Publications

2017

Realizing the potential of living longer

This UNECE policy brief addresses the potentials of population ageing and necessary steps to enable people to live active and fulfilling lives as they age.

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Community care for people with dementia

European Centre reports

The study proposes a framework for conceptualising community care. This framework underscores the shifting needs of the person with dementia and of informal carers over the trajectory of the disease, and the changing roles of different stakeholders as a result.

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Simulation of an application of the Hartz-IV reform in Austria

European Centre reports

The report presents the fiscal implications together with the distributional effects and the impact on risk of poverty of a similar reform in Austria.

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The social dimension of the EU

European Centre reports

Benchmarking in the social dimension has its pitfalls when focusing on purely quantitative target-setting. Thus, benchlearning processes are suggested, in which analysing the causes for societal challenges, learning from others and action-taking stand in the forefront.

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Bridge Building: Knowledge exchange in social welfare policy and research

European Centre reports

The publication compiles Workshop papers presented at the Launch event ‘Building Bridges in social welfare policy in Eastern Europe’ (19 September 2016; Vienna).

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