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25 Aug 2016




Disability and technology. An interdisciplinary and international approach

Author: Roulstone, A. (ed) The question of technology and disability has provoked an array of academic debate which share the objective of enhancing social or bodily function. Diverse models of disability attempt to locate the role technology plays in disabled people’s lives and how it can enhance the human condition. The book describes the myriad ways […]

25 Aug 2016

29 Apr 2016




Norms of filial obligation and actual support to parents in Central and Eastern Europe

Authors: Muresan, C. et al.  Published: December 2015 This study is a cross-national comparison regarding the relationship between norms of filial obligation and actual giving of care and financial support in several Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries as compared to Western Europe (WE). The authors examine to what extent norms of filial obligation are consistent with […]

29 Apr 2016

19 Apr 2016




Comparison of nursing home financial transparency and accountability in four locations

Authors: Harrington, C. et al.                 Published: November 2015 The marketization and privatization of nursing home care has grown in many countries along with expenditures. Using documents and government reports, this study explored the following three research questions about nursing homes in California, Ontario, England, and Norway: (1) the contextual and privatization differences; (2) payment methods […]

19 Apr 2016

11 Apr 2016




The political construction of elder care markets: comparing Denmark, Finland and Italy

Authors: Burau, V. et al.    Published: March 2016 This paper examines the fundamental ideas underpinning the policies of marketization, using the ‘What’s the problem?’ approach by Carol Bacchi. The central question is how the market was discursively framed as the solution to the perceived problems of three different systems of elder care, and how such […]

11 Apr 2016

15 Feb 2016




The policy and politics of the 2015 long-term care reform in the Netherlands

Authors: Maarse, J.A.M. and Jeurissen, P.P.                     Published: February 2016 As of 2015 a major reform in LTC is taking place in the Netherlands. An important objective of the reform is to reign in expenditure growth to safeguard the fiscal sustainability of LTC. Other objectives are to improve the quality of LTC by making it more […]

15 Feb 2016

02 Feb 2016




Barriers to linking research and policy: the case of LTC in low and middle income countries

Author: Peter Lloyd-Sherlock                                             Published: January 2016 This paper sets out a number of issues related to the translation of research into evidence and policy for long-term care (LTC) in low and middle income countries (LMICs). […]

02 Feb 2016

29 Jan 2016




Telecare solutions for older people and carers

Authors: Chapman, A. & Yeandle, S.      Published: January 2016 This Policy Brief is based on a policy-practice workshop ‘Advances in telecare: new solutions for carers and older people’, held at Queen’s University Belfast on 9 June 2015. The brief includes an overview of four presentations at the workshop covering a study of telecare, older people […]

29 Jan 2016

13 Jan 2016




Long-term care reforms in OECD countries

Editors: Gori C, Fernandez JL & Wittenberg R Published: December 2015 The book brings together evidence from over 15 years of care reform to examine changes in long-term care systems occurring in OECD countries. It discusses and compares key changes in national policies and examines the main successes and failures of recent reforms. Finally, it […]

13 Jan 2016

05 Jan 2016




Assistive technology for people with LTC needs: home automation

Author: Sandulescu, V.                                         Published: 2015 The paper presents a critical analysis of various works in the field of assistive technologies, the ways they are or can be implemented in domotic systems for the aim of improving the lives of elderly or people struggling with disabilities. The achievements and the research done so far in the […]

05 Jan 2016

22 Dec 2015




Integrated care, choice and competition in Germany and Sweden

Authors: Leichsenring, K, Rodrigues, R., Winkelmann, J., Falk, R.                         Published: August 2015 This  study  addresses the  question  whether  market oriented  governance  based  on  competition  and choice  is  compatible  with  the  most  desirable  and  allegedly  most  effective  delivery  of integrated long-term  care. The report includes a literature review and findings from three […]

22 Dec 2015

14 Dec 2015




16th International Conference on Integrated Care A Movement for Change: Enabling People-Centred and Integrated Health and Social Care to take place in Barcelona, 23-25 May 2016

The 16th International Conference on Integrated Care will take place in Barcelona from 23-25 May 2016. The conference is co-hosted with PIAISS of the Catalan Government, Hospital Clinic Barcelona (HCB), Forum ITESSS and the Tic Salut Foundation. All accepted abstracts will be published in the International Journal of Integrated Care (Impact Factor 1.500) Accepted abstracts […]

14 Dec 2015

25 Nov 2015




Unmet need for long-term care and social exclusion

Authors: Anne Laferrère and Karel Van den Bosch                 Published: 2015 Older people needing long-term care are more likely to suffer from both social and material deprivation than those without such needs.  In countries where the responsibility for long-term care is mainly put upon families  they are more likely to have unmet needs for care than their […]

25 Nov 2015

03 Nov 2015




Gaps in the evidence on improving social care outcomes: findings from a meta-review of systematic reviews

Authors:  Dickson, K. et al.                                                 Published: October 2015 The authors conducted a meta-review to analyse and summarise systematic review-level evidence on the impact of interventions on the four outcomes set out in the ASCOF: quality of life, delaying and reducing the need for services, satisfaction with services and safeguarding of vulnerable adults. This paper focuses on […]

03 Nov 2015

28 Oct 2015




The barriers to sustaining and scaling-up housing experiments in community-care: The Dutch experience

Authors: Cramer, H. Voordijk, H. Dewulf, G.                   Published: 2015 The study provides new insights into barriers to sustaining and scaling-up housing and community care innovations related to changing the long-term care system. The authors studied two housing and community-care experiments. The eleven barriers and four core themes identified to the scaling-up of these experiments were analysed using the […]

28 Oct 2015

21 Oct 2015




Being dependent rather than disabled in France: does the institutional barrier at 60 affect care arrangements?

Author: Marianne Tenand                Published: September 2015 While individuals having difficulties with the activities of daily living may benefit from public home care subsidies, the French system distinguishes between disability schemes, accessible to individuals below 60, and dependence schemes, open to those aged 60 or more. The author assessed whether this institutional threshold has an impact on care […]

21 Oct 2015

13 Oct 2015




How Affordable Care Act in US Falls Short In Expanding Home Care Services To The Elderly

Author: Vento, N.                                Published:  2015 The author argues that while The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) makes great strides in the interest of providing home and community-based services, the creation of four new optional programs for states to adopt falls short in  bridging the gap between institutional care and home and community-based […]

13 Oct 2015

02 Oct 2015




Conference ‘The State of the Welfare State in EU anno 1992 and 20 years later’, Leuven, 19-20 October 2015

For the fifth time already, every five years, the welfare state and housing research group of HIVA organises a European conference on the impact of the European integration on mostly national systems of social protection. Please click here for programme and registration. Since the last conference a new financial and broader budgetary crisis has occurred, […]

02 Oct 2015

01 Oct 2015




WCIC3, Mexico City, 19-21 November 2015

The International Foundation of Integrated Care (IFIC), in partnership with The Secretaria de la Salud Mexicana, the National College for Especialist on Integrated Medicine (CONAEMI) and the University of Anahuac, presents the 3rd World Congress on Integrated Care and the 8th National Congress of Integrated Medicine “Co-producing High Quality People-Centered Integrated Care for ALL” to take […]

01 Oct 2015

01 Oct 2015




Technology Innovations, Odense, 20 October 2015

The Technology Innovations: Supporting Integrated Care at Home and in Communities conference will take place on Tuesday, 20 October and will consider how to use new technologies to support people with complex chronic needs to live independently and well in their homes and communities. In particular, it will examine the issues in ‘how to’ deploy […]

01 Oct 2015

21 Sep 2015




The effect of frailty and health instability in home care users on admission to long-term care.

Author:  McKenzie, K.                    Published: August 2015   The frailty index was developed using published criteria to select items from the Resident Assessment Instrument Home Care. Assessments of 7,863 individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Ontario (aged 18 -99 years) provided the data. Adjusting for age, sex, rural status, caregiver status, living situation, and cognition […]

21 Sep 2015

15 Sep 2015




Systematic Review of Retention of Direct-Care Workers in Long-term Care Facilities

Author: Goins, R.E.              Published: August 2015   The review includes English-only studies from 2001-2004, retrieved from CINAHL with Medline simultaneous, ProQuest, and Ovid resources.  Out of  858 publications  17 articles met the inclusion criteria for this systematic review. Findings suggest that  factors such as job training, management style, acknowledgement of accomplishments, career advancements, benefits, peer mentoring, competitive wages and […]

15 Sep 2015

08 Sep 2015




Family spillovers of long-term care insurance

Authors: N. B. Coe; G. S. Goda and C. van Houtven                      Published: August 2015 The paper explores how long-term care insurance (LTCI) affects family outcomes expected to be sensitive to LTCI, including utilization of informal care and spillover effects on children. The findings suggest that  significant economic gains from private LTCI could accrue to the younger generation. […]

08 Sep 2015

25 Aug 2015




Getting to the Roots of Long-Term Care Needs: A Regression Tree Analysis

Authors:  Bassetti, T. and Rebba, V.                    Published: August 2015 This study explores the effects of individual and environmental determinants on physical and cognitive impairment of Europeans aged 50 and older using data drawn from the Survey of Health Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The findings illustrate that a) cognitive impairment, measured by the results […]

25 Aug 2015

11 Aug 2015




Long-term Care Reform and the Labor Supply of Household Members – A Difference-in-differences Approach

Authors: T. Korfhage & G. Johannes                                                  Published: August 2015 In this paper, the authors analyze the labor supply effects of the introduction of the long-term care insurance (LTCI) in Germany in 1995. It was supposed to insure the entire population against the risk of LTC and to strengthen family care. The results illustrate that while the insurance […]

11 Aug 2015

04 Aug 2015




Unequal Inequalities: The Stratification of the Use of Formal (Long-Term) Care Among Older Europeans

Authors: M. Albertini  & E. Pavolini                                      Published:  July 2015 The paper examines the extents to which (a) personal and family resources influence the likelihood of using formal care in later life; (b) the unequal access to formal care is mediated by differences in the availability of informal support; (c) the relationship between individuals’ resources and […]

04 Aug 2015

22 Jul 2015




Managing Frailty as a Long-term Condition

Authors: J. K. Harrison  et al.                         Published: July 2015 The paper examines  how the conceptualisation of frailty as a long-term condition offers new approaches to manage the condition based on systematic preventative and proactive interventions. To read more visit Age and Ageing.

22 Jul 2015

07 Jul 2015




Informal Care and Recession in Europe

Authors: J. Costa Font; M. Karlsson; H. Øien               Published: June 2015 The paper investigates how the demand for and provision of informal care changed during and after the  recession in Europe using data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The analysis shows that the economic downturn was associated with a […]

07 Jul 2015

08 Jun 2015




Long-Term Care Financing: Lessons From France

Author: Pamela Doty, Pamela Nadash, Nathalie Racco Published date: June 4, 2015 The authors consulted insurance experts and conducted a detailed review of public reports, academic studies, and other documents to understand the public and private LTCI systems in France, their advantages and disadvantages, and the factors affecting their development. To read more visit: Milbank Quarterly.

08 Jun 2015

18 May 2015




Role of Care for the Prevention of Falls and Fractures among Elderly Persons Living in LTC Facilities

Author: Tatsuya Koike; Published date: Apr 17, 2015 ”The most important thing is that caregivers in long-term care facilities develop a better understanding of risk factors for falls and fractures to reduce fall-related injuries of residents.” To read the full article visit Journal of Nursing and Care.

18 May 2015

18 May 2015




Developments in Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation in the US

Author: Shane Grant; Published: Spring 2015 in Human Services Capstones Paper 1. The article gives an overview on the developments in long-term care and rehabilitation in the US. To read more visit Goodwin College.

18 May 2015