Evaluating LTC Policies Around the World: A Virtual Special Issue Promoted by the Gateway to Global Aging Data Project

To promote the evaluation of existing long-term care (LTC) policies and the involvement of the scientific community in future LTC policymaking, the Gateway to Global Aging Data project organized a conference in November 2023. This LTC Policy Virtual Special Issue features eight papers from this conference that were invited to undergo further blind peer review prior to publication in Health Economics. This introduction to the LTC Policy Virtual Special Issue provides a summary of each article, briefly covering the research question, conceptualization of the problem, approach used, methodological challenges, key outcomes and findings, and implications for policy and future research.