Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Japan’s Long-Term Care Insurance System

Chapter 3 Eldercare in Norway: Content, Organization, and Financing the Care System: A Brief History, Current Status, and Future Prospects

Chapter 4 Care Providers in Japan: Before and After the Long-Term Care Insurance

Chapter 6 Changes in Family and Informal Care in Japan

Chapter 7 Changes in Family and Informal Care in Norway

Chapter 8 Assessment Instruments and Allocation of Services in Japan

Chapter 9 Assessment Instrument and the Allocation of Care Services in Norway

Chapter 10 Quality of Care Services in the Japanese System of Long-Term Care

Chapter 11 Quality of Care Services in Norway

Chapter 12 Conclusions: The Salience of Eldercare