CARMEN is the acronym for the Care and Management of Services for Older People in Europe Network. This thematic network has been supported by the European Commission’s ‘Quality of Life and Management of Human Resources’ programme, which is part of DG Research’s fifth framework programme.
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© European Health Management Association
First published 2004
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ISBN 90-5957-283-1
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Book production by the Netherlands Institute for Care and Welfare / NIZW
Cover design by Zeno
Printed by PlantijnCasparie, Almere
This project has been carried out with financial support from the European Commission under the specific RTD programme “Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources 1998-2002, Ageing Key Action”, with the project number QLK6-2000-00584, “CARMEN”. It does not necessarily reflect its views and in no way anticipates the Commission’s future policy in this area.
Cover illustration: ‘The ancient sick wards’ by Jan Beerblock (c. 1778). The picture hangs in the Memling Museum, which used to be St John’s Hospital – one of the oldest surviving Medieval hospitals in Europe. In Medieval times, the hospital was also a hotel and a pharmacy – an early example of integrated care. Reproduced with kind permission of Stedelijke Musea, Bruges.