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Lotte Boserup

Lotte Boserup

Denmark
Lotte Boserup is Head of Municipal Health and Care Services in Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality, Denmark, leading a team of around 600 employees providing home care, nursing, rehabilitation, and support services to approximately 2,000 citizens. She specialises in integrated, person-centred care for older adults, with a focus on leadership, interdisciplinary collaboration, quality improvement, and sustainable care services. At the conference, she will share Danish experiences of coordinated home-based care, integrated care leadership, and balancing quality, continuity, accessibility, and resource management in modern welfare services.
Marc Olivella Cirici

Marc Olivella Cirici

Catalonia

Marc Olivella is a public health officer at the Catalan Public Health Agency, within the Department of Health of the Government of Catalonia, where he coordinates the Social Prescribing Programme in Catalonia. He is also a partner in the RECETAS project on Nature‑based Social Prescribing. He holds a PhD in Public Health and is Vice‑President of the Catalan and Balearic Society of Public Health. In his presentation, he will focus on social prescribing as a way of connecting the health and social systems through the community, the role of community facilitators, and practical experiences of implementing these programmes at the local level.

Giedrė Šedbarienė

Giedrė Šedbarienė

Lithuania
Giedrė Šedbarienė is the Director of VšĮ "Namai visiems", a non-governmental organization providing social services in Šakiai district, Lithuania. The organization works in a rural context, where coordinated care cannot rely on a dense network of services, nearby institutions, or large budgets. Together with social worker Rugilė Radzevičiūtė, she will present the concrete experience of VšĮ ‘Namai visiems’ in organizing coordinated care under these conditions, focusing on the challenges created by the rural context, the need for non-standard solutions, and the importance of cooperation, flexibility, local resources, and volunteering as elements that can be meaningful and transferable to other systems, even when the context is different.
Rugilė Radzevičiūtė

Rugilė Radzevičiūtė

Lithuania
Rugilė Radzevičiūtė is a social worker at VšĮ "Namai visiems", where she focuses on providing coordinated care in the rural environment of Lithuania. Together with Giedrė Šedbarienė, she will present the organisation's experiences at the conference.
Barbora Nejedlá

Barbora Nejedlá

Czech Republic
Barbora Nejedlá's professional career is closely connected to the Sue Ryder organisation. She has served as a coordinator and evaluator of both programmes of the Abakus Foundation focused on the development of palliative care in residential services for older adults. She is currently working on several projects related to long-term and coordinated care for older adults. Together with Karolína Pechová she will present the "Long-Term Care System for Older Adults in Prague" project, supported by the 2nd Foundation, which aims to identify gaps in the current provision of long-term care services for older adults in Prague and to propose specific changes that will help ensure that by 2045, the long-term care system for older adults in Prague is well-coordinated and fair to all stakeholders involved.
Karolína Pechová

Karolína Pechová

Czech Republic
Karolína Pechová earned her Ph.D. in social work from the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University in Prague. Since 2014, she has been dedicated to promoting the development of a palliative approach and palliative care, mostly within the social services sector, and she is also involved in the development of long-term care services for older adults. She is a graduate of the Avast Foundation (later Abakus) scholarship program for palliative care. Together with Barbora Nejedlá she will present the "Long-Term Care System for Older Adults in Prague" project, supported by the 2nd Foundation, which aims to identify gaps in the current provision of long-term care services for older adults in Prague and to propose specific changes that will help ensure that by 2045, the long-term care system for older adults in Prague is well-coordinated and fair to all stakeholders involved.
Martin Žárský

Martin Žárský

Czech Republic

Martin Žárský developed a lasting relationship with social work and its power more than 30 years ago, when he had the exceptional opportunity to meet an outstanding team at the Department of Social Work at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. In his professional life, he has focused primarily on the concept of social work. His experience and encounters with other exceptionally knowledgeable people taught him that it is always better to know than to merely assume. This principle is also reflected in his view of how systems function in practice, where we frequently encounter the gap between what we know and what we presume. His presentation addresses how to build evidence-based strategies.

Alžběta Bártová

Alžběta Bártová

Czech Republic

Alžběta Bártová specializes in social gerontology, long-term care, and support for people with dementia. She earned her PhD at Charles University in the programme of Longevity Studies. She works as a researcher in the HORIZON 2020 – RECETAS project and teaches social work and gerontology at Charles University. She also trains professionals in social services, particularly in case management and support for family caregivers. In her work, she connects academic research with practice. Together with David Kocman, she will present the BUILD project, which critically examines the Czech long-term care system in a European context. Based on an analysis of 13 dimensions of integrated care, the study shows that the system is highly “hyper-fragmented,” with care coordination often relying more on individual effort and informal collaboration than on formal systemic processes.

 

David Kocman

David Kocman

Czech Republic

David Kocman studied sociology at Charles University and earned his PhD at the University of Kent. He has experience in social and healthcare services in both the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom, working in practice as well as research. He focuses on innovation, coordination, and integration of care systems. From 2019 to 2023, he served as an advisor to the Prague City Hall on social policy and healthcare. Together with Alžběta Bártová, he will present the BUILD project, which critically examines the Czech long-term care system in a European context. Based on an analysis of 13 dimensions of integrated care, the study shows that the system is highly “hyper-fragmented,” with care coordination often relying more on individual effort and informal collaboration than on formal systemic processes.

 

Robert Speychal

Robert Speychal

Czech Republic

 

 

Conference Moderator

Barbora Komberec Novosadová

Barbora Komberec Novosadová

Czech republic

Barbora Komberec Novosadová studied marketing communication, PR and semiotics. She led the transformation of the Dobrovolník.cz portal and managed corporate volunteering programmes with a focus on expert volunteering. Together with Ashoka Czech Republic, she co-founded the Impact Academy initiative, which she led until 2020. She supports non-profit organisations and donors through the development of theories of change, evaluation work, and strategies for systemic change. She also led the Ukaž změnu (Show the Change) programme, which was completed by organisations such as Nadace Via, Nadace OSF, and Rubikon Centrum. Since April 2022, she has been serving as Director of the Social Foundation Fund of the City of Prague, which operates as a philanthropic tool of the capital city providing targeted individual support to residents facing difficult life situations.