This article explores changes that took place in long-term care (LTC) policies during the last
two decades in six European welfare states. In this regard, it addresses three issues:(1) why …

Objectives: The general aim of the article is to incorporate the stratification perspective into
the study of (long-term) care systems. In particular, 3 issues are investigated: the extents to …

It seems an impossible task to write critically and reflexively about the contemporary status of
research on neo-liberalism. This can be blamed on both the broad, elusive usage of neo …

This report was commissioned by the Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs with the
aim of analysing the decision to make or to buy long-term care services, ie whether to deliver …

The impact that providing care to ageing parents has on adult children's lives may depend
on the long-term care (LTC) context. A common approach to test this is to compare whether …

The organisational and temporal framing of elderly care in Europe has changed in the wake
of new public management reforms and standardised care services, the strict measurement …

Reflecting on the temporal conditions of home care work, care workers are fairly critical,
stressing that time frames are inflexible and time is limited and occasionally insufficient …

In ganz Europa wird die Frage nach der Zukunftsfähigkeit der unterschiedlichen
wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Systeme diskutiert. Gesucht wird unter anderem nach innovativen …

The Nordic countries share a tradition of universal, tax-financed eldercare services, centred
on public provision. Yet Nordic eldercare has not escaped the influence of the global wave …

Healthy and active ageing has become an ideal in W estern societies. In the N ordic
countries, this ideal has been supported through a policy of help to self‐help in elder care …