European Union launched in 2022 itsEuropean Care Strategy, stressing the need for Member States to provideaffordable and adequate access to high-quality long-term care services forall those in need (European Union, 2022). The fact that such a high-levelpolicy announcement was deemed necessary implies that the reality acrossEurope is far from this goal, that in practice care services are often of lowquality, unaffordable and inadequate, and that many people in need do nothave access to them – and that informal care can no longer solve the situation.
Nation and confereradtion-level decisio making that takes, it seems as a starting point, an axiom (?) that
- state should provide care
- care should be affordable and accessible and high-quality