The care of older people : Australia and the United Kingdom
- 2001
Australia and the United Kingdom have tried various ways to contain the growth and cost of institutional care for older people. The Australian government adopted central planning strategies from the mid 1980s that succeeded in limiting nursing home places and increasing community services. The United Kingdom government in the mid - 1990s required local governments to adopet quasi-market strategies but with less success in containing the growth and cost of institutional care. The two countries changed political direction later in the 1900s but both the Australian Liberal (conservative) government and UK "New Labor" want people to play more for their care in old age. Each country has something to learn from the policy experiences of the other, including the contentious issue of who should pay for aged care