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| The future of long-term care in Canada - a British perspective | | Author(s) | Alan Walker |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 14, no 2, Summer 1995 |
| Pages | pp 437-446 |
| Keywords | Organisation of care ; Services ; Health services ; Long term ; Social policy ; Canada. |
| Annotation | The author notes similarities between the debate on long-term care in Canada and in European Union (EU) countries, especially in the UK. What Canada refers to as "service diversity" is described in the UK as the "mixed economy of care". As in the UK, the political right in Canada appears to have hijacked the social policy agenda. Another similarity is the centrality of the "burden of societal ageing" thesis with regard to reform of health care. In this article, the author summarises the main dilemmas to emerge from the Conservative government's attempt to reduce the universal scope of the National Health Service (NHS) and the cost of long-term care. He outlines the main issues that have emerged from reforms in the UK which are intended to serve as warnings to Canadian policy-makers trying to chart a similar course. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-970821263 A |
| Classmark | P: I: L: 4Q: TM2: 7S |
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