Informal empire is less a settled concept than vexing category. Scholars disagree on the complicity of individuals, extent government oversight, and even whether informal in fact imperial. I argue that best approached through lens paradox. It system with no centralized authority yet which gave Britain powerful role formation Latin America. relied continuing independence American nations comprom...

Approaches to improving quality of longterm care services People depending on long-term care belong to the most vulnerable group in society. Some will need help, assistance and support for the rest of their lives. Yet, little is known and much has been conjectured about the extent to which long-term care (services) actually meet the needs of dependent people and support a self-determined life. ...

Objectives Aging is pushing states to rethink long-term care policies in several dimensions. This study aims to characterize the reality of dependent older people regarding their demographic and health characteristics, to describe their informal carers and understand the availability of informal care. Methods A cross-sectional study was developed in Portugal in 2013. Descriptive statistical a...

BACKGROUND Knowledge of the configuration and costs of community rehabilitation and support for people with long-term neurological conditions (LTNCs) is needed to inform future service development and resource allocation. In a multicentre prospective cohort study evaluating community service delivery during the year post-discharge from in-patient neuro-rehabilitation, a key objective was to det...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate how the societal perspective is conceptualized in economic evaluations and to assess how intersectoral costs and benefits (ICBs), that is, the costs and benefits pertaining to sectors outside the healthcare sector, impact their results. METHODS Based on a search in July 2015 using PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, and PsychINFO, a systematic literatur...

The involvement of governments in the home care sector strongly varies across Europe. This study aims to explain the differences through the conditions for the involvement of informal care and governments in society; wealth and the demographic structure. As this study could combine qualitative data and quantitative data analyses, it could consider larger patterns than previous studies which wer...

This article empirically examines the labour market participation of Italian women, with special emphasis on the role of intergenerational family links. Elderly relatives may play an important role in explaining the work patterns of women. First, they discourage the work participation of women by requiring unpaid help; secondly, they also provide household services such as child care, favouring...

BACKGROUND There has been a relative lack of research examing the distribution of care to elderly dependent people in Spain. The aim of this paper is to analyse how formal and informal care is provided to elderly dependent people in Spain and to assess the socio-economic conditions in which the different kinds of care emerge. METHODS This study is based on a sample of the elderly dependent po...