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The growing risk of dependency in old age
— what role for families and for social security? | | Author(s) | Patrick Hennessy |
| Journal title | International Social Security Review, vol 50, no 1, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 23-39 |
| Keywords | Organisation of care ; Services ; Health services ; Long term ; Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Social security benefits ; Family care ; Grant allocation ; International. |
| Annotation | This paper attempts a broad overview of recent trends in the organisation and financing of long-term care, giving special consideration to the role of families and social security mechanisms. Recent reforms in a number of OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries are reviewed, and finally a set of goals is proposed by which both current systems and proposed alternatives may be assessed. An overall conclusion is that industrial societies will most certainly have to devote more resources to long-term care. While we now have a reasonably good idea how we would wish services to be deployed, major questions remain about how the cost is to be shared across the population. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980313202 A |
| Classmark | P: I: L: 4Q: KW: LHB: JH: P6:SJ: QCG: 72 * |
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