Sweden’s elderly find help in private sector
By David Ibison in Stockholm
Published: May 15 2008 17:06 | Last updated: May 15 2008 17:06
Growing old in Sweden has become a dismal affair. Despite paying some of the world’s highest taxes their entire working lives and living in one of the most generous welfare states, the old are increasingly being left stranded in their houses or forced to live in crumbling state-owned homes with dormitory-style accommodation and nothing to do but wonder where the famed Swedish model went wrong.
But an innovative private sector plan for the provision of care to Sweden’s elderly is promising to breathe some life into this arthritic corner of the Nordic welfare model.
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