🇸🇮 Slovenia Ageing, Long-Term Care & Community Support Knowledge Hub

Slovenia is entering an important period of change in long-term care as population ageing, changing family structures, workforce pressures and the implementation of major care reforms increase the importance of sustainable support for older people and others with long-term needs. Its evolving care system brings together national government, municipalities, healthcare and social services, long-term care providers, residential institutions, community organisations, families and informal carers. The first collection within this Knowledge Hub explores Slovenia Ageing, Long-Term Care & Community Support, with additional specialist collections being introduced as the library expands.

Slovenia’s long-term care system reflects its own demographic, economic, geographic and institutional context. Recent reform is reshaping how long-term care is financed, assessed and delivered, while increasing the importance of home-based support, formal recognition of family caregiving, e-care and stronger coordination across services. Many of the underlying pressures are also shared internationally. These include enabling people to remain at home, supporting family carers, developing sustainable community services, addressing workforce shortages, strengthening connections between health and social care, ensuring equitable access, improving quality and accountability, and making effective use of digital and assistive technologies. Slovenia therefore provides valuable learning for providers, municipalities, policymakers, researchers and system leaders internationally.

This Knowledge Hub examines Slovenia’s approach to population ageing, long-term care reform, financing and insurance, eligibility and assessment, home-based support, institutional care, cash benefits, family caregiving, ageing in place, municipal responsibilities, workforce development, skills and working conditions, quality assurance, safeguarding, person-centred care, outcomes, health and social care integration, hospital-to-community transitions, rehabilitation and reablement, dementia, disability, mental health in older age, e-care, digitalisation, data, rural access, prevention, healthy ageing and long-term system sustainability. It forms part of the interconnected international knowledge library across Impact Guru and Impact Insights Hub, supporting comparison between different care systems without assuming that one national model can simply be transferred to another.

As the collection develops, articles will explore how national reform, long-term care insurance, municipalities, healthcare and social services, providers, families, communities, technology and evidence interact. Particular attention will be given to the implementation of Slovenia’s changing long-term care settlement, the balance between formal and family support, ageing at home, workforce capacity, health and social care integration, quality and accountability, rural accessibility, hospital-to-community transitions, dementia support, prevention, e-care and digital transformation. The aim is to create a practical, evidence-informed resource for understanding both Slovenia’s evolving care system and the wider lessons emerging from its experience.

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