Research Handbook on Social Care Policy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ranci, Costanzo, editor.

Rostgaard, Tine, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar handbooks in social policy and welfare.

Elgar handbooks in social policy and welfare

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social policy.

Welfare state.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals

handbooks

Physical Description:

1 online resource (900 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

This Research Handbook provides a comprehensive exploration of recent advances in social care policy scholarship.Spanning a breadth of issues and policy programmes, it presents a systematic, empirically and theoretically grounded overview of social care policy research, addressing a notable gap in a field often dominated by issue or.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Social care policy in the twenty-first century: an introduction

Part I: Setting the scene

Chapter 2: The concept of care: from origins to future challenges

Chapter 3: Care as unpaid and paid work

Chapter 4: New demographics, family structures and care responsibilities in Europe

Chapter 5: Work-care reconciliation: tensions and emerging issues

Chapter 6: Care in feminist welfare state analysis: The Unfinished Agenda

Part II: The care field

Chapter 7: Changes in long-term care policy: striking a balance between sustainability and universalism

Chapter 8: Disability politics and social care

Chapter 9: Early childhood care and education policies: from custody to social investment and beyond

Part III: The organization of care

Chapter 10: Financial sustainability and the financing of long-term care systems

Chapter 11: Marketization and privatization of social care

Chapter 12: Cash-for-care in long-term care for older people: a historical and comparative account

Chapter 13: Technology for care and living:​ a critical perspective​​

Part IV: Care work

Chapter 14: Dilemmas of professionalism in care work for older people

Chapter 15: Care workers: trends and challenges of the long-term care labour market across Europe

Chapter 16: The changing relationship between formal and informal care work

Chapter 17: Migrant workers in long-term care: dynamics and country variations

Part V: Policy issues

Chapter 18: Social investment in care policies

Chapter 19: Subjective quality of care for children and older people and its spatial variation: a comparative investigation

Chapter 20: User participation in health and social care.

Chapter 21: The politics of family and childcare policy reform: do parties still matter?

Part VI: The geography of social care

Chapter 22: Social care policies in East-Asia: reforms between state and market

Chapter 23: Care for older people in Canada's resilient liberal welfare regime

Chapter 24: Childcare policy in the liberal welfare states of North America

Chapter 25: Childcare policies in South America: the persistence of selectivity and maternalism in care services expansion

Chapter 26: Alike but different? Care for children and older people in the Nordic caring states

Chapter 27: Common trends or diverging paths? Social care policies in ECEC and LTC in England and Scotland since devolution

Chapter 28: Social care policies in conservative welfare states

Chapter 29: Limits to growth of familialism? The evolution of care systems in Southern Europe

Chapter 30: Transformation of care regimes in Central Eastern Europe: the case of Croatia and the Czech Republic

Part VII: Outcomes

Chapter 31: Who will still need me, who will still feed me, when I'm 64? Inequalities in long-term care

Chapter 32: Unmet needs and care poverty

Chapter 33: Long-term care systems and their pandemic preparedness: lessons from COVID-19

Chapter 34: Early childhood education and care in times of COVID-19

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-83910-369-8

1-03-537881-7

9781035378814

OCLC:

1570385833