in their own words about where they stand, what they see in their country’s care system, and what they bring to the project.
The LeTs Care partners gathered last week in Madrid to add another piece to the puzzle of long term care practices across the EU.
We share what we saw at a construction site in Penafiel, and why the LeTs-Care team wants to be part of this conversation.
The LeTs‑Care consortium continues to strengthen its scientific presence across Europe, with team members contributing cutting‑edge research and thought leadership at major international events.
Inequalities in long‑term care are visible across Europe, yet rarely named. As prof. Lopes found, stakeholders avoid the word itself, speaking instead of differences or disparities. That silence reveals how language shapes debates and obscures the deeper realities care systems struggle to confront.
Over the past year, the LeTs-Care team at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice has run a series of national workshops, each tackling a different pressure point in Italy’s long-term care system.
A summary and review of the second Policy Lab discussion, held online on 26/6/2026
The LeTS-Care team at Uporto and EAPN discuss collaborative housing for ageing communities in remote isolated areas
The Spanish national report on the meanings of LTC is now available on Zenodo
Alongside the discussions held during the project’s Policy Lab on 26 June 2026, we continue our exchange with researcher Roberta Perna, focusing on the innovation potential of a Spanish collaborative‑housing initiative for older people.
How can experiences connecting housing and long‑term care sustain active ageing, independent living, and the rights‑based protagonism of older people?
Join the policy lab on 26/6 and explore with us!
Long‑term care is organised in profoundly different ways across Europe, and understanding those differences is the first step toward designing better, fairer systems.
This short interactive experience can help you explore how people in 7 European countries respond to the very same LTC-related questions.
With anthropologists Jeannette Pols and Sabya van Elswijk we discuss the LeTs‑Care ethnographies in local long-term care initiatives.
The new issue is out now! Also announcing the second policy lab, on June 26th.
Teleassistance should reach every corner of Portugal, says a new law. Now what?
Sociologist Bernhard Weicht explains why “care” resists one definition and how LeTs‑Care examines meanings, contexts, and researchers’ boundaries…
Insights into LeTs-Care research on the contextual factors shaping long-term care in Spain
LeTs-Care coordinator Barbara Da Roit takes us deep into the project’s complexity.
Public Deliverables released: find them on Zenodo
How the analysis of local meaningful practices can help shape long-term care’s future in the EU.
What happens when researchers step out of the theoretical realm and into the heart of real-world care practice?
Professor Barbara Da Roit, Principal Investigator of the LeTs-Care project, has been appointed Co-Chair of the Transforming Care Network (TCN).
Reflections on the Report “Social Economy in Europe: Contributing to Competitiveness and Prosperity”.
A webinar by the Global Observatory on Long-Term Care examined the constraints and enduring myths that continue to hinder progress in LTC
The first LeTs-Care Policy Lab aims at connecting research and policy-making in the field of long-term care.
Three researchers from the LeTs-Care project took part in a roundtable within the UIMP-IMSERSO Summer Course 2025
The LeTs-Care’s first Policy Lab specifically tackles the resilience and sustainability of the care workforce.
At the International Public Policy Association Conference (ICPP7), Prof. Poškutė (ISM) presented a paper on long-term care needs in Lithuania.
The LeTs-Care Consortium is committed to make significant steps in engaging with the key stakeholders.
The first Spanish LeTs-Care workshop was held on May 22nd at the Espacio Converge in Madrid.
Santa Casa da Misericórdia do Porto and the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto sign a protocol in the LTC field.
The first Austrian LeTs-Care workshop was held on May 16th 2025 at the University of Innsbruck.
LeTs-Care is part of a cluster of EU-funded projects focussing on innovation in practices and policies in the LTC sector.
The LeTs-Care research team at UIBK participated in the 7th ESPAnet Austria Research Conference, on 24-25 April 2025.
Gathered in Porto, the LeTs‑Care Consortium moved forward with the project’s ethnographic research.
Prof. Da Roit applies the “LeTs-Care approach” to the joint challenges of aging and climate change.
The Workshop, organised by the DG for Research and Innovation, is a platform for projects to showcase their results.
At the Consortium meeting in Roskilde, the LeTs-Care team began reflecting on the ‘meanings’ of key care-related concepts.
In an interview, Prof. Da Roit, Principal Investigator in the LeTs-Care project, traces the origins of the Italian system of care for the non-self-sufficient.
The LeTs-Care project has officially started with a successful kick-off meeting held in Venice, Italy, on April 3rd and 4th, 2024.