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Dignity and wellbeing of older persons in need of care

This toolkit is aimed at policymakers and practitioners who would like to evolve towards ensuring the wellbeing and dignity of older persons in need of care. It shows how they can adopt a rights-based approach in long-term care policies and

Bridging knowledge to develop an action plan for integrated care for chronic diseases in Greece

This article offers a chronic care disease management model that applies primarily at local municipal level. Chronic diseases threaten relatively more the ‘memorandum and peripheral’ Eurozone countries (i.e., Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland), which were under heavy recession after the

«Pensions, health and long-term care» an update report of 2014

Evaluation of current health and welfare provision

Definition of a new type of tourism niche—The geriatric tourism

In this paper, a new type of tourism, the geriatric tourism, will be initiated for further research as a separate niche from health, medical, or wellness tourism, and it will be proven that the most relevant active and healthy ageing

The 2018 Ageing Report Underlying Assumptions & Projection Methodologies

This report has been prepared as part of the mandate the Economic and Financial Affairs (ECOFIN) Council gave to the Economic Policy Committee (EPC) in 2015 to update and further deepen its common exercise of age-related expenditure projections, on the

MC COVID-19: Mechanisms of Coordination between healthcare policy and other public policy sectors to speed up the response to the Coronavirus crises: a case study of the relationship between the health system and institutional care for the elderly in

The study analyses the way in which state policy and sectorial initiatives and policies operated to limit the immediate effects of the Covid 19 epidemic in Greece during the 1st wave of the pandemic with a particular focus on Residential

August 2020 Interim EuGMS guidance to prepare European Long‑Term Care Facilities for COVID‑19

Purpose: The European Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS) is launching a second interim guidance whose aim is to prevent the entrance and spread of COVID-19 into long-term care facilities (LTCFs). Methods: The EuGMS gathered experts to propose a guide of measures

Typology of Social States and Long-Term Care. Greece in relationship to Europe

Modern Social State structure is described through various typologies, most important of which are those of Titmuss, Espring-Andersen and Ferrera. On the whole, a liberal, a conservative, a social-democratic and a “mixed” model of Social State can be distinguished, with

Long-term care workforce: Employment and working conditions,

A full useful discussion on the labour force in long term care work. This report draws together evidence from the literature, responses from the Network of Eurofound Correspondents to Eurofound’s questionnaire, received between February and August 2020, and EU survey

Elderly Care Units in Greece: Management of the CoViD-19 Pandemic Crisis

The CoViD-19 pandemic, caused by the new coronavirus SARS-Cov-2, has brought the Long-Term Care Sector (LTC) into an unprecedented emergency situation. Statistics from various European countries show that high rates of CoViD-19-related deaths occur in elderly people living in LTC