Background Costs and consumer preference have led to a shift from the long-term
institutional care of aged older people to home and community based care. The aim of this …

Person-centered dementia care is widely accepted as a value-based commitment to
supporting people with dementia and is a guiding principle in care services. Policy …

The latest edition builds on the success of previous volumes with the addition of several new
services and some changes requested by readers. Funded by the Department of Health and …

This has been an important year for how patient care in the English NHS is organised, with
the Health and Social Care Act (2012) introducing substantial changes for the NHS. One of …

Health and care services have failed to keep up with this dramatic demographic shift. The
NHS has designed hospital medical specialties around single organ diseases. Primary care …

The use of markets and market mechanisms to deliver care services is growing in both
liberal and social democratic welfare states. This article examines debates and policies …

The Health Systems in Transition (‎ HiT)‎ country profiles provide an analytical description of
each health system and of reform initiatives in progress or under development. They aim to …

Direct payments and personal budgets are two of the most exciting and important
developments in adult social care since the Second World War. From very small-scale …

During the first decade of this century, social work education underwent a major
transformation to ensure that qualified social workers were educated at least to honours …

This paper presents empirical findings from the comparison between two principal
preference elicitation techniques: discrete choice experiments and profile-based best–worst …