Bent Greve - Long-term Care for the Elderly in Europe

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 from different welfare regimes within Europe to show how welfare states organize, structure 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 books chapters will look specifically into how different welfare states have focussed on long-term care in recent years and what types 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.

Bent Greve is Professor of Welfare State Analysis at the Department of Society and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark.

This series publishes high-quality research monographs and edited books that focus on development, change in provision and/or delivery of welfare with a primary focus on developed welfare states. The books provide overviews of themes such as pensions, social services, unemployment and housing, as well as in-depth analyses of change and impact on a micro level. The impact and influence of supranational institutions on welfare state developments are studied, as are the methodologies used to analyse the ongoing transformations of welfare states.

1The Transformation of the Social Right to Healthcare

Evidence from England and Germany

Katharina Bhm

2Welfare State Transformation in the Yugoslav Successor States

From Social to Unequal

Marija Stambolieva

3Long-term Care for the Elderly in Europe

Development and Prospects

Edited by Bent Greve

Edited by Bent Greve

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BENT GREVE

RBERT I. GL

VIRGINIJA POKUT

ZOFIA CZEPULIS-RUTKOWSKA

ALEXANDRA LOPES

EMMANUELE PAVOLINI, COSTANZO RANCI AND GIOVANNI LAMURA

PLATON TINIOS

CAROLINE GLENDINNING

MARGITTA MTZKE AND TOBIAS WI

ISMO LINNOSMAA AND LIEN NGUYEN

BENT GREVE

BENT GREVE

Zofia Czepulis-Rutkowska is a Senior Researcher in the Institute of Labour and Social Studies in Warsaw (Poland). Her research interests cover social policy institutions with a focus on pension systems and long-term care, social policy models and European social policy. She has participated in numerous comparative research projects. She has authored many publications on various aspects of social policy. Apart from her research activities, she worked for the Polish Social Insurance Institution from 2003 to 2010 as the Director of the International Co-operation Department, and in 2011 she worked for the Chancellery of the President of Poland as the director of the Social Policy Office. From 2007 to 2014, she was an expert in the Polish Senate working group preparing the law on long-term care.

Rbert I. Gl is a Senior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Demographic Research Institute, a Senior Extern at TARKI Social Research Institute, and an Affiliated Professor at the Corvinus University (CUB), all in Budapest. He holds his MSc in Economics from CUB and his PhD in Sociology from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His research interest is the regularities of lifecycle financing through intergenerational transfers. He is part of the global National Transfers Accounts project where he leads the intergenerational indicators working group. As a consultant, he has been repeatedly invited by the European Commission (as a member of the ASISP and ESPN expert networks), the International Labour Organisation as well as various government agencies and nongovernmental bodies in Hungary.

Caroline Glendinning is Professor Emerita, University of York (UK). Prior to retirement, Caroline had a long career of social policy-related research into disability, social gerontology, family care and adult social care. She led a large UK Department of Health-funded social care research programme at the Social Policy Research Unit, University of York, and was a founding Associate Director of the English NIHR School for Social Care Research. She also led the national evaluation of the individual budget pilot programme (IBSEN) and a large prospective study of home care reablement services. She has long-standing interests in policies, funding and organisation of long-term care in other countries. Caroline is a Trustee of the UK Thalidomide Trust. She is currently involved in local projects aimed at reducing social isolation among older people, and she contributes to EU social policy networks.

Bent Greve is Professor in Welfare State Analysis. He holds a masters degree in economics from the University of Copenhagen and a PhD and a doctoral degree in public administration from the Roskilde University (Denmark). His research on the welfare state covers areas such social security, the labour market, financing, tax expenditure, happiness and well-being. He has been the Danish expert to several European studies. He has published many books and articles, and he is currently the regional and special issues editor of