List of contributors

Foreword

Chapter 1. Long-term care: what is it about? (Bent Greve)

Chapter 2. Long-term care for the elderly in Hungary (Róbert I. Gál)

Chapter 3. Long-term care: challenges and perspective (Virginija Poškut¿)

Chapter 4. Long-term care for the elderly in Poland (Zofia Czepulis-Rutkowska)

Chapter 5. Long-term care in Portugal: quasi-privatization of a dual system of care (Alexandra Lopes)

Chapter 6. Long-term care in Italy (Emmanuele Pavolini, Costanzo Ranci and Giovanni Lamura)

Chapter 7. Greece: forced transformation in a deep crisis (Platon Tinios)

Chapter 8. Long-term care and austerity in the UK: a growing crisis (Caroline Glendinning)

Chapter 9. Paradoxical decisions in German long-term care: expansion of benefits as cost-containment strategy (Margitta Mätzke and Tobias Wiß)

Chapter 10. Long-term care expenditures in Finland (Ismo Linnosmaa and Lien Nguyen)

Chapter 11. Long-term care in Denmark: with an eye to the other Nordic welfare states (Bent Greve)

Chapter 12. Some concluding reflections (Bent Greve)

Index

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

Long-term care is an increasingly important issue in contemporary welfare states given ageing populations. This groundbreaking book provides detailed case-studies of 11 European states' welfare regimes 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. The book specifically looks at the development in long-term care for the elderly after the financial crisis, the boundaries between state and civil society in the different approaches to the delivery of care, and assesses the argument that demographic transitions impact and create a cause for economic pressure on welfare states.