Voices from the Field
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.
Building better LTC: what LeTs Care learned in Spain
The LeTs Care partners gathered last week in Madrid to add another piece to the puzzle of long term care practices across the EU.
Collaborative housing in Portugal: still everything to define, so much to build
We share what we saw at a construction site in Penafiel, and why the LeTs-Care team wants to be part of this conversation.
LeTs‑Care teams share recent academic work at international conferences
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.
The word nobody used
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.
Learning from the ground up: LeTs-Care’s national workshops on long-term care in Italy
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.
Long-term care and housing: Quality of life, shared living and sustainable care
A summary and review of the second Policy Lab discussion, held online on 26/6/2026
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.