How caring communities become part of the health system of the future in the Netherlands. Developments, bottlenecks, and impact.

In the past decade the Netherlands has seen major reforms in health- and social care. These reforms accomplished a shift from a social democratic welfare state to a ‘participation society’; people with care and support need to live at home longer and have to rely on their informal network for support. In order to provide an answer to the retreat of state organized support we see an increase of citizens initiatives for care, wellbeing and support in The Netherlands. The growing movement of citizens initiatives, or ‘caring communities, is diffuse. ‘They vary in target groups, activities, organis... Mehr ...