Reforming long-term care in Europe [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Joan Costa-Font

• Pubblicazione: West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (184 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.16094
• Soggetto topico: Older people - Long-term care - Government policy - Europe; Older people - Europe - Social conditions; Older people - Government policy - Europe
• Classificazione: SOC026000
• Altri autori: Costa-i-FontJoan
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: Editorial Introduction (Joan Costa-Font, London School of Economics and Political Science). -- 1. Long-term Care: A Suitable Case for Social Insurance (Nicholas Barr, London School of Economics and Political Science). -- 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). -- 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). -- 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). -- 5. Social Insurance for Long-Term Care: An Evaluation of the German Model (Heinz Rothgang, University of Bremen, Germany). -- 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). -- 7. Devolution, Diversity and Welfare Reform: Long-term Care in the 'Latin Rim' (Joan Costa-Font, London School of Economics and Political Science). -- 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). -- 9. Reforming Long-term Care in Portugal: Dealing with the Multidimensional Character of Quality (Silvina Santana, University of Aveiro, Portugal). -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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."--
• Titolo autorizzato: Reforming long-term care in Europe
• ISBN: 1-283-25850-1; 9786613258502; 1-4443-9555-6; 1-4443-3873-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910830255703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Broadening perspectives on social policy ; ; 6.