Quality of care

Chair: Tine Rostgaard

Bernard Casey  
Zen and the art of care delivery

Ana Paula Gil    
A conceptual model to approach Elder Abuse and Neglect in residential care settings

Anneli Anttoneli, Olli Karsio
Marketization from within: changing governance of care services

Tine Rostgaard
Concepts of quality in long term care for older people

Tsou-Kang Hung
How to negotiate with carers to meet sexual need? -Perspectives of men with physical disabilities in Taiwan

Innovation and social investment in LTC      

Chair: August Österle    

Herve Hudebine             
A new public governance in regional and local social and long term care policies? The French case in a comparative perspective

Rahel Strohmeier Navarro Smith, Konstantin Kehl
Intermediary structures for frail older people: a comparative view on access, use and outcomes in Germany and Switzerland

Jen-Der Lue,Shu-Er Wei              
Social investment for children or elderly? – A Case Study of Taichung City’s Childcare and Elder Care Reforms in Taiwan.

Technological innovation and social investment strategies in the care sector: challenges and opportunities   

Chairs: Francesca Bettio, Annamaria Simonazzi

Lina Van Aerschot, JaanaParviainen
Robots responding to care needs? Analyzing conceptions of care and technological design motives for new generation of care robots

Laura Aldrovandi, Giovanni Solinas
Technological,economical and social issues hampering homecare approaches adoption: challenges and opportunities. Emilia Romagna perspective.

Ruth Bartlett, Brannelly, Tula, Forrester, PäiviTopo
Using GPS technologies with People with Dementia:  A systematic review of the evidence and recommendations for future practice.

Nobu Ishiguro
Can technology contribute to good care? Introduction of technology in Japanese elderly care

Achieving sustainable innovation in care: identifying effective pathways for scaling-up   

Chair: Katharine Schulmann, Gudrun Bauer

Henk NIes          
What makes it work? Evaluation of an eight-year national sustainability program in LTC

Laurent Fraisse, Anne Eydoux, Elisabetta Bucolo             
Innovating for a better access of children of working lone parent to childcare facilities: reframing local childcare system or encouraging the additional private solutions?

Herve Hudebine
A new public governance in regional and local social and long term care policies? The French case in a comparative perspective

Care policy in Italy: national and regional trends   

Chair: Stefania Sabatinelli

Lucia Ferrara, Giuseppe Moro
The coordination between the cure and the care sectors: dynamics, factors and mechanisms

Veronica Polin
Evaluation of the Effects of Regional Subsidies for Childcare Services in the Period 2003-2013: The Case Study of the Veneto

Sergio Pasquinelli          
Collaborative welfare: evidence beyond the storytelling   

Giovanni Lamura           
Elder care needs and service provision in Italy:  current challenges for policy and practice in an international perspective