Eldercare Policies in Japan and Scandinavia

1. Introduction
John Creighton Campbell, Unni Edvardsen

Part I. Long-Term Care for the Elderly in Japan and Norway

2. Japan’s Long-Term Care Insurance System
John Creighton Campbell

3. Eldercare in Norway: Content, Organization, and Financing the Care System: A Brief History, Current Status, and Future Prospects
Kjell Arne Aarheim

Part II. Provision of Formal Care

4. Care Providers in Japan: Before and After the Long-Term Care Insurance
Yayoi Saito

5. Formal Providers of Eldercare in Norway
Steinar Barstad

Part III. Provision of Informal Care

6. Changes in Family and Informal Care in Japan
Ruth Campbell

7. Changes in Family and Informal Care in Norway
Marit Solheim

Part IV. Procedures of Assessment and Allocation of Eldercare

8. Assessment Instruments and Allocation of Services in Japan
Noriko Kurube

9. Assessment Instrument and the Allocation of Care Services in Norway
Unni Edvardsen

Part V. Mechanisms for Ensuring Quality of Care

10. Quality of Care Services in the Japanese System of Long-Term Care
Koichi Hiraoka

11. Quality of Care Services in Norway
Unni Edvardsen

12. Conclusions: The Salience of Eldercare
Paul Midford

Keywords: Social Sciences, Political Sociology, Public Policy, Political Economy, Asian Politics, European Union Politics, Cultural Policy