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Socio-economic status differences in older people's use of informal and formal help
— a comparison of four European countries | | Author(s) | Marjolein Broese van Groenou, Karen Glaser, Cecilia Tomassini |
| Corporate Author | Family Support for Older People: Determinants and Consequences (FAMSUP) Network, European Science Foundation |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 26, part 5, September 2006 |
| Pages | pp 767-782 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/jid_ASO |
| Keywords | Social class ; Informal care ; Services ; Usage [services] ; Comparison ; United Kingdom ; Italy ; Belgium ; Netherlands ; Conference proceedings ; Europe. |
| Annotation | Variations by older people's socio-economic status (SES, i.e. educational level and social class) in the use of informal and formal help from outside the household in Great Britain, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands are investigated. In all these countries, it was older people in low SES groups who mostly used such help. Multinomial logistic regression analyses showed that, for each country and by both types of help, there were SES gradients in the substitution of both formal and informal care, and that differences in age, health and marital status largely accounted for the former but not the latter. Cross-national differences in the use of both formal and informal help remained when variations in sex, age, SES, health, marital status, home ownership and the use of privately paid help were taken into account. Significant interaction effects were found, which indicated that older people in low SES groups in Great Britain and the Netherlands had higher rates of using internal help from outside the household than their counterparts in Italy, and similarly that those in the Netherlands were more likely to use formal help than their Italian peers. Results are discussed in relation to the cultural differences and variations in the availability of formal services among the countries. This is the third of four empirical studies in this issue of Ageing and Society on the provision of family support to older people, written by members of the Family Support for Older People: Determinants and Consequences (FAMSUP) Network, European Science Foundation (ESF). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060816005 A |
| Classmark | T: P6: I: QLD: 48: 8: 76V: 76E: 76H: 6M: 74 |
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