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 …

Deinstitutionalization is an important trend in the redesign of long-term eldercare in Finland.
It refers to a process where traditional institutional care is partly replaced by home care …

Abstract Cash‐for‐care (CfC) schemes are monetary transfers to people in need of care who
can use them to organize their own care arrangements. Mostly introduced in the 1990s …

Full article: Facing the Challenges in the Development of Long-Term Care for Older People in
Europe in the Context of an Economic Crisis Skip to Main Content Taylor and Francis Online …

Demographic change and policy changes in social care provision can affect the type of
social care support received by older people, whether through informal, formal state or …

The term 'care crisis' is invoked to denote chronic system failures and bad outcomes for the
people involved. We present a comprehensive wellbeing framework and illustrate its …

Over the past two decades three phenomena have grown in social, political and economic
significance for welfare states in Europe and beyond: the development of care provision for …

This article reviews the design and delivery features of individualised budgets for disabled
and older adults to understand the mechanisms for disaggregation and collaboration in the …

Extensively updated, this second edition of the Advanced Introduction to Social Policy
provides a concise overview of the field that takes newer realities into account as well as …

Background Relationships exist between aged care nurses' perceptions of psychosocial
work characteristics, job satisfaction and mental health, suggesting these characteristics …