⏰ 2 days to go! On 29 April at 17:00 CET, editors Eloísa del Pino & Francisco Moreno-Fuentes present Long-Term Care and Older People in Western Europe — with discussant Barbara Da Roit + open Q&A. Haven't registered yet? There's still time 👇 swanseauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

What did COVID-19 reveal about long-term care for older people in Europe, and what must change? 📅 29 April | 17:00 CET Join editors Eloísa del Pino & Francisco Moreno-Fuentes as they present their book, with discussant Barbara Da Roit and Q&A Register here swanseauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

📢 25 March, 12:00 CET | Webinar Join us for the presentation of the Research Handbook on Social Care Policy (ed. Costanzo Ranci & Tine Rostgaard) — 34 chapters, 50+ scholars, a landmark volume on care policy worldwide. 👉 Register: vive-dk.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #SocialCare #CarePolicy #Webinar

🌍 New co-chairs for the Transforming Care Network We welcome Barbara Da Roit and Teppo Kröger as new Co-Chairs of the Transforming Care Network, confident they will lead effectively. Thanks to Costanzo Ranci and Tine Rostgaard for their dedication to shaping TCN into a vibrant community.

📢 The next edition of the Transforming Care Newsletter is coming on January 20! Important updates from the network and upcoming events for the new year — delivered straight to your inbox. 👉 Subscribe here: lnkd.in/eAXEqdvK Membership

Care research is stronger when it is connected!

📢 Reminder: The TCN Research Seminar with Dr. Kateryna Ostrovska takes place 4 Nov at 12:00 (GMT). War, Workforce, and Policy: The Case for Nurse Staffing Mandates. Register to join the discussion on health systems and policy in wartime Ukraine. #TCN

📯 TCN Members' Panel Fall Research Seminar Join Dr. Kateryna Ostrovska, MD, on Nov 4, 12-1 pm (GMT) for a seminar on "War, Workforce, and Policy: The Case for Nurse Staffing Mandates." 📝 Register in advance to participate! tedu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🗓️ Save the date! On September 30, 12-1 PM (GMT), Dr. Amanda Lubit will be hosting an online seminar on "Migrant Muslim Women in Northern Ireland: Harnessing Care to Achieve Belonging and Emplacement." 🔗 Register here tedu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... See you there!

📚Care Poverty and Unmet Needs was presented yesterday. Credits to editors Teppo Kröger, Nicola Brimblecombe, Ricardo Rodrigues, Kirstein Rummery and to Tamara Daly for the great discussion. 📽️Recording coming soon on the TCN website 👉 Open access: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollbook-o...

📚 Join us for the launch of the book: Care Poverty and Unmet Needs: Inequalities in Theory and Practice by Teppo Kröger, Nicola Brimblecombe, Ricardo Rodrigues & Kirstein Rummery 🗓️ 10 Sept 2025 | 15:00–16:30 CET 🔗 Last chance to register here swanseauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Thank you Helsinki. It was a great moment sharing ideas to solve some some major issues facing humanity across the globe #TCC2025

#TCC2025 @tcaren.bsky.social

What a great way to close this vibrant conference with a warm thank to the organisers! Thank you all for your participation, and see you in Taipei!

We held our Members’ Panel meeting at #TCC2025. The Members’ Panel is the space where TCN members can organise and promote activities. To join as a coordinator or propose new initiatives, contact the Members’ Panel coordinators, Prof. Con Wright and Prof. Read. www.transforming-care.net/chairs/

Final day at the Transforming Care Conference #tcc2025 in Heldinki. Oral presentation for our new study about live-in care for people with dementia #LIVE-DEM went wonderfully yesterday 🎉 @giam-uwl.bsky.social

We hope you’ve enjoyed the Transforming Care conference! @tcaren.bsky.social‬ Sign up to our Health & Social Care mailing list and receive 25% off ALL books! buff.ly/1MEi2TV

Our final #TCC2025 keynote, delivered by Prof. Håkan Jönson and Prof. Tove Harnett, guides us to escape “cognitive traps” and rethink how we view older people and their rights through a “disability lens”. They frame older care receivers as rights-holders, not just collaborators in care systems.

Enjoying the Digital technology and care: resources, rights and risks panel @tcaren.bsky.social

We’re starting the final day of #TCC2025 with 9 panels and 43 presentations on the dark side of care, inequalities, life-course analysis, participatory rights, care responsibilities, Global South perspectives, digital technology, and gender and new care futures. A powerful closing day ahead!

Day 2 at #tcc2025 💡 Care is never neutral — it’s relational, emotional, political. Tom Shakespeare: rights aren’t enough. Care is mutual & affective. Innovation = cuts? Integration = bureaucracy? Digital care = still emotional labor? We need to reimagine care. More thoughts in my LinkedIn.

🔔 New book! Based on a study covering 15 European countries, our book analyses the preparedness, structural weaknesses of long-term care homes exacerbated by the crisis and the deficient coordination between the health and caring sectors policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/long-term-ca...

We are excited to start the activities of the @goltc.bsky.social interest group on Climate change and Long-Term Care with a Thematic Panel at the excellent @tcaren.bsky.social conference in Helsinki, you can join the group by becoming a member of GOLTC goltc.org/add-new-expe... #TCC2025

Francesca Ribenfors from @learningmet.bsky.social talking about #MyMedicationMyMentalHealth led by @suecaton.bsky.social #TCC2025

Are you at the Transforming Care conference this week? Visit the Policy Press stand to see our Transforming Care book series. @tcaren.bsky.social‬ You can also submit a proposal to the series here. buff.ly/V7FV7pD

@tomshakespeare.bsky.social #keynote "If we really thought disabled people were people, we would organise the world very differently." #TCC2025

So great to have @tomshakespeare.bsky.social as keynote speaker. He reminds us one key aim as social care researchers: to foster ideas that shift from medical to social models to better understand and shape policies on dependency — through complexity, materiality and relationality. #TCC2025

Great discussions with Annie Dussuet at the Transforming Care Conference in Finland about "autonomy" vs. the "independence" promoted by digital platforms @tcaren.bsky.social

So interesting to hear about the IPSA project #AgingInPlace #Disability #TCC2025 www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/brows...

#TCC2025 fascinating research from Rachel Crossdale #archives #carers @sheffielduni.bsky.social

We kicked off day 2 of #TCC2025 with 10 thematic panels and 50 presentations this morning — covering work, inequalities, family policy, ethics, service pathways, institutional interplays, critical takes on innovation, rights-based approaches to dementia, childcare, and more!

To sum up the first day of #tcc2025. Care work – whether AI in nursing homes, family caregiving, or emotional labor – needs visibility, support & ethical attention. Not just tech, but real human understanding for those doing this heavy, often unseen work.

Depressing to hear the lack of planning for older people with learning disabilities being repeated in Finland too. "People with intellectual disabilities are not seen as 'equal citizens' in health and aging services" #TCC2025 @sarasiobhan.bsky.social

My favourite quote while attending Transforming Care Conference's panel on Technology-assisted Care: "The deeper problem lies in the absence of experienced, stable staff. Digital technologies cannot solve this fundamental issue" - talk by Erika Takahashi #TCC2025 #ageing #technology #gerontology

Beautiful to gather under the roof of the charming and historic Helsinki City Hall for a warm and well-deserved reception — a moment of pause after all the hard work by attendees. Thank you to everyone — municipality, staff and volunteers — who make events like this possible. #TCC2025

Care—be it at the beginning of life, in old age, or during moments of vulnerability in between—is not peripheral to society. And it’s delivered by ppl whose work deserves value & support. Let’s reimagine it not as a burden to be managed but as a soc. infrastructure to be valued & sustained #TCC2025

Supporting choice and preference for people with intellectual disability in older age #TCC2025 @sarasiobhan.bsky.social

Transforming Care Conference #TCC2025 in Helsinki. Where the sun never goes down...Enjoying 3 days of talks, discussions and networking with care researchers from multiple disciplines, countries and methodological backgrounds #care #longtermcare #childcare www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

Really interesting session #TCC2025 on care and technology. As new technologies are shaping the ways in which care is conceptualised and practiced ...

Please visit our stand at the #TCC2025 and win some prizes 😀

Hei! I’m in Helsinki at #TCC2025 with @qar-netcare.bsky.social - Promoting the network and our future events! Find the stand in the lunch hall and come for a chat! @mariapetrillo.bsky.social @j-zhang.bsky.social @centreforcare.bsky.social

Looking forward to presenting work on AI and care for older people on Friday in beautiful Helsinki at the Transforming Care Conference @tcaren.bsky.social

Prof. @margaleon.bsky.social opens with her keynote “Children’s Rights and Welfare Paradigms?” She highlights progress in childcare policy, but it’s an unfinished agenda. We need to ensure universal rights, tackle inequalities, and treat children’s rights as democratic entitlements. #TCC2025

The wonderful @margaleon.bsky.social delivering the opening keynote at the @tcaren.bsky.social conference in Helsinki in the rather magnificent great hall of Helsinki University #TCC2025

We begin with a warm welcome from the TCN and the conference chairs. Amazing — we are 404 attendees at #TCC2025 in Helsinki! And the network keeps growing: today we are 850 members. Want to join us? It’s free — sign up here: www.transforming-care.net/membership/

The Transforming Care Conference 2025 starts today! This year’s theme, Social and Human Rights in Care, explores how social care intersects with human rights in childcare, disability and long-term care. We open it with a keynote by @margaleon.bsky.social : Children’s Rights and Welfare Paradigms?

The new Transforming Care Network Newsletter is out!☀️ You can find new networking activities: upcoming TCC conference, new Transforming Care Series books (with member discounts), Scientific Corner (with Prof. Pfau-Effinger), and more Don't miss it and join us! www.transforming-care.net/membership/

Time’s running out to submit your abstract for the Transforming Care Conference in Helsinki! 🗓️ Deadline: January 30th (2 days left!) 👉 Don’t miss this chance to share your research with experts in social care and beyond! www.transforming-care.net/2025-transfo...

The Winter TCN Newsletter is out! www.transforming-care.net/the-first-tc... You can already access it in the mailbox or webpage. It includes all the network's relevant news (and more!) Remember to become a member to receive our newsletter and updates: www.transforming-care.net/membership/