Social Policy
No 7 (424), 2009
We recommend the papers
Józef Orczyk - Social Policy in the Times of
Economic Crisis
Increasing dynamic of the civilization changes in the last tenths
years created stronger needs of stabilization within the members of different
social groups. Last economic crises increased in the mean time the risk of loosing
work and stability which is combining with it. As a result people are expecting
from the state not only formal guarantee but more often real help. State can
help directly in the form of benefits or indirectly by increasing chances of
continuations of the work. This is giving simultaneously a right for social protection
and creating the possibility of multiplication of work. For the trust of citizens
to the social policy of the state basic is keeping the access to social service.
This is not combining with increase of the budget expenses. Different is situation
when the number of the people who getting social benefits is increasing rapidly.
Piotr Błędowski, Anna Wilmowska-Pietruszyńska -
Organizing Long-Term Care in Poland - Main Problems and Possible Solutions
The increasing number of the oldest people increases the number of people who
need Long-Term Care. Since the ability to provide such benefits by the household
is smaller than in the past, and an increasing share of the elderly leads single
households, health care and social assistance increasingly have to participate
in the organization of proper care for these dependents. Currently, public funds
spent for these benefits are false allocated and do not fulfill their assignments.
The Long-Time Care Insurance should provide adequate coverage and service quality.
The premiums for the insurance should be paid by everyone who receives incomes.
Benefits may be awarded in the form of care for people in their homes or in institutions
or in the form of allowances, from which the dependent can finance the help provided
by the families and informal groups.
Łukasz Jurek - Social Long-Term Care
Insurance - Advantages and Disadvantages
Nowadays demographic and social changes cause, that ensuring long-term care services
to dependent elderly is important and urgent challenge for social policy. In
Poland dominant conception how to solve this problem is enforcement social long-term
care insurance. This solution, although seems to be necessary, above many advantages,
has also many disadvantages.
Zofia Szweda-Lewandowska - Social Welfare
Homes and Senior's Support Networks
The ongoing process of population ageing poses new challenges to elderly care.
The objective of this article is to present the most important factors determining
the necessity for the elderly to use social services, and in particular their
institutional dimension - social welfare homes as well as the support system
available to senior citizens. To attain this goal, the article explores the situation
of persons aged 60 and more who are waiting for admission to social welfare homes
in ŁódĽ. Furthermore, the source of support these persons receive is studied.
Piotr Błędowski - Changes in Long-Term
Care Insurance System in Germany - Main Goals and Preconditions
The law on Long-Time Care Insurance, which is in force since 1995, was in 2008
subjected to a thorough revision. As a result, the catalog of the financial benefits
has been extended and the amount of part of these benefits was raised. These
changes are intended to adjust the benefits to the actual needs of dependent
people. Furthermore, more attention is paid to ensuring the quality of benefits.
For this aim, the scope of the audit by the care insurance fund has been extended.
One of the effects of the availability of nursing services is the fact that pace
of transition of the nursed people in the higher groups of dependency has been
slowed down. This fact favors the reduction of expenditures of the insurances,
which in recent years are forced to cover the accumulated deficit from the earlier
provisions. There is no change in financing of the Long-Term Care Insurance.
Włodzimierz Anioł - Labour Migrants in Australia
This article provides an analysis of Australian labour migration policy. The
country has an extended history of an immigration program managed by the federal
government. In the post-war resettlement phase immigration schemes focussed initially
on the United Kingdom, but they were later expanded to include most countries
in Western Europe. Since the late 1960s, there was progressively a move away
from balancing migrants from diverse world regions to examining foreigner’s suitability
as a settler, wherever the they might come from, which meant the abolition of
the ''White Australia policy''. A turning point was reached in 2004 when for the
first time for more than two centuries less than a half of Australia's overseas-born
population was from Europe. In 1982, the migration points test was introduced
to attract migrants to settle in Australia on a planned and selective basis.
Since then the intake of skilled foreign workers has steadily increased to meet
the chronic skills shortages experienced by a range of national industries. In
2007-08, the Skill Stream made up 68 per cent of the total Migration Program.
There were 108 540 people granted Skill Stream places, an increase of more than
10 per cent on 2006-07, while 49 870 people got Family Stream visas. A range
of mechanisms have been introduced to attract migrants to settle away from the
major metropolitan destinations on the East Coast and in South West Australia.
Since the mid 1990s it has been also recognized that in the context of globalised
labour markets it is essential to have mechanisms to allow non-permanent entry
of workers with particular skills and entrepreneurs.
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Book reviews
Information
"Social Policy " - Contents 7/2009
SOCIAL POLICY IN THE TIMES OF ECONOMIC CRISIS – Józef Orczyk
ORGANIZING LONG-TERM CARE IN POLAND – MAIN PROBLEMS AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS –
Piotr Błędowski, Anna Wilmowska-Pietruszyńska
SOCIAL LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE- ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES – Łukasz Jurek
SOCIAL WELFARE HOMES AND SENIOR’S SUPPORT NETWORKS Zofia Szweda-Lewandowska
SOCIAL POLICY ABROAD
CHANGES IN LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE SYSTEM IN GERMANY – MAIN GOALS AND PRECONDITIONS – Piotr Błędowski
LABOUR MIGRANTS IN AUSTRALIA – Włodzimierz Anioł
BOOK REVIEWS
Monika Wojdyło-Preisner: PROFILING OF UNEMPLOYED PERSONS AS A WAY OF FIGHTING
LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYMENT – Reviewed by Hanna Karaszewska
INFORMATION
INTERIATIONAL SOCIAL POLICY – THE DIMENSIONS FOR COMPARISONS. ANNUAL CONFERENCE
ON SOCIAL POLICY – Beata Kaczyńska, Marta Derlacz
DIARY OF SOCIAL POLICY
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