Chapter 1: Long-term care services in Norway a historical sociological perspective (Karen Christensen and Kari W?rness); Chapter 2: Revisiting the public care model the Danish case of free choice in home care (Tine Rostgaard); Chapter 3: Organizational trends impacting on everyday realities: the case of Swedish eldercare (Anneli Stranz and Marta Szebehely); Chapter 4: Long-term care reforms in the Netherlands: care work at stake (Barbara Da Roit); Chapter 5: The English social care workforce: the vexed question of low wages and stress (Shereen Hussein); Chapter 6: The personalization and marketization of home care services for older people in England (Kate Baxter); Chapter 7: The development of an ambiguous care work sector in France. Between professionalization and fragmentation (Blanche Le Bihan and Alis Sopadzhiyan); Chapter 8: Care provision inside and outside the professional care system: the case of long-term care insurance in Germany (Hildegard Theobald); Chapter 9: Employing migrant care workers for 24-hour care in private households in Austria: benefits and risks for the long-term care system (August ?sterle); Chapter 10: Migrant care workers in Italian households: recent trends and future perspectives (Mirko Di Rosa, Francesco Barbabella, Arianna Poli, Sara Santini and Giovanni Lamura); Chapter 11: Post-socialist eldercare in the Czech Republic: institutions, families, and the market (Ad?la Souralov? and Eva `lesingerov?); Chapter 12: Imbalance between demand and supply of long-term care the calÍ