Abstract

The presentation will discuss the main features of the Italian “care regime” and the LTC policy arena, clarifying what the opportunities and constraints for LTC national and sub-national reforms have been.

The central argument of is that a substantial inertia (in the context of huge societal transformations) characterizes this policy arena and, as a result, the LTC field has undergone only an “incremental institutional change” due to the existence and success of a modest but universal dependency cash transfer since the eighties and thanks to the cooptation of migrant carers by Italian families.

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