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This chapter provides an overview of long-term care policies in CEE. The central–eastern European region has seen major social policy reforms over the past 2 decades. Yet, in contrast with major policy reform in other welfare areas, long-term care did not play any prominent role in social policy debates in CEE in the 1990s and into the 2000s. Policy debates and reform efforts toward a more comprehensive public response to long-term care needs only intensified in the new millennium. This chapter investigates the changes to long-care systems in CEE, with a particular focus on the situation in the Czech Republic, the first CEE country to see the establishment of a novel long-term care system in 2006. The analysis covers a time span of more than 2 decades, starting with the transition from communism to market-oriented democratic systems up until today. It outlines the context for long-term care reform in CEE and identifies commonalities and diversities in the development and the status quo of long-term care in this European region. Apart from describing how the long-term care system has developed over that period, the particular focus of the analysis is on identifying the drivers of reform (or nonreform), in studying the importance of key actors involved in reform processes and in analyzing the impact of the reforms.
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Barvíková, J., Österle, A. (2013). Long-Term Care Reform in Central–Eastern Europe: The Case of the Czech Republic. In: Ranci, C., Pavolini, E. (eds) Reforms in Long-Term Care Policies in Europe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4502-9_12
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