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Residential care and care to community-dwelling parents
— out-selection, in-selection and diffusion of responsibility | | Author(s) | Thijs Van Den Broek, Pearl A Dykstra |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 37, no 8, September 2017 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, September 2017 |
| Pages | pp 1609-1631 |
| Source | http://www.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Living in the community ; Children [offspring] as carers ; Bed availability ; Care homes ; Quantitative studies ; Europe. |
| Annotation | Research suggests that adult children are less likely to provide care to community-dwelling parents when beds in residential care settings are more widely available. The underlying mechanisms are not well understood. In this article, the authors use data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) on 1,214 impaired parent-child dyads from 12 countries. They find that adult children are less likely to provide care in countries where beds in residential care settings are more widely available for three reasons: (a) because parents' care needs are less severe in such countries (out-selection hypothesis), and (b) adult children and impaired parents are less likely to share a household in such countries (in-selection hypothesis). Finally (c), after taking these two factors into account, adult children remain less likely to provide care in countries where beds in residential care settings are more widely available (diffusion of responsibility hypothesis). Plausibly, being able to rely on residential care undermines adult children's sense of urgency to step in and provide care to their parents. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170825204 A |
| Classmark | K4: P6:SS: QKW: KW: 3DQ: 74 |
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