del Pino / Javier Moreno-Fuentes Long-Term Care and Older People in Western Europe

Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-4473-6730-7
Verlag: Policy Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Transforming Care

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

del Pino, Eloísa

Javier Moreno-Fuentes, Francisco

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Kranken-, Alten- und Behindertenhilfe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The challenge of policy integration and the complexity of care homes responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe - Eloísa del Pino and Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes

2. Welfare regimes and long-term care in the ‘Old Continent’ - Roberta Perna and Luis Moreno

3. Muddling through after a strong start: tackling the COVID-19 pandemic in Austrian nursing homes - Monika Riedel and Christoph Stegner

4. Lessons not learned: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the residential care sector in England - Caroline Glendinning

5. Protecting older people’s lives, forgetting about their other rights? Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in the care home sector in Finland - Tyyne Ylinen, Vera Ylinen, Laura Kalliomaa-Puha, and Statu Ylinen

6. Impact of the French top-down management of the COVID-19 pandemic on residential care homes - Arnaud Campéon, Blanche Le Bihan, and Claude Martin

7. Large capacities in health care: insufficient protection of vulnerable groups in Germany - Caspar Lückenbach, Eduard Klukas, Phillip Florian Schmidt, and Thomas Gerlinger

8. The Greek long term care sector against COVID-19: an effort for excellence - Costis Prouskas and Michael Goudoumas

9. Long-term care of older people in residential care settings in Ireland during waves 1 and 2 of the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons (still to be) learned - Sara Burke, Katharine Schulmann, Virpi Timonen and Eimir Hurley

10. Neglecting nursing homes: the management of the pandemic crisis in Italy - C. Ranci, M. Arlotti and S. Cerea

11. Government response to the COVID-19 pandemic in long-term care residences for older people: preparedness, responses, and challenges for the future in Luxembourg - Robert Urbé and Cristina Font

12. The COVID-19 crisis as a ‘hospital issue’: the impact of COVID-19 measures on Dutch nursing homes - María Bruquetas and Anita Böcker

13. Portugal: structural weaknesses of nursing homes network exposed by the pandemic - Luís Capucha, Alexandre Daniel Calado and Nuno Nunes

14. Long-term care for older people during the COVID-19 pandemic in decentralised Spain - Jorge Hernández-Moreno, Roberta Perna, Manuel Pereira-Puga and Gibrán Cruz-Martínez

15. Swedish long-term care for older people in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic - Lennarth Johansson and Pär Schön

16. Cross-case analysis and conclusion - Eloísa del Pino and Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes

Über Autor(innen)

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

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

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

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