Legal aspects of long-term care in Slovenia

Abstract

The importance of long-term care is growing, especially in societies which are getting older. Also in Slovenia, it has been recognised that there is a need for organising long-term care insurance and introducing mechanisms to ensure a good quality of long-term care provision as well as proper protection of informal caregivers. In the present paper the legal aspects of the existing long-term care arrangements and new legislative initiatives in Slovenia are being analysed.