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Substitution between formal and informal care: a ‘natural experiment’ in social policy in Britain between 1985 and 2000
- Author:
- PICKARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 32(7), October 2012, pp.1147-1175.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This article examines substitution between formal and informal care in England between 1985 and 2000. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, there was an increase in long-stay residential care for older people, which came to an end around the mid-1990s. The article examines whether this increase in formal services led to a decline in informal care, and whether this was subsequently reversed. The paper shows that there was a decline in provision of intense co-resident care for older parents between 1985 and 1995, which came to an end in the mid-1990s. These trends in intergenerational care were related to changes in long-stay residential care. In particular, controlling for age and disability, there was evidence of substitution between nursing home and hospital care and co-resident care for older parents. The author concludes that a key policy implication is that an expansion of very intense formal services for older people could bring about a decline in very intense intergenerational care.
Will older people head for the hills?
- Author:
- McKAY Reg
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.2.01, 2001, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Scottish Executive has promised free personal care for people with long term needs - both young and old. Asks if this will lead to an invasion of English people hoping to obtain services free of charge.
Policy convergence: restructuring long-term care in Australia and the UK
- Authors:
- GIBSON Diane, MEANS Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 29(1), January 2001, pp.43-58.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Australia and the UK have historically had very different systems of long-term care for older people and others. Recent restructuring has led to interesting convergences of those systems, largely, the authors argue. because of the limited set of policy levers available to reformers in both countries.
The German system of long-term care insurance
- Author:
- ZGANEC Nino
- Journal article citation:
- Revija Za Socijalnu Politiku Journal of Social Policy, 7(1), 2000, pp.55-62.
- Publisher:
- University of Zagreb
This article provides an overview of the German system of long-term care insurance that was introduced in 1995.
Financing long-term social care: challenges for the nineties; paper for the Esmee Fairbairn workshop, Cambridge, September 1988
- Author:
- DAVIES Bleddyn
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 26p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
Suggests ways of improving the mechanisms for financing long-term social care for old people.
Not all that glitters is gold: long-term care reforms in the last two decades in Europe
- Authors:
- RANCI Costanzo, PAVOLINI Emmanuele
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 25(3), 2015, pp.270-285.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article explores changes that took place in long-term care (LTC) policies during the last two decades in six European welfare states. It addresses three issues: (1) why reforms took place, (2) the main actors and coalitions driving this process and the institutional mechanisms at work and (3) the main outcomes of reform processes. In order to analyse the development of LTC policies, the article applies theoretical concepts of historical institutionalism. The interpretation is that institutional change in LTC policy has taken place through a protracted institutional dynamic in which continuity and discontinuity are inextricably linked and where tensions and contradictions have played a crucial role. With regard to outcomes, the article analyses coverage and citizens’ social rights, working conditions in the care sector and trajectories of de-/re-familization of care. The final impact is that the level of universalism has generally increased in Europe, but that in part it has adopted a new form of ‘restricted universalism’, characterized by universal entitlements to LTC benefits constrained by limitations in provision due to financial constraints and budget ceilings. (Edited publisher abstract)
Older people in the United Kingdom: key facts and statistics 2007
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 33p.
- Place of publication:
- London
These facts and figures have been developed as a result of the many enquirers who have contacted Age Concern needing statistics on a wide range of topics of relevance to older people. It is updated annually and gives information about older people throughout the United Kingdom but, because administrative structures are different, in some cases statistics are given for Great Britain (i.e. England, Scotland and Wales only), or in some cases England or England and Wales only. These figures are marked accordingly.
Older people in the United Kingdom: key facts and statistics 2006
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 32p.
- Place of publication:
- London
These facts and figures have been developed as a result of the many enquirers who have contacted us needing statistics on a wide range of topics of relevance to older people. It is updated annually and gives information about older people throughout the United Kingdom but, because administrative structures are different, in some cases statistics are given for Great Britain (i.e. England, Scotland and Wales only), or in some cases England or England and Wales only. These figures are marked accordingly.
Defining responsibility for care: approaches to care of older people in six European countries
- Author:
- BLACKMAN Tim
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 9(3), July 2000, pp.181-190.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article examines the social care of older people in six contrasting European countries. Family, institutional and community care are compared, focusing on vulnerability, empowerment and the gatekeeping of resources. The article considers the position of older people in each care system by presenting individual case studies. The six countries include the family-oriented systems of Ireland, Italy and Greece, and the individual-oriented systems of Denmark, Norway and England. Overall, the different levels of provision of organised social care services are a major aspect of inequality within and between the countries. Whilst there is little prospect for any major policy transfer across national boundaries, there is potential for selective cross-national learning with regard to particular service developments.
The Aged Care Act 1997: improving the quality of residential aged care
- Author:
- VALENTINE Bruce
- Journal article citation:
- Australian Social Work, 53(1), March 2000, pp.15-19.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article reviews the benefits claimed to flow from the commencement of the Australian Aged Care Act 1997. It is concluded that in restructuring residential aged care services the Commonwealth Government has withdrawn from its regulatory responsibility of ensuring residents receive adequate standards of care. To legitimate its actions the Government contractualised the relationship between service providers and residents, to the detriment of the residents.