Overview

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.

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Author:   Bent Greve (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781472483928

ISBN 10:   1472483928
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   29 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of contributors Foreword Chapter 1. Long-term care: what is it about? (Bent Greve) Chapter 2. Long-term care for the elderly in Hungary (Róbert I. Gál) Chapter 3. Long-term care: challenges and perspective (Virginija Poškutė) Chapter 4. Long-term care for the elderly in Poland (Zofia Czepulis-Rutkowska) Chapter 5. Long-term care in Portugal: quasi-privatization of a dual system of care (Alexandra Lopes) Chapter 6. Long-term care in Italy (Emmanuele Pavolini, Costanzo Ranci and Giovanni Lamura) Chapter 7. Greece: forced transformation in a deep crisis (Platon Tinios) Chapter 8. Long-term care and austerity in the UK: a growing crisis (Caroline Glendinning) Chapter 9. Paradoxical decisions in German long-term care: expansion of benefits as cost-containment strategy (Margitta Mätzke and Tobias Wiß) Chapter 10. Long-term care expenditures in Finland (Ismo Linnosmaa and Lien Nguyen) Chapter 11. Long-term care in Denmark: with an eye to the other Nordic welfare states (Bent Greve) Chapter 12. Some concluding reflections (Bent Greve) Index

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Bent Greve is Professor of Welfare State Analysis at the Department of Society and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark.

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