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The Israeli long-term care insurance law
— selected issues in providing home care services to the frail elderly | | Author(s) | Hillel Schmid |
| Journal title | Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 13, no 3, May 2005 |
| Pages | pp 191-200 |
| Source | www.blackwellpublishing.com/hsc |
| Keywords | Health insurance ; Insurance [elderly] ; Domiciliary services ; Services ; Israel. |
| Annotation | The goals and principles of Israel's Long-Term Care Insurance Law (1988), which mandates the provision of home care services to frail older people, are presented. The paper describes and analyses selected issues related to the provision of services following the Law, and evaluates the Law's contribution toward enhancing older clients' well-being. Several major dilemmas that arose following the Law's implementation are analysed and evaluated in comparison with other countries that have enacted and implemented similar laws. These dilemmas are: community vs institutional care; services in kind vs monetary allowances; service provision through contracting out with non-governmental agencies; unstable and unskilled labour force; and service quality. Policy implications are discussed concerning investment in human resources as a condition for achieving high service quality, and the need for co-ordination between the agencies that provide long-term care for older people. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050518208 A |
| Classmark | WPG: JG: N: I: 7H6 |
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