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.
1. The challenge of policy integration and the complexity of care homes
responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe - Eloķsa 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 peoples 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 - Marķa Bruquetas and Anita Böcker
13. Portugal: structural weaknesses of nursing homes network exposed by the
pandemic - Luķs Capucha, Alexandre Daniel Calado and Nuno Nunes
14. Long-term care for older people during the COVID-19 pandemic in
decentralised Spain - Jorge Hernįndez-Moreno, Roberta Perna, Manuel
Pereira-Puga and Gibrįn Cruz-Martķnez
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 - Eloķsa del Pino and Francisco
Javier Moreno-Fuentes
Eloķsa 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).
