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| The shifting balance of long-term care in Sweden | | Author(s) | Gerdt Sundström, Lennarth Johansson, Linda B Hassing |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 42, no 3, June 2002 |
| Pages | pp 350-355 |
| Keywords | Services ; Community care ; Informal care ; Long term ; Longitudinal surveys ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | The Swedish debate on the role of family and state in the care of older people is described in a study which provides evidence on the shifting balance of family, state and market in the total panorama of elderly care. Secondary analysis of data from 1954, 1994 and 2000 is used to assess living arrangements and care patterns for people aged 75+ living in the community. Total spending on older people has stagnated, and institutional care is shrinking in absolute and relative terms. Public home help for older people living in the community is decreasing even more. Family members increasingly shoulder the bulk of care, but privately purchased care also seems to expand. This study calculates how public and informal care has changed between 1994 and 2000. Informal care estimated to have provided 60% of care to older people in the community in 1994 had risen to 70% in 2000. The results parallel a crisis of legitimacy of public elder care in Sweden, and call into question various metaphors used to describe patterns of care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020703209 A |
| Classmark | I: PA: P6: 4Q: 3J: 76P |
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