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ESN SEMINAR Long-Term Care, Prague, 18-10 July 2007 >> presentations now available online.

Long-term care of older people is among the most serious pressures on the provision of social services across the EU. Given the ageing societies of many European countries, policy-makers, charities, researchers but also, crucially, local and regional service providers and their partners need to face up to the issue.

Crucial issues for this seminar will be to provide an overview of demographic change and its financial implications, to review 'where we are at' in terms of the way long-term care is provided (care in the home, community care, situation of carers, direct payments). The integration / coordination of health and social services and the coordination of a range of care providers and commissioners across the public, voluntary and private sectors, including informal carers, will be a special concern.

The seminar will examine EU policy framework on long-term care, social protection, health and demographic change and prepare a Message from Social Services which will be published in late September 2007.

ESN's European Social Services Conference 2006>> focussed on the issue of demographic change - the plenary and workshop presentations are available online.

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PRESENTATIONS now online

ESN has recently held a seminar on long-term care for Older People in Prague in cooperation with SMO CR (the Czech local government association). The conference programme outlines the subject of the the presentations, which can be downloaded below.

Session I: Marian Hosek, Czech Government (Czech only) / Roland Bladh, European Commission / Linda Pickard, London School of Economics

Session II: Pascal Goulfier, ANDASS, France / Luc Kupers, VVOS, Belgium / Audrone Vareikyte, Association of Local Authorities, Lithuania / Geraldine Visser, Eurocarers / Amanda Edwards, Social Care Institute for Excellence, UK.