RESISTIRE factsheet: Promoting Sustainable and Resilient Long-Term Care

The pandemic had a huge impact on people in need of long-term care (LTC) because of the reduced possibility (or even impossibility) of obtaining the amount of good-quality care they needed during the crisis. At the same time, the pandemic reminded society of the value of our health and care systems, and the essential role performed by people who work as carers, whether they are formally employed in the sector or work informally as unpaid carers. Despite this, not enough attention was paid during the pandemic to the issue of how to make LTC systems more resilient, while the negative effects of the crisis on both carers and the people being cared for are likely to persist (if not worsen) in the coming years if no action is taken.