Integrating health and social services for older persons: evidence from nine European countries

This book contains a series of chapters by various authors, which describe the challenges associated with integrating community care services across professional boundaries and potential methods of addressing those challenges. The book also addresses to a limited degree integration across the health and long-term care sectors. The evidence the authors tap for their observations comes from a large qualitative study that examined 18 innovative integrated care models in nine European countries—Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The book broadly describes this research, as it has been covered more extensively in other publications.