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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Care Receipt at Older Ages: A Comparative European Study
This study is among the first to investigate whether and how socioeconomic inequalities in the receipt of formal and/or informal care by disabled older adults vary across long-term care (LTC) systems. We link data from the SHARE survey with LTC system indicators for 136 regions in 12 European countr...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7743391/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2566 |
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author | Floridi, Ginevra Carrino, Ludovico Glaser, Karen |
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description | This study is among the first to investigate whether and how socioeconomic inequalities in the receipt of formal and/or informal care by disabled older adults vary across long-term care (LTC) systems. We link data from the SHARE survey with LTC system indicators for 136 regions in 12 European countries in 2015. Using multinomial multilevel models with cross-level interactions, we test whether and how income and wealth gradients in the receipt of only informal, only formal, and mixed care vary with the number of beds in residential LTC facilities across regions. We find pro-rich inequalities in the receipt of formal and mixed care only in regions with low or intermediate numbers of LTC beds, and no inequalities in regions with greater availability of residential beds. Our findings suggest that the presence of extensive formal LTC services may lead to a fairer distribution of formal and mixed care use across socioeconomic groups. |
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spelling | pubmed-77433912020-12-21 Socioeconomic Inequalities in Care Receipt at Older Ages: A Comparative European Study Floridi, Ginevra Carrino, Ludovico Glaser, Karen Innov Aging Abstracts This study is among the first to investigate whether and how socioeconomic inequalities in the receipt of formal and/or informal care by disabled older adults vary across long-term care (LTC) systems. We link data from the SHARE survey with LTC system indicators for 136 regions in 12 European countries in 2015. Using multinomial multilevel models with cross-level interactions, we test whether and how income and wealth gradients in the receipt of only informal, only formal, and mixed care vary with the number of beds in residential LTC facilities across regions. We find pro-rich inequalities in the receipt of formal and mixed care only in regions with low or intermediate numbers of LTC beds, and no inequalities in regions with greater availability of residential beds. Our findings suggest that the presence of extensive formal LTC services may lead to a fairer distribution of formal and mixed care use across socioeconomic groups. Oxford University Press 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7743391/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2566 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Floridi, Ginevra Carrino, Ludovico Glaser, Karen Socioeconomic Inequalities in Care Receipt at Older Ages: A Comparative European Study |
title | Socioeconomic Inequalities in Care Receipt at Older Ages: A Comparative European Study |
title_full | Socioeconomic Inequalities in Care Receipt at Older Ages: A Comparative European Study |
title_fullStr | Socioeconomic Inequalities in Care Receipt at Older Ages: A Comparative European Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Socioeconomic Inequalities in Care Receipt at Older Ages: A Comparative European Study |
title_short | Socioeconomic Inequalities in Care Receipt at Older Ages: A Comparative European Study |
title_sort | socioeconomic inequalities in care receipt at older ages: a comparative european study |
topic | Abstracts |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7743391/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2566 |
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