Active Ageing and Prevention in the Context of Long-Term Care: Policy Brief
The introduction to this Policy Brief explores conceptual meanings of prevention and long-term care in relation to active ageing. Some general European trends and national developments in Austria concerning long-term care as well as related measures of prevention and activation for older people are outlined in the first part of the Policy Brief. The following section critically discusses general social and health policy approaches as well as practice examples in different long-term care settings in Austria. The Policy Brief concludes with a number of recommendations for prevention and active ageing policies targeted specifically for those older people with existing long-term care needs.
Download here:
Active Ageing and Prevention in the Context of Long-Term Care.
Rethinking Concepts and Practices
Source: European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research
Similar entries
- New Perspectives on Evaluation in Palliative Care
- ESRC Seminar Series- Ageing and disability: 'writing in' gender and sexuality
- ILC-UK :Pensions Reform after the Election: Can Consensus be Maintained?
- UK Older People’s Day
- New ageing populations: Calamity or Eucatastrophe?
- New Arts Council bursary on arts and older people
- 'Sustainability and adequacy of pensions in EU countries: A cross-national perspective'.
- Paying for Long-term Care: European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research
- Call for abstracts: All-Ireland Social Medicine Meeting
- The Economics of Preventative Health in an Ageing Society- ILC-UK
