Book Description
This book offers evidence and examples of useful experiences to help policy makers, providers and experts measure and improve the quality of long-term care services.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category :
ISBN : 9264194568
This book offers evidence and examples of useful experiences to help policy makers, providers and experts measure and improve the quality of long-term care services.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 21,6 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Older people
ISBN : 9789279289446
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 2015-03-13
Category :
ISBN : 9264231722
This book examines the large and growing human and financial cost of dementia and discusses policy options for improving care, controlling costs, and facilitating research.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category :
ISBN : 9264480919
Health at a Glance provides a comprehensive set of indicators on population health and health system performance across OECD members and key emerging economies. This edition has a special focus on the health impact of COVID-19 in OECD countries, including deaths and illness caused by the virus, adverse effects on access and quality of care, and the growing burden of mental ill-health.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 2019-11-04
Category :
ISBN : 9264748075
Swiss citizens continue to enjoy high living standards on a range of dimensions. Economic growth has slowed but the healthy labour market is still supporting incomes and consumption. However, risks to the outlook are building. Monetary policy has been very accommodative but low interest rates are adding to financial risks. Fiscal policy is sound and debt low. There is scope to make greater use of available fiscal space. Adapting to population ageing is becoming pressing. This trend, along with digital transformation, will bring new opportunities for the economy and society, but challenges as well. Policies have not kept up with rising life expectancy, particularly the statutory retirement age. Updating the pension system and lowering barriers to working longer would ensure that workers continue to receive adequate incomes during retirement.
Author : Bent Greve
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 35,56 MB
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317103513
Long-term care is an increasingly important issue in many contemporary welfare states around the globe given ageing populations. This ground-breaking book provides detailed case studies of 11 EU-member states’ welfare regimes within Europe to show how welfare states organize, structures and deliver long-term care and whether there is a social investment perspective in the delivery of long-term care. This perspective is important because the effect of demographic transitions is often used as an argument for the existence of economic pressure on welfare states and a need for either direct retrenchment or attempts to reduce welfare state spending. The book’s chapters will look specifically into how different welfare states have focussed on long-term care in recent years and what type of changes have taken place with regard to ageing populations and ambitions to curb increases in public sector spending in this area. They describe the development in long-term care for the elderly after the financial crisis and also discuss the boundaries between state and civil society in the different welfare states' approaches to the delivery of care.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,74 MB
Release : 2022-09-19
Category :
ISBN : 9264980059
Sound health management and supportive policies helped Korea emerge swiftly from the pandemic. The recovery is set to continue as pandemic-era restrictions on contact-intensive services are shelved, despite the Russia-Ukraine war raising inflation and highlighting the need to increase supply chain resilience.
Author : Cristiano Gori
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,65 MB
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1447334647
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 incremental policy changes. The book brings together evidence from over 15 years of care reform to examine changes in long-term care systems occurring in OECD countries. It discusses and compares key changes in national policies and examines the main successes and failures of recent reforms. Finally, it suggests possible policy strategies for the future in the sector. With contributions from a wide range of experts across EECD countries, this book is essential reading for academics, researchers and policy-makers in the field of long-term care policy.
Author : Gema Pérez-Rojo
Publisher : ESIC
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 11,90 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8411222039
Author : Thomas Boll
Publisher : IAP
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 164113139X
This book is about caring for elderly persons in the 21th century. It shows that care has many facets and is influenced by many factors. Central topics of this book thus include the relation between the person depending on care and the care giver(s), the impacts of caregiving on the family and the larger social context, as well as socio-cultural and political aspects underlying the growing need for and the practice of formal and informal care. It is evident that care as a real-life phenomenon of our time needs the co-operation of multiple disciplines to better understand, describe, explain and modify phenomena of elder care. Such a need for cross- disciplinary research is even more urgent given the increasing population aging and the impending gaps between demand and supply of care. The present book is dedicated to this approach and provides a first substantive integration of knowledge from geropsychology, other gerosciences, and cultural psychologies by a multi-disciplinary cast of internationally renowned authors. Cultural psychology emerged as a valuable partner of the gerosciences by contributing essentially to a deeper understanding of the relevant issues. Reading of this book provides the reader—researcher or practitioner—with new insights of where the problems of advancing age take our caring tasks in our 21st century societies and it opens many new directions for further work in the field. Finally and above all, this book is also a strong plea for solidarity between generations in family and society in a rapidly changing globalized world.