Long-term care

August Österle

Chapter 12 in Research Handbook on Health Care Policy, 2024, pp 191-207 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Ageing populations, growing long-term care needs, pressure on traditional arrangements of informal care-giving and care worker shortages make long-term care a major health and social policy concern of the first half of the 21st century. The challenges are shared around the globe. International organisations are increasingly recognising long-term care as a distinctive social risk and several countries have started to establish more comprehensive long-term care systems from the 1990s, while in many others they still do not exist as such. This chapter introduces the concept of long-term care, it explores the emergence and the development of long-term care systems, it studies the different options for the delivery, finance and governance of long-term care, and examines how ideas, institutions and interests are shaping long-term care and long-term care policies. The discussion pays particular attention to the links with health policies and uses examples from around the world.

Keywords: Business and Management; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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