Topic
Supporting INclusive development of community-based long-term CARE services through multi-stakeholder participatory approaches (InCARE)
Funding programme
EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (VP/2019/003/0033- Agreement VS/2020/0258 )
Project Leader
European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research
Main Objectives
InCARE aims to promote participatory, innovative and integrated approaches to LTC policy and service development by focusing on aspects that are instrumental for system sustainability and innovation capacity: multi-stakeholder cooperation, evidence based decision-making, capacity building and skills transfer. It focuses on the development of a coherent and coordinated approach to the development of national LTC policy and care services, with a focus on empowering local stakeholders, communities, care users and their families to contribute to and shape the development of LTC services.
We propose social innovation in LTC should reflect the aspirations and needs of older people with functional or cognitive impairment and their caregivers, while emphasizing the role of local communities and service providers to shape care service delivery in innovative ways, facilitated by national policy-level support for adapting, adopting and enhancing these initiatives.
Main outcomes
During three years (2020/11 – 2023/10), InCARE will implement three main types of activities:
1. Formative research activities in support of policy processes, including the creation of a shared knowledge base for all project partners, detailed situational analyses of the LTC landscape in each country, multi-stakeholder workshops leading to the creation of a Theory of Change map and the generation of policy toolkit and road-map.
2. National pilot implementation activities, specific to each country, will be designed, implemented and evaluated by local project teams. National partners will focus on 3 distinct service areas: Caregiver support and community engagement (Spain), Integrated care services (Austria); Data infrastructure and technology (North Macedonia).
3. Technical and support activities, including: coordination, evaluation, monitoring and dissemination activities.
