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GLOBAL
OBSERVATORY
OF LONG-TERM
CARE

Part of the International Long-Term Care Policy Network (ILPN)

 

Lorraine Frisina Doetter

University of Bremen, Germany

Lorraine Frisina Doetter

FURTHER INFORMATION

Countries Germany;
Topics Access to care; Ageing in place; Attitudes and Expectations about Long-Term Care; Care management; Care trajectories; Care work and migration; Cash benefits; Dementia care and support; Eligibility for public LTC; Gender and care; LTC and people with mental health conditions; LTC and younger people; LTC insurance; LTC Policy; LTC Reforms; LTC Systems; LTC systems in LMIC countries; LTC Workforce; Person-centered care; Sustainability; Universal design and LTC; Unpaid / informal care; Workforce pay and conditions;
Methods Case studies; Expert consultations; Focus groups; Guidelines development; Knowledge-exchange; Literature reviews and synthesis; Qualitative studies;
Role Research;
Interest Groups Community-based approaches to dementia care; Innovation in Long-Term Care; Integrated Long-Term Care; Long-Term Care Policy; Quality improvement in Long-Term Care; Unmet need inequalities and care poverty (UNICAP); Working Conditions and Wages in Long-Term Care;
Websitehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/lorrainefrisina/
ORC.ID0000-0002-0502-2351
Key publications

Frisina Doetter, L., A. Hamandi, S. Coll-Black, and V. Grigoras. 2025.
The ABCs of Long-Term Care: A Functional Framework for Building System Capacity. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Böbel, S., J. Verhoeven, M. Scholz, B. Penders, L. Frisina Doetter, H. Collatz Christensen, and T. Kraft. 2025.
“Strengthening the WHO Emergency Care Systems Framework: Insights from an Integrated, Patient-Centered Approach in the Copenhagen Emergency Medical Services System—A Qualitative System Analysis.” BMC Health Services Research 25: 401.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-025-12465-7

Cassells, E. D., B. Campbell, G. de Carvalho, and L. Frisina Doetter. 2025.
“Born and Bred from Strife: The Cuban Healthcare Model as a Socialist Response to International and Domestic Conflicts.” In The Generosity of Social Policies in Socialist and Post-Socialist States, edited by A. Heinrich, M. E. Kaminska, H. Pleines, and T. ten Brink. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-87733-9_9

Hansen, S. L., B. Preuß, and L. Frisina Doetter. 2024.
“A Needs-Based Perspective on Long-Term Care, Obesity, and Old Age.” Ethik in der Medizin 36: 391–420.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00481-024-00816-7

Frisina Doetter, L., P. G. Frisina, and B. Preuß. 2022.
“Pandemic Meets Endemic: The Role of Social Inequalities and Failing Public Health Policies as Drivers of Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality among White, Black, and Hispanic Communities in the United States.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19(22): 14961.
URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192214961

Frisina Doetter, L., B. Preuß, and P. Frisina. 2021.
“The Intersections of Pandemic, Public Policy and Social Inequality in the United States.” Forum for Social Economics 51(2): 220–234.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/07360932.2021.1967182
(Recipient of the 2022 Patrick J. Welch Award.)

Frisina Doetter, L., B. Preuß, and H. Rothgang. 2021.
“Taking Stock of COVID-19 Policy Measures to Protect Europe’s Elderly Living in Long-Term Care Facilities.” Global Social Policy.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/14680181211013717

Frisina Doetter, L., A. Schmid, G. de Carvalho, and H. Rothgang. 2021.
“Comparing Apples to Oranges? Minimizing Typological Biases to Better Classify Healthcare Systems Globally.” Health Policy OPEN 2: 1–8.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hpopen.2021.100035

Fischer, J., L. Frisina Doetter, and H. Rothgang. 2021.
“Comparing Long-Term Care Systems: A Multi-Dimensional, Actor-Centred Typology.” Social Policy & Administration.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12742

Kim, H., B. Jeon, L. Frisina Doetter, N. Tamiya, and H. Hashimoto. 2021.
“Same Same but Different? Comparing Institutional Performance in the Long-Term Care Systems of Japan and South Korea.” Social Policy & Administration.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12761

Lupieri, S., and L. Frisina Doetter. 2020.
“Transnational Interdependency and Healthcare System Change: The Role of Humanitarian and Development Aid in Shaping Health Policy in Jordan.” Global Social Policy.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/1468018119896465

Frisina Doetter, L., and S. Neri. 2018.
“Redefining the State in Healthcare Policy in Italy and the United States.” European Policy Analysis 4(2): 234–254.