In diesem Forschungsprojekt zur Versorgung von Langzeitpflege in Deutschland werden fünf Perspektiven zu Personalmangel, Pflegekapazitäten sowie Auswirkungen auf Pflegequalität in Pflegeheimen beleuchtet. Die erste Perspektive betrachtet demografische, sozio-ökonomische und strukturelle...

Background Individuals receiving geriatric care are often frail and afflicted with multiple chronic conditions demanding care from several medical disciplines, and from several different care providing units across the health systems. Objective To explore the six-month service utilization and...

In this paper, we use the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), complemented with register data on the share of the foreign population in the European regions, to examine the effects of migration on the level of informal care provided by children to their senior parents....

Studies into the ethical aspects of consumption tend to focus on a limited class of actions that are explicitly understood as "ethical consumption". The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic provided a context in which other ethical issues and questions of whom we should care for first, and how, suddenly and...

The report focuses on three main categories of LTC workers: personal care workers, nurses and domestic care workers. It does not cover either informal carers, i.e. those in the social environment of the person in need of care, including a partner, child, parent or other person, who provide care...

One of the aims of the European care strategy is to improve the working conditions for long-term care (LTC) workers - to be understood here as professionals who provide formal LTC, which can take the form of home care, community-based care (e.g. day centres for respite care) or residential care....