{"title":"Anomalies and Issues in Welfare Pluralism: Financing Residential Care for the Elderly in Hong Kong","authors":"H. Wong","doi":"10.1080/02598272.1995.10800308","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article looks at the anomalies and issues in welfare pluralism from the case of financing residential care for the elderly in Hong Kong. It examines a number of policies on the provision of social welfare services in relation to comprehensiveness, relative standards, respective public-private roles and the principle of need. A number of unintended effects and policy dislocations are identified. Also, the reasons underlying the limits to privatization of this service at a comparable quality standard and an affordable price are addressed. The conclusion is that the present arrangements for related provisions are less than rational and equitable.","PeriodicalId":333221,"journal":{"name":"The Asian Journal of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1995-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Asian Journal of Public Administration","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02598272.1995.10800308","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This article looks at the anomalies and issues in welfare pluralism from the case of financing residential care for the elderly in Hong Kong. It examines a number of policies on the provision of social welfare services in relation to comprehensiveness, relative standards, respective public-private roles and the principle of need. A number of unintended effects and policy dislocations are identified. Also, the reasons underlying the limits to privatization of this service at a comparable quality standard and an affordable price are addressed. The conclusion is that the present arrangements for related provisions are less than rational and equitable.