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      Pensando en políticas de cuidados de larga duración para América Latina Translated title: Thinking about long-term care policies for Latin America

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          América Latina envejece. Lo hace muy rápido, en condiciones poco saludables y con bajos niveles de ingreso. En las próximas décadas aumentará vertiginosamente el número de personas mayores que no podrán realizar las actividades de su vida diaria por sí mismas. Este fenómeno ya lo han enfrentado los países ricos en las últimas tres décadas pero, a diferencia de ellos, la región no dispone ni de los recursos ni de los sistemas de protección social de esos países. Pensar y planificar políticas de salud asociadas a este fenómeno debería ser una prioridad de los gobiernos latinoamericanos. En el presente trabajo se define en qué consisten estos cuidados, qué modelos han desarrollado los países ricos y a qué costo. Posteriormente se analiza la situación de América Latina y se propone una serie de discusiones para abordar en el futuro cercano.

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          Latin America is aging. The process is occurring quickly and in unhealthy conditions with low levels of income. The number of older people who can no longer perform their daily activities will dramatically increase in the coming decades. Developed countries have already been facing this phenomenon over the last three decades, but Latin America has neither the resources nor the social protection systems of these countries. Formulating and planning health policies associated with this phenomenon should be a priority of the governments of Latin America. This paper defines what these care policies are, the models of care rich countries have developed, and the cost of such models. The situation in Latin America is then analyzed and conclusions and a series of discussions to address in the near future are proposed.

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          Similar and yet so different: cash-for-care in six European countries' long-term care policies.

          In response to increasing care needs, the reform or development of long-term care (LTC) systems has become a prominent policy issue in all European countries. Cash-for-care schemes-allowances instead of services provided to dependents-represent a key policy aimed at ensuring choice, fostering family care, developing care markets, and containing costs. A detailed analysis of policy documents and regulations, together with a systematic review of existing studies, was used to investigate the differences among six European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden). The rationale and evolution of their various cash-for-care schemes within the framework of their LTC systems also were explored. While most of the literature present cash-for-care schemes as a common trend in the reforms that began in the 1990s and often treat them separately from the overarching LTC policies, this article argues that the policy context, timing, and specific regulation of the new schemes have created different visions of care and care work that in turn have given rise to distinct LTC configurations. A new typology of long-term care configurations is proposed based on the inclusiveness of the system, the role of cash-for-care schemes and their specific regulations, as well as the views of informal care and the care work that they require. © 2010 Milbank Memorial Fund. Published by Wiley Periodicals Inc.
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                Salud colectiva
                Salud colect.
                Universidad Nacional de Lanús (Lanús, Buenos Aires, Argentina )
                1851-8265
                December 2015
                : 11
                : 4
                : 485-496
                Affiliations
                [01] orgnameUniversidad Pablo de Olavide orgdiv1Departamento de Economía, Métodos Cuantitativos e Historia Económica España
                Article
                S1851-82652015000400003
                10.18294/sc.2015.785
                6aba3bfd-9afa-426e-a15e-c96d77e6c9ef

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                : 03 August 2015
                : 18 April 2015
                : 20 August 2015
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                Políticas Públicas de Salud,Cuidados a Largo Plazo,Envejecimiento de la Población,Financiación de la Atención de la Salud,América Latina,Health Public Policy,Long-Term Care,Demographic Aging,Healthcare Financing,Latin America

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