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Long-term care

In: Research Handbook on Health Care Policy

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  • August Österle

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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.

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  • August Österle, 2024. "Long-term care," Chapters, in: Martin Powell & Tuba I. Agartan & Daniel Béland (ed.), Research Handbook on Health Care Policy, chapter 12, pages 191-207, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:20769_12
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