The remarkable growth of older population has moved long-term care to the front ranks of the social policy agenda in the European Union. This paper addresses the issue of the longterm care in Lithuania, its philosophy, the legal and funding regularities, management issues and LTC policy. Its...

In the field of social protection, Poland belongs to the EU group of countries with the familybased welfare model, what is extremely visible for the long-term care where family is the main care provider for elderly individuals with limitations in activities of daily living. At the same time the...

Developing responsive to needs, efficient and sustainable long-term care systems for elderly becomes due to rising demographic pressures an urgent issue all over Europe. Czech Republic is among the countries that have redesigned long-term care system according the principles of accessibility,...

The increasing life expectancy and the alarming growth in the incidence of chronic illness make long term care services in high demand and in dire need of change and innovation. As part of the ANCIEN initiative, which aims to comprise a database of European approaches for dealing with long term...

The aim of this paper is to identify patterns of utilization of formal and informal long term care (LTC) across European countries and discuss possible determinants of demand for different types of care. Specific research questions are of the volume of different types of care and conditions...

Long-term care (LTC) in the new EU member states, which used to belong to the former socialist countries, is not yet a legally separated sector of social security. However, the ageing dynamics are more intensive in these states than in the old EU member states. This paper analyses the process of...

The report discusses the formal long-term care workforce in Poland. It presents past and future trends in the development of LTC employment. Authors collected scattered statistical information, estimated lacking data and projected future growth in the number of employed in care services....

Die demographische Alterung tritt in Deutschland derzeit in akute Phase ein, die insbesondere in den gesetzlichen Sozialversicherungen zu finanziellen Anspannungen führt und mittelbar auch Risiken für die Entwicklung des Bundeshaushalts erzeugt. Dies wird im vorliegenden Bericht mit Hilfe von...

Die demographische Alterung erzeugt Risiken für die langfristige Tragfähigkeit der öffentlichen Finanzen in Deutschland, die bei haushaltspolitischen Entscheidungen bereits kurz- und mittelfristig zu beachten sind. Die im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums der Finanzen durchgeführte Untersuchung...

Die demographische Alterung tritt in Deutschland aktuell in eine akute Phase, die unter dem derzeit geltenden Recht zu großen finanziellen Anspannungen in den gesetzlichen Sozialversicherungen führt und mittelbar auch Risiken für die Entwicklung des Bundeshaushalts erzeugt. Dies wird im...