The report was prepared in the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS), under the supervision of Stefano Scarpetta (Director of ELS), Mark Pearson (Deputy Director of ELS) and Francesca Colombo (Head of Health Division). It was written by the long-term care team, with inputs from Virginija Poškutė (external consultant) for questionnaires and focus groups.
The Project was carried out with funding from the European Union via the Structural Reform Support Programme and in co‑operation with the European Commission’s Directorate‑General for Structural Reform Support (DG REFORM). Co‑operation with Danguolė Jankauskienė, Marius Čiurlionis, and Violeta Toleikienė from the Government of Lithuania, and Elisa Gómez Alemán from the European Commission’s DG REFORM has been instrumental for the project.
The project benefited from input from a range of stakeholders: data and policy questionnaires distributed to the 60 municipalities, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Social Security and Labour and the National Health Insurance Fund; individual interviews with Lithuanian stakeholders, interviews with international experts; focus groups with municipalities, providers, workers and informal carers; two stakeholder consultations with the Government of Lithuania (Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Social Security and Labour) and the National Health Insurance Fund among other stakeholders; and a workshop with a range of Lithuanian stakeholders and international experts.
The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of OECD member countries or the European Union.