The future of long-term care
Green Templeton has published two reports as part of its efforts to plan for its future of the Care Initiative. The Care Initiative hired Dr Caitlin Murnane as a postdoctoral researcher to conduct background research to inform the planning process using a mixed methods approach, exploring sociological, political and economic issues impacting care globally and nationally.
Long-term care challenges in the 2020s by Caitlin Murnane, January 2025
Dr Murnane reviews the literature on the key challenges and issues facing social care, discussing in particular the application of AI and other technologies, workforce shortages in care, informal care and issues facing the Global South.
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An overview of research, organisations and activities in long-term care by Caitlin Murnane and Mary Daly, February 2025
This report, co-authored by Dr Murnane and Professor Daly, identifies and discusses possible areas on which the Initiative might focus its future efforts.
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Dr Caitlin Murnane completed her DPhil in Medical Sciences at Oxford, where she is currently completing Graduate Entry Medicine. She is also lecturer of medicine at St Hugh’s College and Harris Manchester College and Junior Dean of University College.
Her interests include health inequalities, the role of invisible womxn in informal care, and social care delivery in the Global South.
Professor Mary Daly is a Governing Body Fellow of Green Templeton College and Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford.
She has published widely on social care and related issues.
The Care Initiative was set up at Green Templeton in 2013 by several college fellows led by Mary Daly. Its mission is to be a forum in Oxford that, through informed debate and research, advances and shares knowledge about the complex issues involved in the care of older persons.
The Initiative has been funded and supported by Green Templeton since its inception. Its mission is rooted in the college’s engagement with, and commitment, to human welfare as a foundational college interest and common concern. The Initiative’s membership also reflects the diverse disciplinary orientations of the college, drawing together scholars and students especially from medical sciences, social sciences, and business and management programmes at Oxford and beyond.
Funding for this research was generously provided by Care Dorset and two anonymous donors.
Principal Sir Michael Dixon said,
‘I am grateful to Governing Body Fellow Professor Mary Daly and Dr Caitlin Murnane for their work on these two reports. They will shape important thinking about how the college can best build on the successes of the Care Initiative to date.
‘Long-term care is a growing challenge internationally, and one where Green Templeton has demonstrated the value of its role as a venue for convening cross-disciplinary dialogue between researchers and practitioners. I look forward to supporting the Initiative in the next stages of its development.’
