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The economics of care of the elderly
- Authors:
- PACOLET Jozef, WILDERCOM Celeste
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 241p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Set of papers given at a colloquium in March 1990 in Brussels, where a group of economists presented their theoretical and empirical progress on an EC initiated project on the care of elderly people. Divided into 4 parts: part 1: the ageing population and the organisation of the welfare state: macro economic analysis; part 2: significance of informal care of elderly people; part 3: how to meet the needs of elderly people: relevance of micro-economic analysis; and part 4: policy formation for older people. This section includes comparative studies of Belgium, Denmark, Spain, France, West Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the United Kingdom.
Social work and the European Community: the social policy and practice contexts
- Editor:
- HILL Malcolm
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 208p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Analyses the similarities and differences in approaches to public welfare, social service organisation, and social work education within the social and political contexts of the European Community. Includes more specific chapters on: responses to child abuse in the EC; youth services and juvenile justice in the EC; services to elderly people in Belgium, France, West Germany and the Republic of Ireland; and services to families with young children in Denmark.