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.

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.
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…
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.
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?
What does LTC have to do with climate change?

Prof. Da Roit applies the “LeTs-Care approach” to the joint challenges of aging and climate change.
Exploring the meanings of care

At the Consortium meeting in Roskilde, the LeTs-Care team began reflecting on the ‘meanings’ of key care-related concepts.
Relevance of comparative analysis in LTC research

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.