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Informal Care of Dependent Older People—Support Services and Funding Schemes

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This chapter is dealing with aspects regarding informal care of dependent older people. Based on the analysis of the information obtained from the good practice and the informal care regulatory status in Romania, the authors proposed a set of support services and funding schemes that could be implemented in our country as follows: care leave and care allowance; palliative care leave; prolonged care leave; the employment of a personal assistant under the terms of the Framework Law no. 153/2017; allowance for long-term care; pension for severe dependence; flexible working arrangements for the informal caregiver; the possibility of early retirement up to 2 years before reaching the standard retirement age, without penalizing the amount of pension rights; respite care. The methodology was based on the good practices research, using qualitative and quantitative information from bouth primary and secondary sources of information.

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The work presented in this chapter has been supported by The Ministry of Labour and Social Justice, through The Research and Development Programme for the period 2018–2020 (according to Ordin nr. 2042/2017 al ministrului muncii și justiției sociale privind aprobarea Planului sectorial de cercetare dezvoltare al Ministerului Muncii și Justiției Sociale pentru perioada 2018-2020)—Contract No. 3209/20.08.2018.

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    Luise Mladen-Macovei & Andra-Bertha Sănduleasa

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  1. Department of Sociology and Social Work, Faculty of Philosophy and Social-Political Sciences, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Iaşi, Romania

    Daniela Soitu

  2. Department of Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Military Technology, University of Defence, Brno, Czech Republic

    Šárka Hošková-Mayerová

  3. Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Caserta, Italy

    Fabrizio Maturo

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Mladen-Macovei, L., Sănduleasa, AB. (2021). Informal Care of Dependent Older People—Support Services and Funding Schemes. In: Soitu, D., Hošková-Mayerová, Š., Maturo, F. (eds) Decisions and Trends in Social Systems. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 189. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69094-6_17

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