Symposia

The Transforming Care Conferences Symposia are parallel sessions focussing on a particular and topical theme.

Each Symposium is organized by a Symposium Chair and includes up to four identified paper authors who will present their papers during the session. One or more Discussants will comment on the papers.

2025 Symposia: 

  1. The impact of the financial costs of care on the social and human rights of older adults
  2. Talking about rights in LTC: a polysemic pool of terms and ideas
  3. New research on ageing and care: key findings of the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare)
  4. A new metric to assess long-term care as a human right: care poverty and unmet needs
  5. Understanding, enhancing and sustaining the quality of life at work for long-term care workers
  6. Understanding inequalities in long-term care needs and care provision using quantitative methods: QAR-Net Care Network
  7. Long-term care (LTC) policies and intergenerational care support in China
  8. Routes out of the care crisis: exploring care system innovations in comparative perspective
  9. Equal social rights to care and living environments for older people – a question of collaboration: CollAge
  10. The right to access and provide quality long-term care
  11. Strengthening supports available to long-term care workers and informal carers for improving their resilience and mental well-being through care partnerships – the EU WELL CARE project
  12. Transforming care in the lives of people with learning disabilities and their family carers through co-production research
  13. The FAMCARE project: care and wellbeing in Dutch families in different policy contexts
  14. Ambivalent care and (non)emancipatory human rights approaches