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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.
Day care in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands: a comparative study
- Authors:
- NIES Henk, TESTER Susan, NUIJENS Jan Maarten
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 11(3), September 1991, pp.245-273.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Compares social policy and legislation, service delivery, types of service and user characteristics, and discusses issues of policy and practice.