Books in the Social Welfare Around the World series

Long-term care is an increasingly important issue in contemporary welfare states given ageing populations. This groundbreaking book provides detailed case-studies of 11 European states¿ welfare regimes to show how welfare states organize, structure and deliver long-term care, and whether there is a social investment perspective in the delivery of long-term care. The book specifically looks at the development in long-term care for the elderly after the financial crisis, the boundaries between state and civil society in the different approaches to the delivery of care, and assesses the argument that demographic transitions impact and create a cause for economic pressure on welfare states.

Long-term care is an increasingly important issue in many contemporary welfare states around the globe given ageing populations. This ground-breaking book provides detailed case studies of 11 EU-member statesΓÇÖ welfare regimes within Europe to show how welfare states organize, structures and deliver long-term care and whether there is a social investment perspective in the delivery of long-term care. This perspective is important because the effect of demographic transitions is often used as an argument for the existence of economic pressure on welfare states and a need for either direct retrenchment or attempts to reduce welfare state spending. The bookΓÇÖs chapters will look specifically into how different welfare states have focussed on long-term care in recent years and what type of changes have taken place with regard to ageing populations and ambitions to curb increases in public sector spending in this area. They describe the development in long-term care for the elderly after the financial crisis and also discuss the boundaries between state and civil society in the different welfare states'' approaches to the delivery of care.

This book explores generation as both a reference to family or kinship structures, and a reference to cohorts or age sets. The principal objective is branching out this two-part concept through studies of tensions and solidarity within and between generations of advanced and robust welfare states.

Investigates welfare state change in the area of healthcare - a field widely neglected by comparative welfare state research. Addressing the research gap, the author analyses in what way the social right to health care has been modified in the course of general welfare state transformation since the late 1970s.