“We are not plagued by a care crisis limited to the health and social services sector, but we as a society are in the midst of a care transition.”
Please join Capita and Demos Helsinki for a virtual roundtable about the future of care on October 23, 2024, from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET/ 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. CET.
We are delighted that Abby Jitendra, Principal Policy Adviser from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Gala Diaz Langou, Executive Director of CIPPEC, and Amar Nijhawan, Senior Program Officer at the IDRC, will join us to respond to the presentation and provide “sparks” for our group discussion.
Care is central to the human experience. Whether it’s informal, unpaid support between loved ones or more formal caregiving roles, every act of care is personal, direct, and relational. The headlines tell us that care is in “crisis,” but this misses the deeper issue. Focusing solely on increasing resources for care services doesn’t fully address how our need for care has evolved or how we can effectively meet that need.
According to a forthcoming vision paper by our colleagues at the think tank Demos Helsinki, the dominant paradigm for imagining a way out of the crisis—particularly in high-income countries—focuses on trying to return to normal by improving systems, allocating more resources, and enhancing skills. These steps are surely needed. However, care is not just a matter of healthcare services or budgetary concerns. Ultimately, how we allocate resources is determined by our vision for the future of care, and that requires wrestling with a broader, long-term transformation, much like the shifts we’ve seen in digitalization and decarbonization. Every aspect of our society, from urban policy to work-life balance, affects how we provide and receive care.
In this conversation, we will expand our understanding of the resources “beyond the budget sheet” — time, relationships, responsibilities, individual strengths, and collective tools and institutions. What is needed to care for one another and build a global, socially backed vision of care that is fit for purpose in the new landscape of human vulnerability?
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