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Key policy issues in long-term care / [editors, J. Brodsky, J. Habib, and M. Hirschfeld].
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Series:
- World Health Organization collection on long-term care.
- World Health Organization collection on long-term care
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Long-term care of the sick--Government policy.
- Long-term care of the sick.
- Long-term care of the sick--United States.
- Caregivers.
- Integrated delivery of health care.
- Integrated delivery of health care--Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 270 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Geneva : World Health Organization, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Demographic and epidemiological transitions will result in dramatic changes in the health needs of the world's populations. Everywhere, there is a steep increase in the need for long-term care (LTC). These trends reflect two interrelated processes. One is the growth in factors that increase the prevalence of long-term disability in the population. The second is the change in the capacity of the informal support system to address these needs. Both of these processes enhance the urgency for public policies to address the consequences of these changes. The growing need for LTC policies is generally associated with industrialized countries. What is less widely acknowledged is that long-term care needs are increasing in the developing world at a rate that far exceeds that experienced by industrialized countries. Moreover, the developing world is experiencing increases in LTC needs at levels of income that are far lower than that which existed in the industrialized world when these needs emerged. This volume addresses many of these issues.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The role of and support to the family
- pt. 2. Issues of integration and coordination
- pt. 3. Human resources
- pt. 4. Evaluating long-term care
- pt. 5. Choosing overall LTC strategies.
- Notes:
- "The Cross-Cluster Initiative on Long-Term Care, World Health Organization, Geneva and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on Health of the Elderly, JCD-Brookdale Institute."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-06046-8
- 9786610060467
- 92-4-068082-9
- 0-585-46811-7
- OCLC:
- 476034659
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