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Towards the caring or the uncaring state? A social policy perspective on long-term care trends

In: A Research Agenda for Ageing and Social Policy

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  • Teppo Kröger

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The chapter analyses pre-pandemic long-term care trends based on OECD statistics. Developments over the past decade in residential and home care are examined and compared in 19 OECD countries, focusing on trends in coverage of these services in the 80+ age group. Results show that several countries that have been early pioneers of long-term care have recently cut down their service coverage, moving towards ‘the uncaring state’, while other countries that have previously been slower in developing their care systems made considerable progress in the 2010s, moving towards ‘the caring state’. The chapter ends by urging policy and research to complement available data on formal care by building up international longitudinal datasets on informal care and unmet care needs. To understand care systems in their entirety and to develop knowledge-based social policies, trend data are needed of each of these three ways in which older people’s care needs are (un)addressed.

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  • Teppo Kröger, 2024. "Towards the caring or the uncaring state? A social policy perspective on long-term care trends," Chapters, in: Kai Leichsenring & Alexandre Sidorenko (ed.), A Research Agenda for Ageing and Social Policy, chapter 12, pages 203-218, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:21317_12
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