Long-Term Care and Older People in Western Europe

Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic
This edited volume examines the responses of long-term care homes for older people in Western Europe to the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so, it highlights the institutional, organisational and management challenges facing care homes, both in continuing to provide services to an increasingly ageing population and in future public health crises.

Based on a comparative study covering 15 Western European countries, this edited volume examines the responses of long-term care homes for older people to the COVID-19 pandemic.

It analyses the preparedness of governments and residences and the structural weaknesses revealed and exacerbated by the crisis, such as staff shortages, the precariousness of employment in the sector, and the deficient coordination between the health and caring sectors.

By examining the governance structures of the care home sector and their performance before and during the crisis, the book highlights the institutional, organisational, and management challenges facing care homes, both in continuing to provide services to an increasingly ageing population and in the event of future public health crises.

Contributor: Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes (Edited by), Eloísa del Pino (Edited by), Roberta Perna (Contributions by), Luis Moreno Fernández (Contributions by), Monika Riedel (Contributions by), Christoph Stegner (Contributions by), Caroline Glendinning (Contributions by), Tyyne Ylinen (Contributions by), Vera Ylinen (Contributions by), Laura Kalliomaa-Puha (Contributions by), Satu Ylinen (Contributions by), Claude Martin (Contributions by), Sara Burke (Contributions by), Blanche Le Bihan (Contributions by), Thomas Gerlinger (Contributions by), Eduard Klukas (Contributions by), Caspar Lückenbach (Contributions by), Phillip Florian Schmidt (Contributions by), Costis Prouskas (Contributions by), Michael Goudoumas (Contributions by), Katharine Schulmann (Contributions by), Virpi Timonen (Contributions by), Eimir Hurley (Contributions by), Costanzo Ranci (Contributions by), Marco Arlotti (Contributions by), Stefania Cerea (Contributions by), Cristina Font (Contributions by), Robert Urbé (Contributions by), María Bruquetas-Callejo (Contributions by), Arnaud Campéon (Contributions by), Anita Böcker (Contributions by), Luís Capucha (Contributions by), Alexandre Daniel Calado (Contributions by), Nuno Nunes (Contributions by), Jorge José Hernández-Moreno (Contributions by), Manuel Pereira-Puga (Contributions by), Gibrán Cruz-Martínez (Contributions by), Pär Schön (Contributions by), Lennarth Johansson (Contributions by)

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