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Building Long-Term Care Services Around the World

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Long-term care is caring for the elderly with physical or mental disabilities. Typically, it can be divided into two main types, which are home-based Care and Residential Care. For home-based care organisations mainly provide a wide range of long-term care services such as personal care, supportive care, specialised nursing care and domestic aid to the elderly at their homes. In contrast, nursing homes are the major long-term care service providers that offer residential care for the elderly. The elderly living in nursing homes generally have more health problems and require “many-to-one” services. This chapter provides the overview, features, and differences of long-term care healthcare policies in various counties.

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  3. Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

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  4. The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

    Valerie TANG

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WU, C.H., LAM, C.H.Y., XHAFA, F., TANG, V., IP, W.H. (2022). Building Long-Term Care Services Around the World. In: Wu, C., Lam, C.H., Xhafa, F., Tang, V., Ip, W. (eds) IoT for Elderly, Aging and eHealth. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 108. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93387-6_3

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