Reforming long-term care in Europe
By: edited by Joan Costa-Font
Series: Broadening perspectives on social policy; Broadening perspectives on social policy
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781444338737
Subjects: Social conditions; Government policy; Long-term care; Older people
Description: "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."--

"The assistance given to older people to help with the essential activities of their daily lives is one of the key policy responsibilities undergoing an expansion of public converge. Given the extended life-spans of populations across Europe, this pertinent issue is now increasingly in the loop of political reform in all countries, including the UK, Spain, Germany and Sweden. This book offers the most up-to-date analysis of the features and developments of long-term care in Europe. It focuses on countries that have been comparatively less studied, for example, Eastern Europe, Italy, France and Spain, and makes comparisons with reform practices in Germany, the UK, Netherlands and Sweden. Each chapter focuses on a key question in the policy debate in each country and offers a description and analysis of each system"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Editorial Introduction (Joan Costa-Font, London School of Economics and Political Science).; title: 1. Long-term Care: A Suitable Case for Social Insurance (Nicholas Barr, London School of Economics and Political Science).; title: 2. The Long Road to Universalism? Recent Developments in the Financing of Long-term Care in England (Adelina Comas-Herrera, Raphael Wittenberg and Linda Pickard, all London School of Economics and Political Science).; title: 3. Reforming Long-term Care Policy in France: Private-Public Complementarities (Blanche Le Bihan and Claude Martin, both School of Studies in Public Health (EHESP), Rennes, France).; title: 4. Sustainability of Comprehensive Universal Long-term Care Insurance in the Netherlands (Frederik T. Schut, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Bernard van den Berg, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands).; title: 5. Social Insurance for Long-Term Care: An Evaluation of the German Model (Heinz Rothgang, University of Bremen, Germany).; title: 6. Long-term Care in Central and South-Eastern Europe: Challenges and Perspectives in Addressing a 'New' Social Risk (August Österle, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria).; title: 7. Devolution, Diversity and Welfare Reform: Long-term Care in the 'Latin Rim' (Joan Costa-Font, London School of Economics and Political Science).; title: 8. One Uniform Welfare State or a Multitude of Welfare Municipalities? The Evolution of Local Variation in Swedish Elder Care (Gun-Britt Trydegård and Mats Thorslund, both Stockholm University, Sweden).; title: 9. Reforming Long-term Care in Portugal: Dealing with the Multidimensional Character of Quality (Silvina Santana, University of Aveiro, Portugal).; title: Index.