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Long-Term Care in Spain: Between Family Care Tradition and the Public Recognition of Social Risk

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The aim of this chapter provides answers, from an institutional perspective, to key questions concerning the transition in Spain from a residual LTC system, centered almost exclusively on the family, to a public one of universal coverage, which began in January of 2007. The chapter analyses why the reform of LTC was necessary, the actors and coalitions that lead the reform, how the reform was carried out and main effects during the first years of its application. The chapter shows the problems and difficulties of building an universal mix care LTC model from a social assistance and family Mediterranean one.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    We understand social policy Europeanization to be the growing influence of EU social protection and social inclusion policies and the LTC in its design, as shown in the NAPinclusion and the Joint Report from the Lisbon 2000 Strategy onwards.

  2. 2.

    LAPAD: Act 39/2006, of 14 December, On the Promotion of Personal Autonomy and Care for Dependent Persons.

  3. 3.

    Social Security contributions for the family or nonprofessional carer are financed by the State and they are taken into consideration in the social insurance records of the carer.

  4. 4.

    Several assessments on Spanish long-term care are at disposal at websites: Asociación Estatal de Directores y Gerentes en Servicios Sociales (2009); Grupo de Expertos (2009); also Rodriguez Cabrero (2009).

  5. 5.

    By LTC European Social Model, we refer to a mix of trends towards universal coverage of dependency risk, decentralisation of management, combination of services and monetary benefits, and the participation of the users in cost financing through copayments.

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Cabrero, G., Gallego, V. (2013). Long-Term Care in Spain: Between Family Care Tradition and the Public Recognition of Social Risk. 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_10

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