JPI MYBL: Labour force shortages within the long-term care sector 2024

About the call

Focus areas

Proposals must address all three research topics outlined below, paying particular attention to cross-cutting issues of gender, ethnicity and social inclusion:

1. The working situation is a fundamental aspect of attracting and retaining workers caring for older people. It includes factors such as the supply of care workers and relevant healthcare professionals, wages, conditions, employment contracts, continuity of staffing and turnover, leadership and training and career opportunities.
2. 
   Artificial Intelligence (AI) and associated digital technologies are widely proposed as possible ways to alleviate strains on the care work force. However, how such digital devices and infrastructures intersect with human care and thus re-constituted care practices and relations in the production of better outcomes, has remained a topic for debate. AI and associated digital technologies might also pose challenges in terms of ethical, equality and democratic aspects from both the perspective of people drawing on care and support and workers.
3. 
   Countries differ in their societal organisation of care for older people, from the importance of informal care as it relates to paid care, the interlinkage, or lack of interlinkage, between services and the amount of public spending devoted to LTC.

Funding amounts

Forte has reserved a total of SEK 9 million for 3-year project grants for the years 2025–2027.

Read more about the call on JPI MYBL:s website External link.