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GARCIA GUINDO, Miguel  e  RUIZ SEISDEDOS, Susana. Public policies that frame the care for people in situations of dependency: current status and future challenges. Index Enferm [online]. 2017, vol.26, n.3, pp.215-219. ISSN 1699-5988.

This paper aims to highlight some of the obstacles that have had to overcome the public policies that frame the care of dependent people since 2004 until today. To do this, it is firstly carried out a terminological approach that seeks to avoid the so-called "conceptual stretching". Then we address some of the present difficulties in the very genesis of the Act No. 39/2006 of 14 December, on the promotion of personal autonomy and care of dependent personswhich are origin and consequence of its subsequent evolution. Finally, it is carried out an analysis of what has led the change of the scale for assessing as an example of the current state of the implementation of the Law following the entry of the Royal Decree-Law 20/2012.

Palavras-chave : Dependence; Evaluation; Law to promote the personal autonomy and care of dependent people.