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National Seminar on 18th – 19th May 2016

LTOP and MOPH held the National Seminar on 18th-19th May 2016 at Richmond Hotel, Nonthaburi. Dr. Somsak, Deputy Permanent Secretary, MOPH, LTOP site members, and representatives of local government attended this seminar.

This seminar's main purpose is to share and have discussions for the national plan for Long Term Care, the reporting of LTOP model service from 6 sites, and the situations of Long Term Care at local area.

In Thailand, the policy movement for aging society is rising, such as the budget of 6 hundred million baht for supporting Long Term Care for the elderly that has been approved by the Cabinet. Participants also share the necessity for dealing with further progress of ageing and had an active discussion after each presentation.

Dr. Somsak, Deputy Permanent Secretary, MOPH

National Seminar

1st Policy Recommendation Drafting Committee Meeting

Also we held the 1st Policy Recommendation Drafting Committee Meeting on 18th May 2016. This was the first call for the drafting committee members. We discussed the schedule and outlines for making the policy recommendation. Outline agreed in this meeting is as below. Committee members will make the draft by each MOPH divisions respectively.

* 2nd Meeting will be hold on 24th June.

Outline (structure) of Policy Recommendation
(version of 18 May 2016 after the drafting committee meeting)

Section	What to be written?	What to be referred?
Background	Describe the situation of population aging and growing needs of long-term care, discuss the necessity to address this issue	Existing studies and　policy documents Discussions among drafting members Data from LTOP (incidence of long-term care needs, opportunity cost of family caregivers)
Guiding principles of long-term care	Provide guiding principles of long-term care in Thai contexts e.g. dignity of frail persons, support to family caregivers (the government is a supporter), community-based care, team approach, coordinated services by health workers/social workers/volunteers, etc. Identify gaps between the current situation and the desired future state.	Existing studies and policy documents Discussions among drafting members Data from LTOP (incidence of long-term care needs, opportunity cost of family caregivers)
Analytical framework	Present 6+1 building blocks as an analytical framework and describe how to apply to long-term care system i.e. service delivery, workforce, information, technologies, financing, leadership/governance, community participation	Existing policy documents including National Development Plan of the Thai government and Policies of relevant ministries Discussions among drafting members
Learnings from LTOP	Describe model services and systems at 6 sites as well as experiences in Japan, and analyze the learnings by using the 6+1 building blocks framework	WHO's 6 building blocks of health system
Recommendations for the long-term care service program of Thai Government	Provide recommendations for the implementation of Thai government's long-term care service program. Recommended points will be presented with respect to each of 6+1 building blocks.	Learnings from LTOP Discussions among drafting members