Health and long-term care
People who need medical or social care should be able to get it regardless of their income or wealth, without incurring huge costs that would put them and/or their relatives at risk of poverty.
Yet, despite increases in expenditure and population coverage, important inequalities remain in accessing high-quality health care. What’s more, rising demand for long-term care means there are often shortages in provision, high costs and long waiting times.
Confronted with these challenges, care systems have to be reformed, properly resourced and put on a sound financial footing. The Peer Reviews can play an important role for stimulating reform discussions and the exchange good practice in this field.
On the topic
Peer Reviews
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Access to care and health status inequalities in a context of healthcare reform
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Achieving quality long-term care in residential facilities
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Closing the gap - in search for ways to deal with expanding care needs and limited resources
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Alzheimer's and other related diseases: coping with behavioural disorders in the patient's home
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Modernising and activating measures relating to work incapacity
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Ensuring a functioning healthcare system in regions with declining and ageing populations
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Cost containment in the pharmaceutical sector: Innovative approaches to contracting while ensuring fair access to drugs
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Long-term care: How to organise affordable, sustainable long-term care given the constraints of collective versus individual arrangements and responsibilities
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The future of social services of general interest
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Freedom of choice and dignity for the elderly
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Integrated Services in Rehabilitation - On Coordination of Organisation and Financing
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Pathways to social Integration for people with mental health problems: the establishment of social cooperatives in Greece
