Contradictions in elderly care: a descriptive study of politicians' and managers' understanding of elderly care.
We tend to think of Sweden as the home of the generously-funded, government-run 'welfare state', but the ideology of the marketplace is now the dominant one there too. The once unified system is now divided into purchaser and provider organisations as in the UK. In a further reform in 1992, local municipalities took over responsibility for services for older people previously exercised by county councils.