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| Long-term care reform in Spain | | Author(s) | Joan Costa-Font, Anna Garcia Gonzalez |
| Journal title | Eurohealth, vol 13, no 1, 2007 |
| Publisher | LSE Health; European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2007 |
| Pages | pp 20-22 |
| Source | http://www.lse.ac.uk/LSEHealth eurohealth@lse.ac.uk |
| Keywords | Services ; Health services ; Long term ; Finance [care] ; Social policy ; Spain. |
| Annotation | Public funding of long-term care services in Spain has been limited; traditionally there has been a reliance on family members to provide informal unpaid care. The ageing of the population, coupled with changing family structures, have raised the issue of long-term care up the policy agenda. A new law, guaranteeing the right to long-term care services, funded through taxation but subject to means testing, has now come into effect. While increasing public coverage for long-term care services, this new legislation raises challenges in respect of coordination and deliver of services within and across the seventeen Autonomous Communities that are responsible for the provision of social care services. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070822201 A |
| Classmark | I: L: 4Q: QC: TM2: 76S |
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