Thank you for taking part in the global consultation on the WHO Global Standards for Long-Term Care.
WHO is developing the first global standards for long-term care for older people, as part of the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021–2030). A draft — the consultation draft — was published on 18 May 2026. It has eight chapters, with 34 standards and 106 quality statements, and is open for comment until 30 October 2026.
Everyone is welcome to respond: older people, families and unpaid carers, care workers, care providers, governments and regulators, researchers, civil society and others — as individuals or on behalf of an organization. You do not need to have read the full draft. You can comment on the draft as a whole, on selected parts, or both.
The consultation draft, its summary and a consultation guide are available on the consultation web page:
https://www.who.int/news-room/articles-detail/call-for-public-consultation-on-global-standards-for-long-term-care
What to expect. There are no rating or scoring questions. Every question about the draft is an open question, and all of them are optional — answer the ones that matter to you and skip the rest. Only a few short questions about you are required (about 3 minutes). Most people take 10–20 minutes in total; commenting on many chapters or sharing documents takes longer. You can save your answers and finish later. You may write your answers in any WHO official language.
How your answers will be used. WHO will bring all responses together into a summary of findings, presented in aggregate and without reference to individual contributions. The technical working groups revising the standards will work from this summary. Regarding your data:
- Confidentiality: your responses will be treated with complete confidentiality and stored in line with WHO data protection policies.
- Limited access: only the WHO team responsible for this consultation will have access to individual responses.
- Exclusivity: the information you provide will not be used for any purpose other than this consultation.
- Quotations: with your permission (asked at the end of the survey), WHO may use short quotations from your written answers, without your name and identified only in a general way — for example, “unpaid carer, Brazil”.
You may also, instead or in addition, send written comments of any length in any WHO official language to ltc@who.int; organizations are encouraged to coordinate a single response. If you have technical difficulties with this survey, email ltc@who.int with the subject “LTC standards survey”.
There are 120 questions in this survey.
