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Family care of the elderly: social and cultural changes
- Editor:
- KOSBERG Jordan I.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 329p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Newbury Park, CA
Takes a global look at care for older people within the family circle, and compares and contrasts global changes in the last decade.
Housing frail elders: international policies, perspectives and prospects
- Editors:
- PYNOOS Jon, LIEBIG Phoebe S.
- Publisher:
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 297p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
Part 1 looks at trends and policies in housing frail older people, and at the implications for long term care. Part 2 presents European approaches to the subject. Part 3 looks at the issue from an Israeli perspective and part 4 at the situation in the United States, Canada and Australia. Concludes with a comparative study of policies in 4 countries.
The graying of the world: who will care for the frail elderly?
- Editor:
- OLSON Laura Katz
- Publisher:
- Haworth Press
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 345p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, NY
Comparative study of policies for older people in 11 countries. Countries covered include Canada, China, Finland, Germany, Israel, Japan, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States and Yugoslavia.
Home care for the elderly
- Author:
- INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- International Social Security Association
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 140p.
- Place of publication:
- Geneva
Report describing the experience in 8 European countries with regard to assistance, health care and home care for older and disabled people, focusing in particular on the debate over the introduction of a dependency benefit.
Payments for care: a comparative overview
- Editors:
- EVERS Adalbert, PIJL Marja, UNGERSON Clare
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 358p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Presents a collection of papers looking at how payments for care schemes are developing across Western and Central Europe, the United States and Canada. Includes discussions of payments to 'volunteers', and consideration of the way in which social security and tax systems work to increase the incomes of care recipients and their carers. Also includes introductory chapters discussing general and theoretical issues involved in the development of systems of payments for care including the labour market, empowerment and the relationship between carers and care recipients.
New welfare mixes in care for the elderly: vol. 2; Austria, Denmark, Finland, Israel, Netherlands
- Editors:
- EVERS Adalbert, SVETLIK Ivan
- Publisher:
- European Centre for Social Welfare Policy
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 121p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Vienna
A country-by-country examination of welfare provision for older people focusing in particular on the mix of private and public sector provision. Volume 1 is on Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Yugoslavia; volume 2 is on Austria, Denmark, Finland, Israel and the Netherlands; volume 3 is on Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom.
Social services in international perspective: the emergence of the sixth system
- Authors:
- KAHN Alfred J., KAMERMAN Sheila B
- Publisher:
- United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Social Rehabilitati
- Publication year:
- 1977
- Pagination:
- 418p.
- Place of publication:
- Washington, DC
Covers socail services in Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Poland, United Kingdom, United States, and Yugoslavia.