The Social protection of the frail elderly.
Contributors: International Social Security Association.
Series: Studies and research ;; no. 28; Studies and research (International Social Security Association) ;; no. 28.
Publisher: International Social Security Association
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Geneva
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Older people -- Services for -- Government policy -- Congresses.; Social security -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ( p. [214]-249).
Reports from a conference organized by ISSA with Israel's National Insurance Institute, in Jerusalem, 3-6 April 1989.
Also available in French under title: La protection sociale des personnes âgées dépendantes.
Table of contents: title: Impact of demographic and socio-economic factors on the changing needs for services for the very old / B. Morginstin; title: Role of social security in providing social protection to the very old / B. Schulte; title: Role of social security ... in Austria / L. Scherer; title: Financing and delivering health care for the elderly / G.J. Schieber, J. Stangl, and C. McKeen Cowles; title: Role of social security ... in France / A. Rozenkier; title: Current situation and future prospects ... in Czechoslvakia / P. Visek; title: Social welfare programmes for the elderly in Argentina / R. Blanco; title: Sweden / S.E. Olsson; title: Long-term care insurance law and its implications in Homes for the Aged in Israel / E. Yakovitz, N. Shamai no Cash and care in the mixed economy of care for frail elderly people : United Kingdom / S. Baldwin; title: Strategies for addressing the needs of the very old / J. Habib, M. Cohen.