Reforming Long-Term Care in Europe

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Reforming Long-Term Care in Europe

Editor(s): Joan Costa-Font

Published Online: 20 SEP 2011 09:25AM EST

Print ISBN: 9781444338737

Online ISBN: 9781444395556

DOI: 10.1002/9781444395556

Series Editor(s): Bent Greve

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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

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–v)

    2. Editorial Introduction (pages 1–2)

      Joan Costa-Font

    3. Chapter 1

      Long-Term Care: A Suitable Case for Social Insurance (pages 3–18)

      Nicholas Barr

    4. Chapter 2

      The Long Road to Universalism? Recent Developments in the Financing of Long-Term Care in England (pages 19–34)

      Adelina Comas-Herrera, Raphael Wittenberg and Linda Pickard

    5. Chapter 3

      Reforming Long-Term Care Policy in France: Private–Public Complementarities (pages 35–52)

      Blanche Le Bihan and Claude Martin

    6. Chapter 4

      Sustainability of Comprehensive Universal Long-Term Care Insurance in the Netherlands (pages 53–77)

      Frederik T. Schut and Bernard van den Berg

    7. Chapter 5

      Social Insurance for Long-Term Care: An Evaluation of the German Model (pages 78–102)

      Heinz Rothgang

    8. Chapter 6

      Long-Term Care in Central and South-Eastern Europe: Challenges and Perspectives in Addressing a ‘New’ Social Risk (pages 103–122)

      August Österle

    9. Chapter 7

      Devolution, Diversity and Welfare Reform: Long-Term Care in the ‘Latin Rim’ (pages 123–136)

      Joan Costa-Font

    10. Chapter 8

      One Uniform Welfare State or a Multitude of Welfare Municipalities? The Evolution of Local Variation in Swedish Elder Care (pages 137–152)

      Gun-Britt Trydegård and Mats Thorslund

    11. Chapter 9

      Reforming Long-Term Care in Portugal: Dealing with the Multidimensional Character of Quality (pages 153–169)

      Silvina Santana

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      Index (pages 170–176)

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