In 1995, Germany launched a compulsory long-term care insurance to pool the growing financial risk of long-term care of the ageing population. Most of the population is covered by the social long-term care insurance following the same principles as the social health insurances stemming from the...
This paper describes the Social Long-Term Care Insurance (SLTCI) in Germany. Based on a short review of the history of long-term care organization and the preceding laws in Germany, the implementation of the SLTCI as a self-standing pillar within the system of social insurances in Germany ...
Evaluates the impact of long-term care reform on the health care system of Germany. Resemblance of Germany's system of public support for long-term care with system adopted by the United States; Replacement of means-tested system to social insurance program; Enactment of a mandatory, universal ...
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Instead, Argentina is now going to be a role model for reformers in other nations. Kamala Harris lost –I don’t know if the Vice President is actually a lightweight and I don’t care. What I do know is that she is a doctrinaire statist with a terrible policy agenda. If she has ...
Animal husbandry and research protocols also complied with international standards40 and local guidelines on the husbandry and care for sanctuary-living animals as stipulated by the Zambia Wildlife Association (ZAWA). The study was purely observational in nature and thus did not require specific ethical...
In this paper, we investigate the interaction between the social care provision process and pandemic dynamics, using the example of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, commonly known as Covid-19. As such, this paper fills a gap between the (sparse) literature focusing on the modelling of social care ...
where more generous packages are applied to participants of UEMBI over URRBMI. Proportional funding and mandatory employment contributions could assist lower socioeconomic groups who are unable to afford care. In Germany, eligibility for LTC requires almost all workers and pensioners to contribute to ...
The delayed access to reimbursed parental leave structures the ability of gay couples to become parents and contributes to class inequalities in the transition to parenthood. When a couple is expecting a baby, they make decisions on how to care for the infant. Cultural gender expectations, legal ...
Multilevel Systems in Papionins The hamadryas society is characterized by a hierarchical construction of social units: OMUs, clans, bands, and troops (Abegglen1984; Kummer1968,1984; Schreier and Swedell2009; Stolba1979; Swedell2006). OMUs consist of one adult male and one to several females ...