Why we should care? About Long-term Care

UN WOMEN and UN DESA Focal Point on Ageing jointly held an interactive brown-bag on 7 December 2017 to discuss “Why we should care? About Long-term Care”.

In the context of rapid population ageing, long-term care (LTC) for older people has become an urgent issue for gender equality and human rights everywhere, but policy responses have been slow—putting the well-being both older people and their caregivers in jeopardy.

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UN WOMEN Policy Brief No9 on “Long-term care for older people: A new global gender priority”