🇬🇭 Ghana Ageing, Long-Term Care & Community Support Knowledge Hub

Ghana is entering an increasingly important period of demographic and social change as longer lives, urbanisation, migration, changing household structures and the growing prevalence of chronic illness, disability and frailty reshape the support needs of older people. Long-term care remains strongly rooted in families, extended kinship networks, communities, faith organisations and informal caregiving, while formal home care, residential provision, healthcare, social protection and private-sector services continue to develop. Government, local institutions, communities, households, healthcare providers and an emerging formal care sector therefore all have roles in shaping how older Ghanaians receive support. The first collection within this Knowledge Hub explores Ghana Ageing, Long-Term Care & Community Support, with additional specialist collections being introduced as the library expands.

Population ageing has growing implications for Ghana’s healthcare system, social protection, housing, family life and community services. Policy development increasingly recognises healthy ageing, disability inclusion, income security and the needs of older people, while much everyday long-term support continues to depend on unpaid family and community care. Ghana therefore provides an important case study in how more organised systems of care and support can develop alongside existing family networks, healthcare reform, social protection and community-based approaches.

Many of the challenges facing Ghana have wider international relevance. These include sustaining family caregiving as households and communities change, supporting unpaid carers, reducing financial vulnerability in later life, addressing rural and urban inequalities, developing affordable home and community services, strengthening residential care, building a skilled care workforce, supporting people living with dementia and multiple long-term conditions, safeguarding older adults and improving coordination between healthcare and community support.

This Knowledge Hub examines Ghana’s approach to population ageing, ageing policy, long-term care financing, social protection, family caregiving, disability, home and community support, residential care, workforce development, dementia, mental health, healthy ageing, safeguarding, person-centred care, rural and urban inequalities, gender, digital technology, quality assurance, evidence, service integration and long-term system development. It forms part of the interconnected international knowledge library across Impact Guru and Impact Insights Hub, supporting comparison between care systems while recognising that policies and delivery models must be understood within their own social, economic, cultural and institutional contexts.

As the collection develops, articles will examine how Ghana can strengthen support without displacing the contribution of families and communities. Sustainable development will require more than expanding formal provision. It will involve prevention and healthy ageing, stronger support for unpaid carers, accessible home and community services, workforce capability, safeguarding and quality systems, sustainable financing, better evidence and meaningful participation by older people and people with disabilities in decisions affecting their lives.

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