Publications

2017

Annual Report of Activities 2017

More than a dozen of new projects started over the past 12 months, covering a broad range of social welfare issues.

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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

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

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

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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