ILO Working paper 82

Long-term care in the context of population ageing: a rights-based approach to universal coverage

20 October 2022

With the acceleration of population ageing, the achieving of healthy ageing is becoming a global imperative and social protection policies and social security systems have an important role to play in this endeavour.

© GMB Akash / icddr,b 2024

Care at work

Greater investment in care could create almost 300 million jobs

07 March 2022

Plugging existing, significant, gaps in care services could generate almost 300 million jobs and create a continuum of care that would help to alleviate poverty, encourage gender equality, and support care for children and the elderly, says new ILO report released ahead of International Women’s Day.

Event

Regional e-conference “Ageing and Long-Term Care with a Focus on National Transfer Accounts”

This is the third webinar of a series of events aiming to foster exchanges and promote mutual learning among countries in the Asia Pacific region and beyond, on strategies, progress and remaining challenges on the extension of social health protection.

ILO COOP 100 Slideshow I

Cooperatives provide quality care services

22 September 2020

As part of the ILO COOP 100 photo exhibitions, the ILO is featuring the contributions of cooperatives and the wider SSE to advancing decent work and sustainable development. This series of photos feature the contribution of cooperatives and the wider SSE in providing quality care services, from childcare and eldercare to care for persons living with disability or illness.

© Dominic Chavez/World Bank. 2024

Cooperatives

Cooperatives moving into the care economy

26 October 2015

An interview with Lenore Matthew from the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit (COOP) and the Gender, Equality and Diversity Branch (GED), who presented new research showing how cooperatives are increasingly providing care for the elderly, people with disabilities and children.