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Eldercare, Distributive Justice, and the Welfare State

Retrenchment or Expansion

Häftad, Engelska, 1994

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The essays in this book describe the situation of the elderly today, taking into account the major political, economic, and social variations of service provided in a variety of countries. Although the welfare state exists in all developed and developing countries, its content and administration varies substantially.The editors first develop a framework of concepts and perspectives that establish links between eldercare, distributive justice, and the welfare state. This is followed by analyses of the services provided to the elderly in selected countries. Finally, the editors show how and in what ways the concepts developed earlier in the introduction-equity, uniformity, public accountability, individualism, collectivism, institutional or residual welfare state orientation, "high" or "low" wage economy-apply to and explain the differences in care of the elderly.

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Utgivningsdatum1994-02-24
Mått149 x 227 x 16 mm
Vikt463 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in the Political Economy of Health Care
Antal sidor335
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791417669

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ForewordPrefaceIntroduction1. Sweden: Ideals and Realities of Old Age Care in the Welfare State Gerdt Sundstrom and Mats Thorslund2. Long-Term Care for the Aged in Germany (FRG): Structure and ProspectsMartin Jaeckel3. Coping with Unemployment and Poverty While Increasing Capital Accumulation: Social Policy in France during the 1980sIsidor Wallimann4. The Development of Geriatric Services for Elderly Icelanders: Pursuing Equity and UniformityG. Darryl Wieland5. Switzerland: Social Policy and the Welfare State CrisisJean-Pierre Fragniere6. Distributive Justice, Contradictions, and Rationality in Mature Capitalism: The Case of Health Care and Social Services for the Aged in ItalyAllessandro Bonanno and Toni M. Calasanti7. The Elderly and the Social Policy in Poland: Stereotyping, Uncoordinated, and Over-BureaucraticJozefina Hrynkiewicz, Joanna Starega-Piasek, and Jolanta Supinska8. The Provision of Primary Health Care to the Elderly in the USSR: Problems and Their SolutionsRustam R. Muzafarov and Ernest M. Kurleutov9. The Political Economy Perspective of Health and Medical Care Policies for the Aged in Japan: Centering on the Decade of Free Medical Care Program for the AgedYasuhito Kinoshita10. Health Care in CanadaNeena L. Chapell11. Governmental Responsibility: Adequacy or Dependency for the USA AgedJon HendricksEpilogueContributorsIndex