Who will still need me, who will still feed me, when I’m 64? Inequalities in long-term care

Ricardo Rodrigues, Cassandra Simmons, Stefania Ilinca and Eszter Zólyomi

Chapter 31 in Research Handbook on Social Care Policy, 2025, pp 503-517 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter reviews existing knowledge from quantitative studies on inequalities in the use of care in the community for older people. To this end, it considers inequalities both at an individual (i.e. between different groups) and comparative or institutional level (i.e. across different care regimes), with a focus on Europe. There is robust evidence that informal care use is concentrated among less affluent individuals, regardless of the institutional context. Despite being over-represented among less affluent groups, women are less likely to use informal care in the literature reviewed here. The evidence on the socio-economic and gender gradient in formal care use in the community is much more mixed, as is the impact of institutional characteristics, such as familialism, on these inequalities. This chapter also discusses current gaps in the literature, such as the inclusion of intersectionality analysis or the under-representation of some groups in the analyses of inequalities in the use of care.

Keywords: Inequalities; Care Regimes; Gender; Socioeconomic; Home care; Access to care (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781839103681
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