Training package on long-term care in home or institutional settings in South-East Asia Region (‎Participant’s Manual)‎

Overview

Long-term care is a key component of the 10 priorities set by WHO for the Decade of Healthy Ageing. This priority will support countries to develop eff ective, sustainable and equitable systems and services to improve care for the older people with significant loss of intrinsic capacity, and to reduce the burden on caregivers. Similarly, the Regional Framework on Healthy Ageing, 2018–2022, proposed by the WHO Regional Off ice for the SEA Region also prioritizes long-term care as one of its major guiding principles.

While the issue of long-term care was previously associated with high-income/ developed countries, a rapid increase in the proportion of older people in most parts of the developing world has resulted in a situation where the need for long-term care of older people becomes a significant public health challenge. Moreover, these developing countries are experiencing increases in long-term care needs at levels of income that are far lower than what existed in the industrialized world when these needs emerged.