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Paying for long-term domiciliary care
— a comparative perspective | | Author(s) | Caroline Glendinning, Michaela Schunk, Eithne McLaughlin |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 17, part 2, March 1997 |
| Pages | pp 123-140 |
| Keywords | Family care ; Long term ; Finance [care] ; Social security benefits ; Attendance allowance ; Insurance [elderly] ; Comparison ; United Kingdom ; Ireland ; Germany ; France ; Italy ; Scandinavia. |
| Annotation | This paper is based on the assumption that the state has a continuing role to play in supporting long-term care of older people who receive most of their care from close family members. Drawing on material from a detailed comparative study, it describes four different models of financing long-term domiciliary care: a social security model (as in the UK and Ireland); a social insurance model (as in Germany); an attendance allowance model (as in France and Italy); and a 'social services' approach, where informal care giving payments are embedded within social welfare services (in some Scandinavian countries). These models are discussed and evaluated, taking into account factors which include the eligibility criteria for payments, maximising the autonomy of family care givers and older people, and the relationships between financial payments and access to services. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970804001 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: 4Q: QC: JH: JHP: JG: 48: 8: 763: 767: 765: 76V: 76G |
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