Long-term Care for the Elderly in Europe

Long-term care is an increasingly important issue in contemporary welfare states given ageing populations. This groundbreaking book provides detailed case-studies of 11 European states¿ welfare regimes to show how welfare states organize, structure and deliver long-term care, and whether there is a social investment perspective in the delivery of long-term care. The book specifically looks at the development in long-term care for the elderly after the financial crisis, the boundaries between state and civil society in the different approaches to the delivery of care, and assesses the argument that demographic transitions impact and create a cause for economic pressure on welfare states.