Collaborative housing for ageing communities in outlying areas
The LeTS-Care team at Uporto and EAPN discuss collaborative housing for ageing communities in remote isolated areas
New publication of LeTs-Care national report on Zenodo
The Spanish national report on the meanings of LTC is now available on Zenodo
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.
Not a care home. Not co-housing. Everything in between.
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.
Online policy lab approaching!
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!
Who cares for Granma?
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.
Hanging out with people: Fragments and reflections from ethnographies in long-term care
With anthropologists Jeannette Pols and Sabya van Elswijk we discuss the LeTs‑Care ethnographies in local long-term care initiatives.
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
The Spring 2026 issue of the LeTs-Care newsletter is out!
The new issue is out now! Also announcing the second policy lab, on June 26th.
From law to practice: LeTs-Care joins Portugal’s debate on teleassistance
Teleassistance should reach every corner of Portugal, says a new law. Now what?
A step back to move forward: rethinking long-term care across Europe
Sociologist Bernhard Weicht explains why “care” resists one definition and how LeTs‑Care examines meanings, contexts, and researchers’ boundaries…
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.
LeTs-Care findings at Spain’s National LTC Congress in Seville
Insights into LeTs-Care research on the contextual factors shaping long-term care in Spain
What we talk about when we talk about long-term care
LeTs-Care coordinator Barbara Da Roit takes us deep into the project’s complexity.
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.
LeTs-Care public deliverables now available on Zenodo
Public Deliverables released: find them on Zenodo
Local perspectives for a European challenge
How the analysis of local meaningful practices can help shape long-term care’s future in the EU.
Dutch long-term care practices take centre stage at LeTs-Care Meeting
What happens when researchers step out of the theoretical realm and into the heart of real-world care practice?