Cash & Counseling proporciona una asignación para adquirir servicios de cuidados a largo plazo a domicilio y en la comunidad en lugar de recibirlos de una agencia. De este modo, capacita a los beneficiarios para tomar sus propias decisiones. Una característica de este programa es que los beneficiarios pueden elegir entre contratar a un profesional o a un familiar como cuidador. En este vídeo, la Dra. Pamela Doty, Analista Senior de Políticas del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de…

The Long-Term Care Policy Network in Latin America and the Caribbean (RedCUIDAR+) was created in 2020 to support Latin America and Caribbean countries’ efforts to expand long-term care services for care-dependent older people and increase their institutional and technical capacity in this area. The initiative is supported by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the European Union's EUROsociAL+ Program, and the French Development Agency (AFD). The Government of the Dominican Republic…

Based on the lessons learned in Latin American and Caribbean countries, in this webinar Julio Bango will address the elements to be considered in the construction of Comprehensive Care Systems, such as: the definition of the target population, the guiding principles and their components. Also, he will present a possible political governance and intersectoral management scheme.

Care policies for people experiencing care needs are a priority for the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as for the countries of the European Union. Many countries in the region have advanced in recent years in the construction of comprehensive care systems, assumed as a pillar of national social protection systems. Others have been advancing in the conceptualization of the policy, while at the same time they have been strengthening a set of services for people experiencing…

The population of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is aging and more and more older people will need care and support. At the same time, the supply of care is decreasing. The vast majority of care is provided by women, who experience the negative impact of care on their physical and mental health, and have fewer opportunities to enter the labor market.  Claudia Miranda Castillo will review the current evidence and the challenges regarding the informal care situation in Latin America and…

(Video in Portuguese: https://vimeo.com/644456650) The COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed the precarious and informal conditions in which a large part of the care activity is carried out. As discussed in previous RedCUIDAR+ meetings, care represents an important occupational field, particularly for women who already undertakes caring roles, though most frequently informally and unpaid, or with low salaries. In recent years, numerous countries have developed training spaces to form…

Care policies for older adults living with reduced functional capacity and older people with disabilities with support needs are a priority in Latin American and Caribbean countries and the European Union. Its emergence on the public agenda is caused by the concurrence of three factors: (i) the broad recognition of the right of people to be cared for; (ii) the increasing mobilization around women's rights (and especially three intertwined claims: the co-responsibility of the couple in care, the…

COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the ongoing global lack of preparedness of long-term care systems to guarantee care and safety to older adults who are living with loss of functional ability, representing one of the biggest health and social care crises of this and future generations. Adelina Comas-Herrera will review the international evidence on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the population that uses and delivers care around the world, and measures taken to mitigate these impacts.…

The objective of the Third Meeting of the RedCuidar + was to promote exchange between peers and the promotion of good practices in order to advance in the development and strengthening of long-term care systems. The group reflected on the existing challenges in the field of financing based on three cases: the experiences of designing public policies for care of of older people with reduced functional capacity in Peru, Argentina and Europe.

A competent and stable workforce is critical to the delivery of quality long-term care in nursing homes and residential settings.  Yet, long-term care staff—particularly frontline nursing assistants and home care aides—are undervalued and receive inadequate attention and investments from policymakers, employers and consumers.  The COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated the plight of these essential workers in many countries.  In this presentation, Robyn Stone will describe the current state of LTC…

Demand for long-term services will probably continue to increase in the Latin American and the Caribbean region as a result of population aging. The growth in the number of people with functional dependence could more than triple by 2050, exceeding 27 million. In several countries of the region LTC workers do not receive specific education or training to work in this sector and many elderlies and their families are struggling to attract a retain workers to care for older people dependent on…

At the second meeting of RedCuidar+, held on 13 November 2020, there was a debate on how to increase the supply of dependency care services, both through diversification (residences, day centres, home care, teleassistance services, family support, etc.) and through the involvement of other actors (private sector , non-profit organizations, local communities, etc.). It was based on the concrete experience that some countries in the region (Costa Rica and Chile) and the European Union (Italy) and…