Integrative elderly care model as a part of a changing long-term care and welfare state in Slovakia

Šolcová, Jana, 1984-

Integrative elderly care model as a part of a changing long-term care and welfare state in Slovakia / Jana Šolcová, Andrea Seberíni, Miroslava Tokovská. -- The aim of this article is to describe and discuss the key challenges of social and healthcare services in Slovakia, focusing on the Integrative Elderly Care Model as part of a changing welfare state. It also examines the opportunities and challenges related to the transformation of community-based social and healthcare services. The Slovak welfare state has undergone several revisions during the last decade; so too has the elderly care sector, which is a combination of public and non-government organisations. Elderly citizens, however, remain in a precarious situation. The trend toward marketisation and re-familiarisation of elderly care ‘go towards the EU average’, indicating an increase in public social expenditure directed towards aging.

In Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala : RCIS. -- Iași : Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, 2022. -- ISSN 1583-3410. -- ISSN 1584-5397. -- Vol. 77 (2022), pp. 149-161