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This is a study of long-term care which has been brought together with equity, as it is at the core of welfare state and social policy definitions. It appears "equity" is a central theme of thw welfare state, and an attractive label in social policy making, but it is still an "elusive" issue. The few existing equity studies in long-term care address very specific interpretations of equity, some are locally restricted or include only one type of service provision within the complex areana of long-term care. Regarding the research topic of "Equity and Long-term Care", two major gaps in research have to be identified: first, there is a lack of conceptual and analytical frameworks for a comparative study of long-term care issues; and secind, there is a lack of equity reseacrh focusing on the variety of equity approaches to be found in practice. This study attempts to reduce these gaps in social policy research and to contribute to a better understanding of long-term care and equity issues in a comparative perspective. By bringing together the social policy issues of long-term care and equity, the objective of this study is to comparatively analyze long-term care policies in Europe with regard to equity choices and to contrast the respective choices in selected countries with basic equity objectives in the welfare state.