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| The long-term care system in Israel | | Author(s) | Rachel Fleishman |
| Journal title | Health Care Management: State of the Art Reviews, vol 3, no 1, June 1997 |
| Pages | pp 125-147 |
| Keywords | Services ; Health services ; Community care ; Care homes ; Long term ; Social policy ; Israel. |
| Annotation | A number of different types of framework for care of older people can be identified in Israel: institutional care, community-based services (which can be divided into social services, health services, and home care services), educational and training programmes, and planning and research. Many agencies are involved - to different degrees - in the operational, professional and budgetary aspects of these frameworks. This article also outlines the health care and social welfare systems in Israel, and the characteristics, needs and available informal support of the target population. Responsibility for long-term care (LTC) services in Israel is shared by numerous governmental, private and voluntary agencies, based on a division into levels of care. These services increased in the 1970s as part of a general growth in social services and continued to expand in the 1980s, when general growth came to a halt, in recognition of unmet need. Three main trends can be identified in development of LTC: privatisation, which has diversified and expanded the scope of the service; the shift to a balance between institutional- and community based services; and development of mechanisms for quality assurance. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990121206 A |
| Classmark | I: L: PA: KW: 4Q: TM2: 7H6 * |
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