Novi laburisti - reforme sistema dugotrajnog zbrinjavanja starih
New Labourists - Reforms of the System of Long-Term Care for the Elderly

Summary/Abstract: By re-conceptualization of priorities, Labourists attempted to offer replies to the changes that occurred in contemporary world, in the same time maintaining economic competitiveness and respecting fundamental principles of social democracy. Accordingly, the ideology of the Third Way was seen as a compromise solution which promised the preservation of the existing social order in new, changed circumstances. The reforms, among else, were to provide redefinition and transformation of social state through deregulation, decentralization, privatization and emphasized role of the market, as the most efficient way for improvement of quality and efficiency of social services. The system of long-term care for the elderly in Great Britain traditionally relied on family, with participation of state institutions reduced to a minimum measure. During decades, the entire system developed chaotically and in absence of coordination, so it turned out to be inadequate to reply to demographic changes Great Britain faces with, and accordingly also to longterm projections. Reforms that were necessary, and which implementation started around the end of the 1980s were importantly defined by the new rightist ideology, and since the mid-1990s also by the Third Way. The paper is organized as to try to explain basic ideological threads of the Third Way, on one hand, and after that, through analysis of system of longterm care for the old and its genesis, to point to possibilities and effects of implementation of this direction in practice.

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