EUROPEAN PAPERS ON THE NEW WELFARE

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Editorial

The Elderly between the Needs for Care and Active Ageing
Tiziana Tesauro and Luca Pianelli

Aging of the Elderly: An Intragenerational Funding Approach to Long-term Care
Susan St. John and Yung-Ping Chen

Costs of Political Intermediation and Sustainability of the European Social Model in Health Care: the Dutch Example
Giulio Ercolessi

Sustainability and Adequacy of Pensions in EU countries: Synthesis from a Cross-national Perspective
Asghar Zaidi

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1. Introduction
Older men and women have the same rights as everyone else: we are all born equal and this does not change as we grow older. Even so, older people’s rights are mostly invisible under international law.
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The complex set of social changes in Central and Eastern European countries (CEE) which include the transformation of political, economic and welfare systems is generally named “the transition period”. In Slovenia these changes started in 1991 with the country attaining independence and continued with thorough changes to the welfare system. Read More

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Securing pension coverage and adequacy for nurses raises several basic challenges and policy implications for pension systems, for individual nurses, nurses’ professional associations and health care trade unions. Read More

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Improving the quality of social and healthcare services; positively influencing population’s health and quality of life; controlling and restructuring health expenditure in the technology sector. These are the daily challenges faced by the engineers and technicians who work within the twenty companies of the ITAL TBS Group. Read More

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The inexorable growth of our ageing population has led to a rise in the global prevalence of dementia syndrome. The word dementia, coming from the Latin de meaning “apart” and mens from the genitive mentis meaning “mind”, is a descriptive term, describing the pattern of symptoms of brain disorder which involve the progressive damage and eventual death of brain cells. Read More

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The purpose of this paper is to analyse the differences and similarities between 16 European Member States1 with regard to welfare systems, thereby defining possible groups of homogeneous countries. The model analyses social protection expenditure, the employment characteristics of the social sector and some variables concerning child and long term care. Read More

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The challenges to financial sustainability that EU countries face are well documented, and the focus is justifiably on policy reforms that are addressing them. But, the impact of reforms now on the design of pension systems and incomes of future retirees is less clearly delineated, and this paper addresses this issue. Read More

1. The European Social Model can be Safeguarded only by Agreeing to Reshape it

Europe will not emerge from the Great Crisis to take up where it left off. Like it or not, and even if politicians, especially in Italy with few exceptions, do their best to reassure and treat their voters as small children from whom it is always advisable to hide the ugly truth (and voters do little to have somebody tell them), it would certainly not be possible to revive the old industrial society, its certainties, its rhythms, its stable and standardised prospects. Read More

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The persistent gains in longevity at older ages, “aging of the elderly,” along with the imminent retirement of large baby-boom cohorts, imply that new ways will be needed to pay for the costs associated with old age. Read More