Integrated care is of particular relevance to the delivery of long-term care services for older people in order to optimally respond to their often highly diversified health and social care needs. This study set out to develop a comprehensive overview of long-term care in Portugal from a services delivery perspective that dually captures health and social services. Stefania Ilinca and Ricardo Rodrigues contributed to this study by intensive desk research and during a fact-finding mission, Kai Leichsenring contributed to the conceptual framework together with colleagues from WHO Europe who guided, edited and finalised drafts and results in the context of the joint project ‘A new framework for integrating health services delivery and long-term care’.
