Articles

Municipalities and Long-Term Care in Slovenia: The Local Dimension of National Reform

Slovenia has created national long-term care rights and dedicated insurance, but much of the practical capacity needed to deliver care at home is organised locally. Municipalities help shape provider networks,...

Ageing in Place in Slovenia: Can Community Support Reduce Reliance on Institutions?

Slovenia’s long-term care reform is creating a stronger basis for older people to remain at home through long-term care at home, e-care, independence-focused support and recognised family caregiving. Yet ageing...

Family Caregivers in Slovenia: Formal Recognition, Support and Sustainability

Slovenia has brought intensive family caregiving directly into its new long-term care system through the formal right to an oskrbovalec družinskega člana. The model provides income protection, social insurance, planned...

Cash Benefits and Choice in Slovenia’s Long-Term Care System

Slovenia’s new long-term care cash benefit gives eligible people an alternative to receiving their principal entitlement as formal home or institutional care. Designed particularly for people whose support is organised...

Institutional Long-Term Care in Slovenia: How Residential Services Are Changing

Slovenia’s long-term care reform has changed the financial and operational model for residential care, bringing long-term care services in institutions within mandatory insurance while residents continue to pay accommodation and...

Long-Term Care at Home in Slovenia: Building Support Around Everyday Life

Slovenia’s new long-term care system makes support at home a formal insured entitlement, combining assistance with everyday activities, care-related nursing, independence support and e-care. This article examines how municipalities, providers,...

Who Can Access Long-Term Care in Slovenia? Eligibility, Assessment and Care Needs

Slovenia’s new long-term care system links public entitlement to insurance status, residence and a structured assessment of how far a person can manage everyday life independently. This article examines the...

From Fragmentation to Integration: Reshaping Long-Term Care Governance in Slovenia

Slovenia’s long-term care reform is creating a more unified framework for assessment, entitlement, financing and service delivery, but integration depends on how national institutions, Centres for Social Work, municipalities, providers,...

Financing Long-Term Care in Slovenia: What the New Insurance Model Changes

Slovenia has introduced compulsory long-term care insurance to create a more stable and solidaristic funding base for its new care entitlements. This article examines who contributes, how public financing connects...

How Slovenia Is Building a New Long-Term Care System: Reform, Rights and Implementation

Slovenia has moved from fragmented long-term support towards a unified statutory system with new rights, dedicated financing and a common route into care. This article examines how the reform is...