ENEPRI Publications
Below are links to the most recent publications related to the ENEPRI network. Research findings related to the network are currently disseminated through three channels hosted at ceps.eu:
- ENEPRI Working Papers constitute dissemination to a wider public of research undertaken and already published by ENEPRI partner member institutes on their own account.
- ENEPRI Research Reports consist of papers presenting the findings and conclusions of research undertaken in the context of ENEPRI research projects.
- ENEPRI Policy briefs present the policy implications of research carried out by the ENEPRI partner institutes and published elsewhere in full, often as an ENEPRI Research Report or an ENEPRI Working Paper.
Most recent publications
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Author(s): Luc Bonneux, Nicole Van der Gaag, Govert Bijwaard, Esther Mot, Peter Willemé The objectives of Work Package (WP) 2 of the EU FP7 project ANCIEN are to assess the actual and future numbers of elderly care-dependent persons in selected countries. Such projections are needed to support planning to meet future needs for long-term care (LTC) across the EU. This study has selected four countries for projections of LTC needs: Spain, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands. These countries are representative of European epidemiology and of different systems for the provision of long-term care. |
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Executive Summary of Work Package 3 on Availability and Choice of Care of the ANCIEN Project Author(s): Sergi Jiménez Martín, Raquel Vegas Sánchez, Cristina Vilaplana Work Package 3 on the Availability and Choice of Care of the ANCIEN project aims to document the forces driving the choice of formal and informal care across European countries and to characterise the linkages between the type of care used by dependent people and a country's institutional setting, which determines the supply of formal and informal care. Different issues related to formal and informal care choices and the LTC (long-term care) institutional setting in the EU have been analysed by the WP3 contributors. This research report summarises each partner’s contribution. |
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Availability and Choice of Care Author(s): Sergi Jiménez-Martín, Raquel Vegas Sánchez The provision of informal care is an important source of long-term care for older people in Europe. According to the latest available data, between 21% and 43% of the population living in Europe aged 65 and older receive informal care. Given fiscal constraints on public budgets in most of the EU countries and the ageing of the population, it is likely that in the very near future informal care providers will represent the most important source of care for disabled and older people in Europe. This Policy Brief, drawing on the findings of Work Package 3 on Availability and Choice of Care of the ANCIEN project, attempts to analyse the principal determinants of both providing and receiving informal long-term care with a view to designing adequate policies to support caregivers in a sustainable and efficient way. |
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Quality Assurance Policies and Indicators for Long-Term Care in the European Union Author(s): Roberto Dandi This Policy Brief summarises findings from Work Package (WP) 5 of the ANCIEN project and its three objectives: first, collecting comprehensive information on national quality assurance policies and indicators in LTC systems in 15 EU member states; second, using the collected data to derive a typology of national systems on quality in LTC; and third, producing recommendations at all levels (European, national and local) to improve quality of LTC in Europe. The study has identified four clusters of countries based on the respective quality assurance policies and indicators. Comparing these results with the clusters identified in WP1, gaps between national policies for LTC and quality assurance policies have been identified. Also, some quality issues have been identified and analysed across Europe: professional integration, the quality of informal care, the transparency of quality assessment results, quality monitoring and professional education. This paper provides policy recommendations on these issues. |
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Author(s): Georgia Casanova In Italy, regions are at the centre of the system providing long-term care services, which typically include residential services, formal home care and monetary benefits. The regions define their own policies for the provision of care, ranging from needs assessment and monitoring tools to the accreditation of service providers. Quality assurance policies are primarily directed at residential services and formal home care, but as this research report highlights, there are many differences across regions. |