Course Catalog

Study Program SoSe 2022

Public Health - Gesundheitsversorgung, -ökonomie und -management, M.A.

Ergänzende Veranstaltungen

Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
08-350-M6-SP2-1Global developments in long term care (in English)

Seminar (Teaching)

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Thu. 12:00 - 14:00 External location: Unicom 3.3380 (2 Teaching hours per week)

Long-term care describes the need for assistance with daily living – for instance, showering, eating, or cleaning – due to physical and/or mental impairment. Compared to social risks such as sickness or loss of income due to work injuries or old-age, long-term care is a rather novel and emerging field of social policy making. This novelty makes it a challenging but also highly interesting and relevant field of welfare state studies. The largest group in need of long-term care are old-aged people. Therefore, with the global trend of population ageing, the demand and the need for public policies addressing long-term care is increasing not only in Europe but also in other parts of the world.
Additionally, traditional care arrangements where (mostly) women take informally care of family members are increasingly at odds with rising female labour market participation, mobility, and feminist ideas.
In the seminar we will review and discuss the developments in long-term care policies from a global perspective. We will start off with defining long-term care as a social policy field and contemplate its historical emergence as a welfare state “latecomer”. During the seminar, we will take a closer look at the key dimensions of long-term care systems and compare different types of systems: How are long-term care systems regulated and financed, and what are the challenges in the provision of long-term care? What differences exist between regions and countries and how can these differences be explained? Furthermore, we will also highlight a selection of current global trends such as care migration, marketization of care, the changing role of families and the way international interdependencies shape national long-term care policies.

Meika Sternkopf, M. Sc
Dr. Johanna Fischer