Policies of personalisation in Norway and England: On the impact of political context

摘要: Within Europe the Norwegian and English welfare states represent two different regimes. Due to common demographic challenges of an aging population as well grassroots pressures, particularly from disabled people, significant changes in delivery longterm-care services for older people have taken place. This article focuses on change towards personalisation policies encouraging people’s greater choice control regard their care uses case ‘cash-for-care’, which gives allocation funding meet needs, discuss conditions implications within contexts. Based a theoretical framework exploring democratic market discourse provides comparative analysis cash-for-care schemes. While crucial public sector’s role at arm’s length long-term-care occurred, differences remain: while residents are given beginning they also face more insecure circumstances due simultaneously stimulated provider market. The case, however, shows possibility increasing without large diversity