Long-Term Care and Older People in Western Europe

1. The challenge of policy integration and the complexity of care homes responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe - Eloisa del Pino and Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes


2. Welfare regimes and long-term care in the 'Old Continent' - Roberta Perna and Luis Moreno


3. Muddling through after a strong start: tackling the COVID-19 pandemic in Austrian nursing homes - Monika Riedel and Christoph Stegner


4. Lessons not learned: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the residential care sector in England - Caroline Glendinning


5. Protecting older people's lives, forgetting about their other rights? Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in the care home sector in Finland - Tyyne Ylinen, Vera Ylinen, Laura Kalliomaa-Puha, and Statu Ylinen


6. Impact of the French top-down management of the COVID-19 pandemic on residential care homes - Arnaud Campeon, Blanche Le Bihan, and Claude Martin


7. Large capacities in health care: insufficient protection of vulnerable groups in Germany - Caspar Lueckenbach, Eduard Klukas, Phillip Florian Schmidt, and Thomas Gerlinger


8. The Greek long term care sector against COVID-19: an effort for excellence - Costis Prouskas and Michael Goudoumas


9. Long-term care of older people in residential care settings in Ireland during waves 1 and 2 of the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons (still to be) learned - Sara Burke, Katharine Schulmann, Virpi Timonen and Eimir Hurley


10. Neglecting nursing homes: the management of the pandemic crisis in Italy - C. Ranci, M. Arlotti and S. Cerea


11. Government response to the COVID-19 pandemic in long-term care residences for older people: preparedness, responses, and challenges for the future in Luxembourg - Robert Urbe and Cristina Font


12. The COVID-19 crisis as a 'hospital issue': the impact of COVID-19 measures on Dutch nursing homes - Maria Bruquetas and Anita Boecker


13. Portugal: structural weaknesses of nursing homes network exposed by the pandemic - Luis Capucha, Alexandre Daniel Calado and Nuno Nunes


14. Long-term care for older people during the COVID-19 pandemic in decentralised Spain - Jorge Hernandez-Moreno, Roberta Perna, Manuel Pereira-Puga and Gibran Cruz-Martinez


15. Swedish long-term care for older people in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic - Lennarth Johansson and Paer Schoen


16. Cross-case analysis and conclusion - Eloisa del Pino and Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes