This paper considers the partnership model, which is in the author’s view the best answer in the social policy creation in contemporary conditions. The author refers to changes and reforms in the development of welfare state in the world from 1980s onwards. He describes various approaches and models, …

Dit hoofdstuk schetst een beeld van Groningen in de twintigste eeuw met aandacht voor het ontstaan van verzorgingsstaat arrangementen, de gezondheidszorg, het onderwijs, cultuur, vermaak en sport.

This paper was first presented as a background paper to the invitation conference The social quality of Europe, organised in Amsterdam, 8-10 June 1997 by the Dutch Ministry on Health, Welfare and Sports.

A comparison between arrangements for income and care in old age in Britain and the Netherlands before and after the welfare state.

The gradual aging of western society during the twentieth century, including its causes and consequences, has become one of the dominant themes of demography and sociology. This study tries to shed more light on the recent past of older individuals emphasizing the socio-economic strategies they employed …

How did family and kin take care of their elderly in the communities of Limbricht (South of the Netherlands with extensive household structures) and Scheemda (North of the Netherlands with more nuclear families) in the decades between both world wars.