Main description:

This book provides a comprehensive overview on the long-term care systems in 12 EU member states and Norway. Focusing on the legal background and its main principles, it includes a comparative analysis which highlights the principal dissimilarities between European long term care benefits, but at the same time also a variety of features in common. It also discusses the increasingly transnational dimension of long-term as a result of migrants returning to their country of origin in old age, and the still-unsolved legal problem of entitlement to long-term care benefits in another EU-member state.

Contents:

Ulrich Becker, Introduction.- Walter Pfeil, Long-Term Care in Austria.- Martin Stefko and Kristina Koldinska, Long-Term Care in the Czech Republic.- Otto Kaufmann, Long-Term Care in France.- Hans-Joachim Reinhard, Long-Term Care in Germany.- Joszef Hajdu and Dora Lajko, Long-Term Care in Hungary.- Eva Maria Hohnerlein, Long-Term Care in Italy.- Tineke Dijkhoff, Long-Term Care in The Netherlands.- Sebastian Weber, Long-Term Care in Norway.- Ariel Przybylowicz, Long-Term Care in Poland.- Grega Strban, Long-Term Care in Slovenia.- Sebastian Weber, Long-Term Care in Sweden.- Hardy Landolt and Iren Bischofsberger, Long-Term Care in Switzerland.- Hans-Joachim Reinhard, Long-Term Care in Spain.- Hans-Joachim Reinhard, Comparison.