书目名称 | Reforms in Long-Term Care Policies in Europe | 副标题 | Investigating Instit | 编辑 | Costanzo Ranci,Emmanuele Pavolini | 视频video | | 概述 | Combines case studies from different schools of welfare thought in Europe (the Anglo-Saxon model, the Scandinavian model, the Continental model, and the Southern European model).Includes a full descri | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .Over the last two decades, many changes have happened to the social welfare policies of various industrial countries. Citizens have seen their pensions, unemployment benefits, and general healthcare policies shrink as “belt tightening” measures are enforced. But in contrast, long-term care has seen a general growth in public financing, an expansion of beneficiaries, and, more generally, an attempt to define larger social responsibilities and related social rights. .The aim of this book is to describe and interpret the changes introduced in long-term care policies in Western Europe. The volume argues that recent reforms have brought about an increasing convergence in LTC policies. Most of the new programs have developed a new general approach to long-term care, based on a better integration of social care and health care. .The book explores increasing public support given to family care work (in the past, the family would take care of the elderly or infirm) and increasing growth and recognition of a extended social care market (by which care has shifted from a moral obligation based on family reciprocity to a paid, professional activity). A new social care arrangement has therefo | 出版日期 | Book 2013 | 关键词 | European social policy for long term care; innovation in welfare and health care policy in Europe; lon | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4502-9 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4899-8918-5 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4614-4502-9 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 |
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