Simmons, Cassandra, Ilinca, Stefania, Comas-Herrera, Adelina 
ORCID: 0000-0002-9860-9062, Champeix, Claire, Southard, Lian and Zonnenveld, Nick
(2024)
Strengthening social infrastructure in long-term care for older people: coordinated action and local empowerment in Europe.
In: Renner, Anna-Theresa, Plank, Leonhard and Getzner, Michael, (eds.)
Handbook of Social Infrastructure: Conceptual and Empirical Research Perspectives.
Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 39 - 56.
ISBN 9781800883123
Abstract
Accelerated population aging, changing socio-economic patterns and more recently the COVID-19 pandemic are increasingly challenging the sustainability of traditional care models in Europe and beyond, bringing long-term care system development to the forefront of the policy agenda. Despite the increasing recognition, investment in long-term care remains chronically low in most European countries even as recent studies reveal large and growing service capacity gaps and a social infrastructure investment gap that is more than twice as large as that observed for healthcare. In this chapter we provide an overview of the slow development of both tangible (long-term care service availability, support for informal caregiving) and intangible (workforce availability and training, data infrastructure) assets for community-based long-term care in Europe. We conclude by recommending a pathway to long-term care development that emphasizes the empowerment of local communities and governing bodies to design and implement programs for social infrastructure development.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | © 2024 The Editors |
| Divisions: | Care Policy and Evaluation Centre |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Feb 2025 11:06 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Feb 2025 11:09 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/127338 |
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