Thematic Panels are parallel sessions hosted by Panels’ convenors that, within the general conference theme, address a specific topic.

List of Thematic Panels:

1. Social care and the changing service pathways of older adults
2. Carer rights and risks of inequalities throughout the life-course
3. New technologies in care work – imaginaries, phantasms and new practices of care
4. Participatory rights as social rights: institutions, consequences, and concepts in long- term care
5. The emergence and potential of a rights agenda for unpaid/family carers: the roles of state actors, carers’ organisations and international agencies 
6. Digital technology and care: resources, rights and risks
7. A human rights approach to dementia care: actors, policies, and provisions
8. Caring beyond cure in the narratives from Global South
9. Strengthening informal carer’s social rights through public policies
10. The emerging interaction between familial and paid care: a comparative Global South perspective
11. Care responsibility and social rights in a welfare mix
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13. Dark side of care
14. Climate change and long-term care: a perspective on human and social rights of people who receive and provide long-term care
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16. Children’s role as unpaid carers and its social consequences from human and social rights perspectives
17. Navigating entangled systems: institutional interplays in care systems
18. Inequalities in care
19. Disability and human rights: addressing support gaps across communities and institutions
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21. Autonomy in long-term care – ideas, discourses, regulations, and practices
22. Changing policies and cultures of motherhood and fatherhood
23. Transformations in home care markets: organisational intermediaries, platformisation, and the impact of digitalisation on care regimes
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25. Transforming early childhood education and care services
26. Transforming care work: changing working conditions, actors, approaches and outcomes
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