Long-Term Care and Older People in Western Europe

Eloísa del Pino is Senior Researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes is Senior Researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

• 1. The challenge of policy integration and the complexity of care homes responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe - Eloísa del Pino and Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes2. Welfare regimes and long-term care in the ‘Old Continent’ - Roberta Perna and Luis Moreno3. Muddling through after a strong start: tackling the COVID-19 pandemic in Austrian nursing homes - Monika Riedel and Christoph Stegner4. Lessons not learned: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the residential care sector in England - Caroline Glendinning5. Protecting older people’s lives, forgetting about their other rights? Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in the care home sector in Finland - Tyyne Ylinen, Vera Ylinen, Laura Kalliomaa-Puha, and Statu Ylinen6. Impact of the French top-down management of the COVID-19 pandemic on residential care homes - Arnaud Campéon, Blanche Le Bihan, and Claude Martin7. Large capacities in health care: insufficient protection of vulnerable groups in Germany - Caspar Lückenbach, Eduard Klukas, Phillip Florian Schmidt, and Thomas Gerlinger8. The Greek long term care sector against COVID-19: an effort for excellence - Costis Prouskas and Michael Goudoumas9. Long-term care of older people in residential care settings in Ireland during waves 1 and 2 of the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons (still to be) learned - Sara Burke, Katharine Schulmann, Virpi Timonen and Eimir Hurley10. Neglecting nursing homes: the management of the pandemic crisis in Italy - C. Ranci, M. Arlotti and S. Cerea11. Government response to the COVID-19 pandemic in long-term care residences for older people: preparedness, responses, and challenges for the future in Luxembourg - Robert Urbé and Cristina Font12. The COVID-19 crisis as a ‘hospital issue’: the impact of COVID-19 measures on Dutch nursing homes - María Bruquetas and Anita Böcker13. Portugal: structural weaknesses of nursing homes network exposed by the pandemic - Luís Capucha, Alexandre Daniel Calado and Nuno Nunes14. Long-term care for older people during the COVID-19 pandemic in decentralised Spain - Jorge Hernández-Moreno, Roberta Perna, Manuel Pereira-Puga and Gibrán Cruz-Martínez15. Swedish long-term care for older people in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic - Lennarth Johansson and Pär Schön16. Cross-case analysis and conclusion - Eloísa del Pino and Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes