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A framework for understanding regulation of long-term care quality / Vincent Mor -- Performance measurement in long-term care in Austria / Kai Leichsenring, Frederique Lamontagne-Godwin, Andrea Schmidt, Ricardo Rodrigues, Georg Ruppe -- Monitoring the quality of long-term care in Germany / Vjenka Garms-Homolova and Reinhard Busse -- Quality monitoring and long-term care in Switzerland / Guido Bartelt, Ruedi Gilgen, Daniel Grob, and Thomas Munzer -- Japan's long-term care regulations focused on structure : rationale and future prospects / Naoki Ikegami, Tomoaki Ishibashi, and Takashi Amano -- Regulating long-term care quality in Australia / Len C. Gray, David C. Cullen, and Harold B. Lomas -- Regulating the quality and safety of long-term care in England / Juliette Malley, Jacquetta Holder, Rachael Dodgson, and Samantha booth -- Quality monitoring of long-term care for older people in The Netherlands / JMGA Schols, D. Frijters, GIJM Kempen, and JPH Hamers -- The regulatory structure of Spanish long-term care : the case of Catalonia's service structures and quality assurance systems / Sergio Arino Blasco, Meritxell Sole, Gloria Rubert, Jose M. Sanjuan, and Joan Gil -- Monitoring the quality of long-term care in Finland / Harriet Finne-Soveri, Teija Hammar, Anja Noro, Sari Anttila, and Paivi Voutilainen -- Regulation of long-term care in the United States / David Stevenson and Jeffrey Bramson -- Long-term care for the elderly in Canada : progress toward an integrated system / John P. Hirdes and Vahe Kehyayan -- Regulating the quality of long-term aged care in New Zealand / Brigette Meehan and Nigel Millar -- Quality monitoring of long-term care in the Republic of Korea / Hye-Young Jung, Soong-Nang Jang, Jae Eun Seok, and Soonman Kwon -- Long-term care in China : reigning in market forces through regulatory oversight / Zhanlian Feng, Xinping Guan, Chang Liu, Heying Jenny Zhan, and Vincent Mor -- Regulating quality of long-term care : what have we learned? / Tiziana Leone, Anna Maresso, and Vincent Mor.

The number of elderly people relying on formal long-term care services is dramatically increasing year after year, and the challenge of ensuring the quality and financial stability of care provision is one faced by governments in both the developed and developing world. This edited book is the first to provide a comprehensive international survey of long-term care provision and regulation, built around a series of case studies from Europe, North America and Asia. The analytical framework allows the different approaches that countries have adopted to be compared side by side and readers are encouraged to consider which quality assurance approaches might best meet their own country's needs. Wider issues underpinning the need to regulate the quality of long-term care are also discussed. This timely book is a valuable resource for policymakers working in the health care sector, researchers and students taking graduate courses on health policy and management.