Strategies for research and development of long-term care for older people in the community

Long-term care is new in Slovenia, both in the field of institutional care for older people and in the field of community care. In both areas of long-term care, there is a lack of analytical research and thus a lack of scientific debate and knowledge about the characteristics of long-term care for older people. This monograph fills these gaps by presenting the basic characteristics of long-term care, on the basis of which the authors justify research that is centred on the needs of people in need of long-term care. This is a central concept in social work, and because of the paradigm shift in care that long-term care implies, it is also an effective way to conduct research in long-term care as well the central theme of the monograph remains social work with older people, which we present in the context of long-term care as a discipline that offers conceptual starting points for long-term care and research methodological knowledge for the development of the field of long-term care.

This book is a translation of the work by Jana Mali and Vera Grebenc titled Strategije raziskovanja in razvoja dolgotrajne oskrbe starih ljudi v skupnosti, published in 2021 by University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani).