Long Term Care

Faced with the problems associated with an ageing society, many European countries have adopted innovative policies to achieve a better balance between the need to expand social care and the imperative to curb public spending. Although embedded within peculiar national traditions, these new policies share some characteristics:

• a tendency to combine monetary transfers to families with the provision of in-kind services

• the establishment of a new social care market based on competition
  

• the empowerment of users through their increased purchasing power

• the introduction of funding measures intended to foster care-giving through family networks. The Laboratory has been engaged for several years in research on this subject, which has been treated from different perspectives in different projects

Pubblicazioni:

Ranci C. (2008), Tutelare la non autosufficienza. Una proposta di riforma dell’indennità di accompagnamento, Roma, Carocci.

Ranci C. (2008), “Restructuring the welfare state: reforms in long-term care in Western European countries”, (con E. Pavolini), Journal of European Social Policy, vol. 3, pp. 246-259.

Ranci C., (2008), “Crisis and transformation of the Italian care model: beyond familism?” (con E. Pavolini), paper presentato alla conferenza “Transforming elderly care at local, National and international levels”, Copenhagen, 26-28 June. 

Costa G. (a cura di) (2007), Politiche per la non autosufficienza in età anziana. Attori, risorse e logiche a partire dal caso lombardo, Roma, Carocci.

Ranci C. (a cura di) (2001), L’assistenza agli anziani in Italia e in Europa. Verso la costruzione di un mercato sociale dei servizi, Milano, Franco Angeli

Working papers – convegni e seminari:

Ranci C.(2011), Reforms in long-term care policies in EU countries: an interpretation (con E. Pavolini), 9th Annual ESPAnet Conference, Valencia, 8-10 settembre. Scarica il programma della conferenza