Equity Choices and Long-Term Care Policies in Europe (Routledge Revivals)

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Long-Term Care and the Welfare State -- 2.1 The growing importance of long-term care issues -- 2.2 Defining and measuring long-term care -- 2.3 The long-term care system -- 2.4 Long-term care as a welfare state issue -- 2.5 Conclusions -- 3 Equity and Long-Tenn Care: A Framework for Analysis -- 3.1 The basic terminology of equity -- 3.2 Studying equity in long-term care - A survey of the literature -- 3.3 The concept of 'equity choices' -- 3.4 Equity and the allocation of resources -- 3.5 Equity and the allocation of burdens -- 3.6 Conclusions -- 4 Investigating Long-Tenn Care Policies in Europe -- 4.1 Cross-country comparative analysis in long-term care -- 4.2 Objectives, regimes and choices -- 4.3 Lang-term care in Austria, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom: An overview -- 5 Equity Choices in Long-Term Care: A Comparative Perspective -- 5.1 Equity choices in the provision of long-term care -- 5.2 Equity choices in the finance of long-term care -- 5.3. Equity choices and equity objectives in European long-term care systems -- 6 Conclusions -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

• | Author: August Österle
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jan 25, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 216 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0415791464
• | ISBN-13: 9780415791465