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- Title
Ökonomisierung von Pflege in Großbritannien, Schweden und Deutschland.
- Authors
Auth, D.
- Abstract
This article deals with long-term care policies in three different welfare and long-term care regimes. Despite of divergent regime assignments-Great Britain: liberal welfare state und means-tested long-term care regime, Sweden: social-democratic welfare state and social services long-term care regime, and Germany: conservative-corporatist welfare state and subsidiarity long-term care regime-all three countries restructured their long-term care policies during the 1990s in the context of neoliberal economization and marketization. All countries introduced efficiency-oriented measures, foster competition between different social service providers, and increase choices of people in need of elderly care. By analyzing the regulation of long-term care policies since the National Health Service and Community Care Act (1990) in Great Britain, the Ädel reform (1992) in Sweden, and the introduction of the long-term care insurance (1994) in Germany, it can be shown that specific, national pathways, which due to the divergence of regimes and the specific long-term care problems within a country, have evolved.
- Subjects
LONG-term care facilities; PUBLIC welfare; SOCIAL services; MEDICAL care; WELFARE state
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie, 2012, Vol 45, Issue 7, p618
- ISSN
0948-6704
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00391-012-0389-0