Articles

Person-Centred Care in Türkiye: Choice, Autonomy and Individualised Support
Person-centred care in Türkiye depends on moving beyond service eligibility to understand what older and disabled people want their support to achieve. This article examines how individual care planning, autonomy, family involvement, rights, workforce practice and coordinated services can translate person-centred principles into everyday care, while exploring the operational changes needed to make choice meaningful across home, community, health and residential settings. Read more...
Safeguarding Older and Disabled People in Türkiye: Prevention, Identification and Accountability
Safeguarding older and disabled people in Türkiye extends across families, homes, residential services, health care, disability support, social services and the justice system. This article examines how abuse, neglect, exploitation and unsafe care can be prevented and identified, how concerns move between services, and why stronger safeguarding depends on accessible reporting, skilled professional judgement, interagency coordination, rights-based practice and accountability that follows concerns through to resolution. Read more...
Quality Assurance in Türkiye’s Long-Term Care System: Standards, Oversight and Continuous Improvement
Quality assurance in Türkiye’s long-term care system spans residential care, home health, disability support, public and private provision, and services governed through different institutional frameworks. This article examines how standards, inspection, workforce competence, evidence, complaints and outcome monitoring can connect more effectively, and why Türkiye’s next stage of long-term-care development requires quality assurance to move beyond minimum compliance towards continuous learning and improvement. Read more...
Supporting Türkiye’s Informal Care Workforce: Families, Women and the Hidden Care Economy
Millions of hours of care in Türkiye are provided within families rather than through the formal care workforce, with women carrying a disproportionate share of that responsibility. This article examines unpaid and family caregiving as part of Türkiye’s care economy, exploring employment, income, social protection, Home Care Assistance, respite, skills and gender inequality, and considers how future long-term-care reform can support families without making them the default substitute for formal services. Read more...
Long-Term Care Workforce Development in Türkiye: Capacity, Skills and Professionalisation
Türkiye’s ability to expand long-term care will depend not only on funding and service capacity but on whether it can build a skilled, sustainable and increasingly professional care workforce. This article examines care-worker roles, multidisciplinary practice, competence, training, supervision and workforce planning, and considers how Türkiye can strengthen formal care careers while responding to rising demand across residential, home and community services. Read more...
Hospital Discharge and Transitional Care in Türkiye: Preventing Gaps Between Health and Social Support
Leaving hospital can be one of the most vulnerable points in an older person’s care pathway, particularly when recovery depends on medication, rehabilitation, family assistance and support at home. This article examines hospital discharge and transitional care in Türkiye, including the role of home health, primary care and social support, and considers how stronger planning, information exchange and follow-up can protect recovery, independence and continuity. Read more...
Primary Care and Long-Term Care in Türkiye: Strengthening Community-Level Coordination
Türkiye’s family medicine system gives primary care an important position from which to identify functional decline, chronic disease, caregiver pressure and emerging long-term support needs before they become crises. This article examines how Family Health Centres, Healthy Life Centres and wider community services can strengthen continuity for older people while connecting clinical care more effectively with rehabilitation, home-based support, social services and family caregiving. Read more...
Integrated Health and Social Care in Türkiye: Connecting Hospitals, Primary Care and Long-Term Support
Türkiye’s health and social care systems increasingly serve the same older and disabled people, yet responsibility remains distributed across ministries, health services, social support, municipalities and families. This article examines how stronger integration could connect hospitals, primary care, home health and long-term support, turning institutional coordination into clearer pathways, shared accountability and more continuous person-centred care. Read more...
Supporting People with Dementia in Türkiye: Developing Coordinated Long-Term Care Pathways
As Türkiye’s population ages, dementia will increasingly test the connections between primary care, specialist health services, families, home support, municipalities and residential care. This article examines how stronger dementia pathways could connect recognition and diagnosis with person-centred long-term support, reduce avoidable crises, strengthen family caregiving and create clearer accountability for continuity, quality and outcomes across different stages of cognitive decline. Read more...
Disability Services in Türkiye: Rights, Inclusion and Community-Based Support
Türkiye’s disability policy increasingly frames support through rights, accessibility, participation and the ability to live within the community rather than through care alone. This article examines how legislation, social services, home-care assistance, community support, accessibility and family involvement interact in practice, and what stronger person-centred pathways could mean for independence, inclusion, quality and accountability across Türkiye. Read more...
Healthy Ageing in Türkiye: Prevention, Independence and Reducing Future Care Dependency
Türkiye’s rapid demographic transition makes healthy ageing a care-system strategy as well as a public-health priority. This article examines how prevention, primary care, functional ability, physical activity, nutrition, social participation, accessible environments and earlier intervention can help older people remain independent, while exploring the governance, workforce and evidence needed to turn Türkiye’s active and healthy ageing ambitions into consistent local practice. Read more...
Residential and Institutional Care in Türkiye: Quality, Capacity and Changing Expectations
Residential care remains an essential part of Türkiye’s developing long-term care system, but expectations are changing as the population ages and residents present with more diverse needs. This article examines public and private provision, the 2026 regulatory framework, capacity, eligibility, workforce, individual care planning, dementia and higher-dependency support, and how Türkiye can strengthen quality while connecting residential services more effectively with families, health care and community life. Read more...