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Care provision within families and its socio-economic impact on care providers across the European Union
- Authors:
- GLENDINNING Caroline, et al
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This is summary of a study that aimed to compile evidence on: the prevalence of long-term informal care-giving within a family setting to dependent family members or relatives in various EU countries, focusing on the most ‘heavily burdened’ carers; the socio-economic impact of care-giving on the households of family carers; and measures aimed at alleviating burdens on family carers by supporting them in the provision of care and/or compensating for the adverse socio-economic consequences of care-giving. The study used existing national and transnational sources of data, including official statistics and published primary research. Burden and socio-economic impacts of carers of older people and non-older people are discussed in separate sections. Policy and practice measures designed to support carers, rated according to the robustness of evidence also included.
Care provision within families and its socio-economic impact on care providers: report for the European Commission DG EMPL negotiated procedure VT/2007/114
- Authors:
- GLENDINNING Caroline, et al
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 147p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
The aims of the study were to compile evidence on: the prevalence of long-term informal care-giving within a family setting to dependent family members or relatives in various EU countries, focusing on the most ‘heavily burdened’ carers; the socio-economic impact of care-giving on the households of family carers; and measures aimed at alleviating burdens on family carers by supporting them in the provision of care and/or compensating for the adverse socio-economic consequences of care-giving. The study used existing national and transnational sources of data, including official statistics and published primary research. Burden and socio-economic impacts of carers of older people and non-older people are discussed in separate sections. Policy and practice measures designed to support carers, rated according to the robustness of evidence also included.
Paying for long-term domiciliary care: a comparative perspective
- Authors:
- GLENDINNING Caroline, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 17(2), March 1997, pp.123-140.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Concerns over growing numbers and proportions of older people in industrialised societies have prompted interest in the development of cheaper ways of providing long-term care for older people. While debate in the UK is currently focused on the costs of residential and nursing care, other European and Nordic countries have introduced schemes designed to encourage or sustain the provision of 'social' care by family members, friends and 'volunteers', on the assumption that this can be provided a lower net public expense that either residential care or formally-organised domiciliary services. This article describes four different models on which such payments are currently based. These models are discussed and evaluated, taking into account factors which include the eligibility criteria for payments; maximising the autonomy of older people and family care-givers; and the relationships between financial payments and access to services.