Plans for cross border care costs to be met by home country are halted

Reflections on Health Tourism and Cross-Border Health Care

Pnm-7: Cross-Border Reproductive Care or Fertility Tourism

Background: The fertility tourism is a term refers to the cross-border movements made by infertile patients in order to receive reproductive treatment through assisted reproductive technology. In recent years the number of countries involved in medical tourism has been increased. The aim of this study is to provide an overview of the research that has explored aspects of crossborder reproductiv...

Care home standards to be watered down.

Ministers are set to scrap plans for minimum nursing home staffing ratios as part of a move to water down proposals for national care home standards.

Home Care Personalisation with Individual Intervention Plans

The adoption of general intervention plans (guidelines) according to the particular circumstances of both the patient and the doctor’s diagnostic is a very challenging task. Although there are some available geriatric guidelines, the usual Home Care patients suffer from a set of co-morbid conditions and diseases that hampers the direct application of standard protocols. The representation, crea...

Marketization in Long-Term Care: A Cross-Country Comparison of Large For-Profit Nursing Home Chains

This article presents cross-country comparisons of trends in for-profit nursing home chains in Canada, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States. Using public and private industry reports, the study describes ownership, corporate strategies, costs, and quality of the 5 largest for-profit chains in each country. The findings show that large for-profit nursing home chains are increasi...