Overview

""Providing Integrated Health and Social Care for Older Persons (PROCARE)"" is a project in the EU Fifth Framework Programme (Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources, Area ""The Ageing Population and Disabilities"") which aims to help in defining the new concept of an integrated health and social care for older persons in need of care by comparing and evaluating different modes of care delivery. Following the publication of a first book published in 2004, this volume draws on the achievements of the second project phase (2003-2004) that consisted of empirical fieldwork and a cross-national analysis of model ways of working in the nine participating EU Member States (Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK). The book underpins the more general national and European considerations gathered in the project with empirical findings analyzed from a trans-national perspective. Its chapters have been written by ""internationally mixed"" teams and will thus contribute to the development of a truly European perspective, providing: a unique general overview of European approaches to integrated social and health care services and policies that are to be developed to face the growing need for care in ageing societies; indicators for successful approaches and models of good practice to overcome the ""social-health-divide""; better understanding of the meaning of integrated services and the coordination of social and health systems in the different countries; facts and figures about coordination at the interface between health and social care for older persons; problems and solutions (""lessons to learn"") concerning regulation and coordination.

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Author:   Jenny Billings ,  Kai Leichsenring
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Ashgate Publishing Limited
ISBN:  

9780754644736

ISBN 10:   0754644731
Pages:   500
Publication Date:   28 January 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Introduction; The European context of PROCARE, Kai Leichsenring, Aris Sissouras; General framework conditions and financing of integrated care in Europe, Margit Grilz-Wolf, Gunter Roth; Methods, Jenny Billings; Definition and perception from stakeholders' views, Jenny Billings, Maili Malin; The access to integrated care provision, Klaas Gorter, Francesca Ceruzzi, Laura Alipranti; Professional cultures and joint working, Kirstie Coxon, Dominique Argoud, Thomas Clausen; Key innovations in integrated health and social care models, Giorgia Nesti Natalia Alba, Steen Bengtsson; The role of the family in integrated care, Aphrodite Teperoglou Monika Reichert, Andrea Kuhlmann, Marie-Jo Guisset, Cecile Chartreau, Alain Villez; The outcomes and benefits of integrated care - in search for the point of view of service users and carers, Riitta Haverinen, Nasrin Tabibian; Working conditions in integrated care settings, Eftichia Teperoglou, Sirpa Anderson, Charlotte Strumpel; Conclusions and recommendations, Jenny Billings, Kai Leichsenring, Nasrin Tabibian.

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Author Information

Jenny Billings is from the Centre for Health Service Studies (CHSS) at the University of Kent, UK. Kai Leichsenring is a Research Associate at the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Austria.

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