Reforms In Long Term Care Policies In Europe

Author : Costanzo Ranci
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461445027
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reforms in Long-Term Care Policies in Europe written by Costanzo Ranci and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two decades, many changes have happened to the social welfare policies of various industrial countries. Citizens have seen their pensions, unemployment benefits, and general healthcare policies shrink as “belt tightening” measures are enforced. But in contrast, long-term care has seen a general growth in public financing, an expansion of beneficiaries, and, more generally, an attempt to define larger social responsibilities and related social rights. The aim of this book is to describe and interpret the changes introduced in long-term care policies in Western Europe. The volume argues that recent reforms have brought about an increasing convergence in LTC policies. Most of the new programs have developed a new general approach to long-term care, based on a better integration of social care and health care. The book explores increasing public support given to family care work (in the past, the family would take care of the elderly or infirm) and increasing growth and recognition of a extended social care market (by which care has shifted from a moral obligation based on family reciprocity to a paid, professional activity). A new social care arrangement has therefore been developing in Western countries, based on a new mix of family obligations, market provision, and public support. In order to understand such changes, this analysis will take into account the social and economical impact of these reforms.

Author : J. Costa-Font
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230349196
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Financing Long-Term Care in Europe written by J. Costa-Font and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forecasts predict that those in need of long-term care in Europe will double in the next 50 years. This book offers a full understanding of the institutional responses and mechanisms in place to finance old age and provides analysis of demand and supply factors underpinning the development of financial instruments to cover long-term care in Europe.

Author : Joan Costa-Font
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444338730
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reforming Long-term Care in Europe written by Joan Costa-Font and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reforming Long-term Care in Europe offers the most up-to-date analysis of the features and developments of long-term care in Europe. Each chapter focuses on a key question in the policy debate in each country and offers a description and analysis of each system. Offers the very latest analysis of long-term care reform agendas in Europe Compares countries comparatively less studied with the experiences of reform in Germany, the UK, Netherlands and Sweden Each chapter focuses on a key question in the policy debate in each country and portrays a description and analysis of each system Contributions from a wide range of European scholars for an exceptionally broad perspective

Author : Gori, Cristiano
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447334647
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Long-term care reforms in OECD countries written by Gori, Cristiano and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1990s, long-term care policies have undergone significant transformations across OECD countries. In some countries these changes have responded to the introduction of major policy reforms while in others, significant transformations have come about through the accumulation of incremental policy changes. The book brings together evidence from over 15 years of care reform to examine changes in long-term care systems occurring in OECD countries. It discusses and compares key changes in national policies and examines the main successes and failures of recent reforms. Finally, it suggests possible policy strategies for the future in the sector. With contributions from a wide range of experts across EECD countries, this book is essential reading for academics, researchers and policy-makers in the field of long-term care policy.

Author : Axel Börsch-Supan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110444410
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ageing in Europe - Supporting Policies for an Inclusive Society written by Axel Börsch-Supan and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHARE is an international survey designed to answer the societal challenges that face us due to rapid population ageing. How do we Europeans age? How will we do economically, socially and healthwise? How are these domains interrelated? The authors of this multidisciplinary book have taken a further big step towards answering these questions based on the recent SHARE data in order to support policies for an inclusive society.

Author : Bent Greve
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317103505
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Long-term Care for the Elderly in Europe written by Bent Greve and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-term care is an increasingly important issue in many contemporary welfare states around the globe given ageing populations. This ground-breaking book provides detailed case studies of 11 EU-member states’ welfare regimes within Europe to show how welfare states organize, structures and deliver long-term care and whether there is a social investment perspective in the delivery of long-term care. This perspective is important because the effect of demographic transitions is often used as an argument for the existence of economic pressure on welfare states and a need for either direct retrenchment or attempts to reduce welfare state spending. The book’s chapters will look specifically into how different welfare states have focussed on long-term care in recent years and what type of changes have taken place with regard to ageing populations and ambitions to curb increases in public sector spending in this area. They describe the development in long-term care for the elderly after the financial crisis and also discuss the boundaries between state and civil society in the different welfare states' approaches to the delivery of care.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 926401585X
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The OECD Health Project Long-term Care for Older People written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reports on the latest trends in long-term care policies in nineteen OECD countries and studies lessons learned from countries that undertook major reforms over the past decade.

Author : August Oesterle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351815180
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Equity Choices and Long-Term Care Policies in Europe written by August Oesterle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001: Employing an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to equity in long-term care, this book addresses the fact that demographic changes leading to ageing populations, financial pressures and changes in traditional support systems have brought long-term care and the redesign of care systems to the top of the European social policy agenda. Despite the importance of this issue, however, the question of equity in long-term care has until now received relatively little attention in social policy research. Rather than focusing on theories of social justice or the analysis of specific interpretations of equity, this book develops key dimensions of equity choices in a framework for systematic comparative analysis. This tool is then used to investigate long-term care policies in Europe, exploring equity choices in both the provision and the finance of long-term care. These choices are discussed comparatively with regard to the implications for the various actors and are also contrasted with basic welfare state objectives. This book represents an important addition to comparative research into several key areas of welfare and welfare state design. It explores the division of responsibilities in long-term care systems between the public and private and formal and informal sectors, the relationships between different welfare state objectives, the different types of welfare state intervention, and the principles and choices surrounding the allocation of resources and burdens.

Author : Ulrich Becker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319700812
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Long-Term Care in Europe written by Ulrich Becker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview on the long-term care systems in 12 EU member states and Norway. Focusing on the legal background and its main principles, it includes a comparative analysis which highlights the principal dissimilarities between European long term care benefits, but at the same time also a variety of features in common. It also discusses the increasingly transnational dimension of long-term as a result of migrants returning to their country of origin in old age, and the still-unsolved legal problem of entitlement to long-term care benefits in another EU-member state.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Health
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Financing of Long-term Care written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: