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Health Systems and Long-Term Care for Older People in Europe: Modelling the Interface and Links Between Prevention, Rehabilitation, Quality of Services and Informal Care

The objective of this project is to construct and validate a general model to describe and analyse long-term care (LTC) systems for older people from a European perspective. The particular aspects of the different emerging national models that currently address long-term care needs in Europe are used to show how the links to health care services, the quality of the LTC services, the incentives for prevention and rehabilitations, and the support for informal carers can be governed and financed to enhance structures, processes and outcomes of LTC systems.
Based on the assumption that LTC systems in Europe have only started to develop at the boundaries of health and social care, the project focuses on the elaboration of concepts, indicators and models for policies and practices at the interfaces and links between health and LTC systems. Good practice determinants are identified and validated across countries.
The project associates 16 research teams in 14 European countries.

Publication issue du projet :

• Gobet, P., & Emilsson, T. (2013). Integration as ‘Boundary Redefinition Process’. In K. Leichsenring, J. Billing & H. Nies (Eds.), Long-Term Care in Europe: Improving Policy and Practice (pp. 118-141). Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan.