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How equitable is Sweden's changing care-mix?
— linking individual and regional characteristics over time | | Author(s) | Adam Davey, Jyoti Savla, Gerdt Sundström |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 27, part 4, July 2007 |
| Pages | pp 511-532 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/jid_ASO |
| Keywords | Family care ; Services ; Community care ; Domiciliary services ; Local Authority ; Longitudinal surveys ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | This paper reports an analysis of the relationships between gender, disability and age and the formal care delivered to more than 1200 people aged 75 or more in Sweden in 1994 and 2000. In those municipalities that provided above-average home help hours per recipient and had high institutional placement rates, women were relatively less likely to have been receiving informal assistance alone, those with greater disability were more likely to have been receiving all forms of assistance, the oldest-old were less likely to have been receiving either informal or formal help alone, and rates of formal assistance and of no informal care were relatively low. In municipalities with high rates of institutional placement, the oldest-old were relatively more likely to have been receiving both formal and informal assistance. Sweden's system of old-age care appears broadly equitable although the quality of care could not be fully assessed. Although home and community-based service provision (HCBS) has recently decreased, variations in the volume and mix of delivered formal services reflect differences in need. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070628203 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: I: PA: N: PE: 3J: 76P |
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