Organisation of care
- Unemployed Chilean women provide care to adults and improve the human capital of informal providers
- D. Bravo; E. Puentes / Department of Economics, Universidad de Chile, 2012
- The provision of elderly care is an issue of increasing importance in Latin American countries. This paper analyses the relationship between providing informal care to adults and labour outcomes in Chile - a middle-income Latin Americ...
- How to meet future demand for long term care services for the elderly in the new EU member states
- Europe and Central Asia, World Bank, 2011
- Experience from OECD countries shows long term care (LTC) for the elderly is expensive and generates financial burden for individuals and households. The increasing “good practice” in OECD countries is to promote a p...
- The worldwide costs of dementia are set to soar
- A. Wimo; M. Prince / Alzheimer's Disease International, 2010
- Aound 0.5% of the world’s total population currently live with dementia. The total estimated worldwide costs of dementia are US$604 billion in 2010. This report argues that these figures are a great cause for concern. The author...
- Improving hospital services in Indonesia
- A. Utarini; G. Schmidt-Ehry; P. Hill / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 2009
- Improved hospital management in Indonesia, in addition to quality services within a functioning health system, is crucial to reduce mortality, especially for women and children, but also for all other kind of emergencies and major hea...
- Provision of home and community-based care for the disabled elderly in Israel
- H. Schmid / Paul Baerwald School of Social Work, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2009
- Concerns about the implications of population ageing and the size of the elderly population with disabilities led Israel to began to implement its Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) Law fully in 1988. Even though Israel is re...
- Mechanisms for effective dementia care treatments
- M.J. Prince; D. Acosta; E. Castro-Costa; J. Jackson; K.S. Shaji / Public Library of Science Medicine, 2009
- Two-thirds of people with dementia live in low- and middle income countries (LMICs), where there are few services available and levels of awareness is low. This paper focuses on the effective management of dementia in LMICs, rev...
- The Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG)
- Te Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG) is a multidisciplinary research centre on ageing at NUI Galway. ICSG focuses on research, education and training in the field of social gerontology in Ireland and internationally. There is a specific research focus on rural gerontology, the economics of ageing and on technology and ageing.
- How to ensure that the entitlements of both older people and migrant carers are upheld
- K. Walsh; E. O’Shea / The Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, 2009
- The proportion of migrant carers caring for Irish older people has increased over recent years, reflecting a broader global trend in care worker migration and thus, a highly competitive global market for migrant carers. How...
- Does population ageing inevitably lead to significantly higher health care expenditure?
- B. Rechel; Y. Doyle; E. Grundy / World Health Organization, 2009
- All countries in Europe face ageing populations. This review examines the impact of ageing populations on health systems, demonstrating that it will give rise to a number of challenges. However, the paper deems that much of this impac...
- Dementia needs to become a priority on the world health agenda
- M. Prince (ed); J. Jackson (ed) / Alzheimer's Disease International, 2009
- This Report gives an overview and analysis of the prevalence and impact of Alzheimer's disease, based on systematic review identifying studies in 21 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) world regions. It then offers a framework of rec...
- Unemployed Chilean women provide care to adults and improve the human capital of informal providers
- D. Bravo; E. Puentes / Department of Economics, Universidad de Chile, 2012
- The provision of elderly care is an issue of increasing importance in Latin American countries. This paper analyses the relationship between providing informal care to adults and labour outcomes in Chile - a middle-income Latin Americ...
- How to meet future demand for long term care services for the elderly in the new EU member states
- Europe and Central Asia, World Bank, 2011
- Experience from OECD countries shows long term care (LTC) for the elderly is expensive and generates financial burden for individuals and households. The increasing “good practice” in OECD countries is to promote a p...
- The worldwide costs of dementia are set to soar
- A. Wimo; M. Prince / Alzheimer's Disease International, 2010
- Aound 0.5% of the world’s total population currently live with dementia. The total estimated worldwide costs of dementia are US$604 billion in 2010. This report argues that these figures are a great cause for concern. The author...
- Improving hospital services in Indonesia
- A. Utarini; G. Schmidt-Ehry; P. Hill / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 2009
- Improved hospital management in Indonesia, in addition to quality services within a functioning health system, is crucial to reduce mortality, especially for women and children, but also for all other kind of emergencies and major hea...
- Provision of home and community-based care for the disabled elderly in Israel
- H. Schmid / Paul Baerwald School of Social Work, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2009
- Concerns about the implications of population ageing and the size of the elderly population with disabilities led Israel to began to implement its Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) Law fully in 1988. Even though Israel is re...
- Mechanisms for effective dementia care treatments
- M.J. Prince; D. Acosta; E. Castro-Costa; J. Jackson; K.S. Shaji / Public Library of Science Medicine, 2009
- Two-thirds of people with dementia live in low- and middle income countries (LMICs), where there are few services available and levels of awareness is low. This paper focuses on the effective management of dementia in LMICs, rev...
- How to ensure that the entitlements of both older people and migrant carers are upheld
- K. Walsh; E. O’Shea / The Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, 2009
- The proportion of migrant carers caring for Irish older people has increased over recent years, reflecting a broader global trend in care worker migration and thus, a highly competitive global market for migrant carers. How...
- Does population ageing inevitably lead to significantly higher health care expenditure?
- B. Rechel; Y. Doyle; E. Grundy / World Health Organization, 2009
- All countries in Europe face ageing populations. This review examines the impact of ageing populations on health systems, demonstrating that it will give rise to a number of challenges. However, the paper deems that much of this impac...
- Dementia needs to become a priority on the world health agenda
- M. Prince (ed); J. Jackson (ed) / Alzheimer's Disease International, 2009
- This Report gives an overview and analysis of the prevalence and impact of Alzheimer's disease, based on systematic review identifying studies in 21 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) world regions. It then offers a framework of rec...
- Family solidarity still evident in Thailand despite social changes promoting out-migration
- Z.S. Zimmer; J.E. Knodel / Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2009
- Both migration and population ageing are increasingly occurring in Thailand. The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an association exists between health of older parents and return migration of children in rural...
- The Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG)
- Te Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG) is a multidisciplinary research centre on ageing at NUI Galway. ICSG focuses on research, education and training in the field of social gerontology in Ireland and internationally. There is a specific research focus on rural gerontology, the economics of ageing and on technology and ageing.
- Building a society for all ages, UK Government
- Building a Society for All Ages (launched 2009) is the UK Government’s strategy of reforms to pensions and health systems for older people. Website includes full text of the strategy, implementation plan and supporting documents.
- LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST)
- The Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) is working to expedite the development, evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies that will transform the ageing experience. It is an international coalition of more than 400 technology companies, aging-services organizations, businesses, research universities and government representatives working together under the auspices of...
- Political and Social Economy of Care (UNRISD)
- This project is undertaking comparative research on the multiple institutions of care (households and families; states; markets; and the not-for-profit sector), their gender composition and dynamics, and their implications for poverty and social rights of citizenship. It seeks to undertake empirical research on the care sector in different developing regions and to connect the analysis to some of...
- PHI
- Advocacy and policy advisory organisation covering carework. PHI works to improve the lives of people who need home or residential care by improving the lives of the workers who provide that care. Our goal is to ensure caring, stable relationships between consumers and workers, so that both may live with dignity, respect and independence. PHI’s programme activities develop recruitment, train...
- Health Systems 20/20
- Integration approaches to health
- Annals of Long-Term Care
- Long-term care research
- Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B)
- International centre for health research based in Bangladesh
