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Transforming Care

Series Editors: Costanzo Ranci, Polytechnic University of Milan, and Tine Rostgaard, Stockholm University and Roskilde University

As care and care work have been thrust into the international spotlight, the increased need for empirical, theoretical and methodological investigation into social care and care policy and practice has been revealed.

Addressing social care and care policy and practice at an international level, this timely new series provides a crucial platform for scholars researching early childhood care, care for adults with disabilities and long-term care for frail older people. The series will consider four dimensions of social care:

the institutional setting of care systems and policy;
care arrangements and practices;
social and policy innovation for care services and arrangements;
formal and informal care work.

This series is linked to the Transforming Care Network, which is open for researchers into care.

Call for proposals

The Series Editors welcome proposals for books that represent empirical and theoretical contributions on social care at a global level. Proposals from disciplines of social policy, political science, economics, sociology, social work, anthropology and ethnography are encouraged.

They particularly welcome books focusing on the following themes in care policy and governance:

Institutional setting and public regulation of care systems and care policy
Governance of care
Changing ideologies and cultural ideas on care
Care policy funding and affordability
Public or private arrangements and the role of non-profit and /or for-profit organisations
Marketisation and privatisation of care
Care and work reconciliation
Inclusion and selection criteria, quality of care
Care arrangements
Caregiving
Organisation of care services
Cash for care
ECEC services, childcare benefits, care leaves
Long-term care services and cash benefits
Care services and cash benefits for the care of people with disability
Changes in care and caring organisations
Working conditions of care workers
Migrant care workers
New technologies
Welfare mix and role of civil society in care policy
New theoretical and methodological perspectives on care policy
The impact of COVID-19 on care policy and practices

If you would like to discuss a proposal, please direct your email to the Series Editors and, if desired, the Commissioning Editor at Policy Press:

Costanzo Ranci, costanzo.ranci@polimi.it
Tine Rostgaard, tine.rostgaard@socarb.su.se; tiro@ruc.dk
Isobel Bainton, Commissioning Editor, isobel.bainton@bristol.ac.uk

Editorial Advisory Board

Karina Batthyany Dighiero, University of the Republic, Uruguay
Teppo Kröger, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
August Oesterle, Vienna University of Business, Austria
Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Hamburg University, Germany
Marta Szebehely, Stockholm University, Sweden
Hildegard Theobald, Vechta University, Germany
Barbara Da Roit, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

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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

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.

Unpaid Work in Nursing Homes

Flexible Boundaries

Edited by Pat Armstrong

Drawing on a range of international research projects, this book documents a broad spectrum of unpaid work performed by residents, relatives, volunteers and staff in nursing homes. It provides insights which will be critical in planning for nursing home care post-pandemic.

Reablement in Long-Term Care for Older People

International Perspectives and Future Directions

Edited by Tine Rostgaard, John Parsons and Hanne Tuntland

This book introduces reablement, a radical new integrated care approach which seeks to empower older people to regain and maintain functioning and independence.

A Care Crisis in the Nordic Welfare States?

Care Work, Gender Equality and Welfare State Sustainability

Edited by Lise Lotte Hansen, Hanne Marlene Dahl and Laura Horn

Academic experts review the impact of neoliberal politics and ideology on the status of care work in Nordic countries. They explore different understandings of the care crisis, the consequences for gender equality and the long-term sustainability of the Nordic welfare states.