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| Towards an international consensus on policy for long-term care of the ageing | | Corporate Author | Ageing and Health Programme, World Health Organization - WHO; Milbank Memorial Fund |
| Publisher | World Health Organization - WHO, New York, NY, 2000 |
| Pages | 17 pp (WHO/HSC/AHE/00.1) |
| Source | Milbank Memorial Fund, 645 Madison Avenue, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10022-1095, USA. Email: mmf@milbank.org |
| Keywords | Services ; Health services ; Long term ; Social policy ; International. |
| Annotation | In this instance, long-term care (LTC) is defined as the system of activities undertaken by informal caregivers (family, friends, and/or neighbours) and/or professionals (health, social, and others) to ensure that a person who is not fully capable of self-care can maintain the highest quality of life. This report describes principles to inform policies for sustaining for sustainable programmes in LTC consistent with priorities of individual countries, whether industrialised or developing. The following priority issues and their guiding principles for policy are outlined: personal and public values; private- and public-sector roles and responsibilities; public education; formal and informal caregiver roles, responsibilities and rights; infrastructure of LTC system for provision of social and health care services; income security and financing of LTC systems and services; current and future technology; and research, data collection, and strategic analysis. Comments are invited on the guiding principles. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000628201 B |
| Classmark | I: L: 4Q: TM2: 72 |
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