Organizational models and financial mechanisms for ensuring long-term care for the elderly: achievments and outstanding challenges

The article examines the existing mechanisms of adaptation of economically developed countries, especially European countries, to the accelerated change in the structure of the population, including the search for ways to make greater use of the labor potential of older age groups, as well as the opportunities to improve the quality of citizens’ lives in the process of ageing. The achievements and the drawbacks of various national models of social assistance organization are analyzed.

Keywords

active ageing, long-term care, hospital service, in-home care, informal assistance of the relatives

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28.09.2020

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29.09.2020

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GOST	Shestakova E. Organizational models and financial mechanisms for ensuring long-term care for the elderly: achievments and outstanding challenges // Obshchestvo i ekonomika – 2020. – Issue 9 C. 88-105 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://oie.jes.su/S020736760011353-7-1 (circulation date: 22.07.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S020736760011353-7
MLA	Shestakova, Elena "Organizational models and financial mechanisms for ensuring long-term care for the elderly: achievments and outstanding challenges." Obshchestvo i ekonomika 9 (2020):88-105. DOI: 10.31857/S020736760011353-7
APA	Shestakova E. (2020). Organizational models and financial mechanisms for ensuring long-term care for the elderly: achievments and outstanding challenges. Obshchestvo i ekonomika (9), pp.88-105 DOI: 10.31857/S020736760011353-7

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