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Hildegard Theobald

Long-Term Care: Sweden and Japan Compared

by Yayoi Saito and Hildegard Theobald

Since the 1980s, long-term care policies in many Western countries have been considerably restructured, with strong impact on both care users and care workers. Countries have often borrowed policy approaches from one another. Although long-term care programs in Sweden and Japan were established within the framework of different welfare systems and ideas of family responsibilities, the Swedish approach to long-term care played a significant role in the development...

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