1st Multi-venue Conference on Social Services, Care and the Community: The Care We Want. System for Promoting Independence and Supporting Dependency: Horizon 2050

System for Promoting Independence and Supporting Those in Need of Care: Horizon 2050

At this second session of the multi-venue conference, we will focus on the demographic and social trends that are reshaping long-term care and on the challenges posed by ensuring its sustainability: how to adapt a system historically reliant on the family to one based on high-quality, personalised and local care and support, connected to community life, whilst demographic changes and shifts in household composition confront us with a significant increase in demand. The meeting will address the key drivers of this transition: funding, quality, innovation and technology, and the recruitment and retention of care workers, amongst other key issues such as ensuring more years of independent living with well-being and inclusive communities. These reflections will enable us to draw up a roadmap for moving towards a sustainable (in economic, social and ethical terms) and person-centred system.

All of this will be organised around three key challenges:

• Challenge A. Prevention: How can we maintain wellbeing and independence in more inclusive environments?

• Challenge B. Funding and quality: How can we secure greater investment and resources for long-term care, whilst guaranteeing quality?

• Challenge C. Attracting and retaining professionals: How do we manage to attract and retain enough professionals in the care sector?

We are participating in:

Parallel Session 5 (Challenge B): Assessing what matters: towards the construction of a new quality framework for the SAAD

12:15 - 13:30

ROOM 2

• JOSEBA ZALAKAIN HERNÁNDEZ | CO-DIRECTOR OF THE SOCIAL INFORMATION AND RESEARCH SERVICE (SIIS) at the EGUIA CAREAGA FOUNDATION
• RAFAEL DE ASÍS ROIG | PROFESSOR at CARLOS III UNIVERSITY, MADRID
• ELIA GÓMEZ CASTRO | CONSULTANT AT THE SOCIAL INFORMATION AND RESEARCH SERVICE (SIIS) AT THE EGUIA CAREAGA FOUNDATION
• MARÍA FRANCESCA CERDÓ I PASQUAL | HEAD OF IMPROVEMENT AND LEARNING AT MATIA

Parallel Session 6 (innovation): The potential of social innovation for sustainability in the field of CLDs.

12:15 - 13:30

AUDITORIUM

• ERKUDEN ALDAZ ARROYO | DIRECTOR OF MATIA INSTITUTE at MATIA
• FERNANDO MÉRIDA MARTÍN | DEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL FOR TRANSFER at the MINISTRY OF SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND UNIVERSITIES
• ANA PERANDRÉS GÓMEZ | HEAD OF THE TRANSFORMATIONAL KNOWLEDGE DEPARTMENT at MACROSAD