Long-term care reforms in OECD countries successes and failures

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 increm...

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Otros Autores: Fernández, José, 1971- editor (editor), Gori, Cristiano, editor, Wittenberg, Raphael, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press 2016.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction / José-Luis Fernández and Cristiano Gori
  • Part 1: Funding
  • 2. Demand for care and support for older people / Raphael Wittenberg
  • 3. The long-term care financing problem / José-Luis Fernández and Pamela Nadash
  • Part 2: Models of care
  • 4.How different countries allocate long-term care resources to users: a comparative snapshot / John Campbell, Naoki Ikegami, Cristiano Gori, Francesco Barbabella, Rafal Chomik, Francesco d'Amico, Holly Holder, Tomoaki Ishibashi, Lennarth Johansson, Harriet Komisar, Magnus Ring and Hildegard Theobald
  • 5. How different countries allocate long-term care resources to older users: changes over time / Cristiano Gori, Francesco Barbabella, John Campbell, Naoki Ikegami, Francesco d'Amico, Holly Holder, Tomoaki Ishibashi, Lennarth Johansson, Harriet Komisar and Hildegard Theobald
  • 6. Commissioning long-term care services / Joanna Marczak and Gerald Wistow
  • 7. Cash-for-care benefits / Barbara Da Roit, Blanche Le Bihan and August Österle
  • 8. Policy instruments to promote good quality long-term care services / Juliette Malley, Birgit Trukeschitz and Lisa Trigg
  • Part 3: Carers
  • 9. Developing a skilled long-term care workforce / Francesca Colombo and Tim Muir
  • 10. Policies to support informal care / Ulrike Schneider, Gerdt Sundström, Lennarth Johannson and María A. Tortosa
  • Part 4: Institutional actors
  • 11. The relationship between social and health services in care for older people / Laurel L. Hixon
  • 12. Multilevel governance and its effects on long-term care support / Hildegard Theobald and Elizabeth Ozanne
  • 13. Conclusions: Looking ahead in long-term care policies / Cristiano Gori, José-Luis Fernández and Raphael Wittenberg.