2.3. Long Term Care (LTC)

Bibliographic Records

INTERLINKS: Governance and finance of LTC across Europe.Overview report

This INTERLINKS report addresses the difficult issues of how LTC is governed and financed in a variety of EU countries. It underlines the problems of comparing widely different systems, concepts and data on LTC systems and discusses ways of integrating

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

Informal Care Provision in Europe: Regulation and Profile of Providers.

This report investigates regulations for the provision of informal care in 21 member states of the European Union. We focus on the comparison of public support for informal care, and compare in detail the monetary benefits that can be used

Nurse teachers’ and student nurses’ attitudes towards caring older people in a province of Greece

Background: Few studies have attempted to examine nurse teachers’ attitudes toward older people. Attitudes towards older people are considered as an important factor in their care. The aim of this study was to examine the attitudes of nursing students and

Association between siesta (daytime sleep), dietary patterns and the presence of metabolic syndrome in elderly living in the Mediterranean area (MEDIS study): The moderating effect of gender

Several lifestyle parameters including diet, physical activity and sleep were associated in isolation with the presence of Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) in adults, to date there is a paucity of studies which evaluated their combined role in aging populations and especially

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

Evaluation of current health and welfare provision