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One characteristic of emerging practices in long-term care (LTC) for older people is the lack of evidence concerning specific interventions that have been applied. While evidence-based medicine has started to become a mainstream issue (Long et al., 2006; Moriarty et al., 2007), practitioners and policymakers in the realm of LTC seem to lack guidance and general openness for this kind of working. This is in part due to the still-emerging nature of LTC as a discrete system, but also due to the tensions that exist in how evidence is understood and used for both health and social care practice and policy (Klein, 2000).
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Billings, J. (2013). Improving the Evidence Base. In: Leichsenring, K., Billings, J., Nies, H. (eds) Long-Term Care in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137032348_14
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