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Long-Term Care and Older People in Western Europe

Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic

Edited by Eloísa del Pino and Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes

Published

Jun 1, 2025

Page count

304 pages

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Transforming Care

ISBN

978-1447367284

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Jun 1, 2025

Page count

304 pages

Browse the series

Transforming Care

ISBN

978-1447367307

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Policy Press
Long-Term Care and Older People in Western Europe

Based on a comparative study covering 15 Western European countries, this edited volume examines the responses of long-term cares 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 the 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.

Eloísa del Pino is Senior Researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

F. Javier Moreno-Fuentes is Senior Researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

1. Introduction: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Care Home Sector in Western Europe - Eloísa Del Pino and Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes

Part 1: Residential Care for Older People in the Nordic Countries

2. Care Homes for Older People and the COVID-19 Epidemic in Finland - Laura Kalliomaa-Puha

3. Care Homes for Older People and the COVID-19 Epidemic in Denmark - Tine Rostgaard

4. Care Homes for Older People and the COVID-19 Epidemic in Sweden - Pär Schön and Lennarth Johansson

Part 2: Residential Care for Older People in Corporatist Countries

5. Care Homes for Older People and the COVID-19 Epidemic in Belgium - Jozef Pacolet

6. Care Homes for Older People and the COVID-19 Epidemic in the Netherlands - María Bruquetas and Anita Böcker

7. Care Homes for Older People and the COVID-19 Epidemic in France - Claude Martin, Blanche Le Bihan and Arnaud Campéon

8. Care Homes for Older People and the COVID-19 Epidemic in Luxembourg - Robert Urbé

9. Care Homes for Older People and the COVID-19 Epidemic in Austria - Monika Riedel

10. Care Homes for Older People and the COVID-19 Epidemic in Germany - Thomas Gerlinger, Caspar Lückenbach and Phillip Florian Schmidt

Part 3: Residential Care Sector for Older People in the Anglo-Saxon Countries

11. Care Homes for Older People and the COVID-19 Epidemic in England - Caroline Glendinning

12. Care Homes for Older People and the COVID-19 Epidemic in Ireland - Sara Burke

Part 4: Residential Care Sector for Older People in Sothern European Countries

13. Care Homes for Older People and the COVID-19 Epidemic in Italy - Costanzo Ranci and Marco Arlotti

14. Care Homes for Older People and the COVID-19 Epidemic in Spain - Luis Moreno, Gibrán Cruz-Martínez and Roberta Perna

15. Care Home for Older People and the COVID-19 Epidemic in Greece - Kostis Prouskas

16. Care Homes for Older People and the COVID-19 Epidemic in Portugal - Luis Capucha

17. Comparative Assessment of the Impact of the Pandemic, and the Convergent Future of the Care Home Sector in Europe - EloíSA Del Pino and Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes