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Elder Care Systems: Policy Transfer and Europeanization

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Since the 1990s, demographic and social changes in a situation of welfare state constraints have challenged prevalent elder care approaches in many Western countries and resulted not only in the restructuring of existing elder care systems but also in the creation of new systems. In Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries the fundamental shift of most welfare systems since the 1990s led to the advent of home-based elder care, which is a rather new phenomenon in this part of Europe.

Acknowledgements: The authors would like to thank Alfio Cerami, Pieter Vanhuysse, the other authors of the book and Frank Bönker for valuable comments on an earlier draft. It goes without saying that whatever faults remain are entirely our own responsibility.

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© 2009 Hildegard Theobald and Kristine Kern

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Theobald, H., Kern, K. (2009). Elder Care Systems: Policy Transfer and Europeanization. In: Cerami, A., Vanhuysse, P. (eds) Post-Communist Welfare Pathways. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245808_9

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