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Bringing the family in through the back door: the stealthy expansion of family care in Asian and European long-term care policy

Author(s)
Kodate, Naonori 
Timonen, Virpi 
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/9185
Date Issued
September 2017
Abstract
In the era of global ageing, amid political concerns about increasing care needs and long-term sustainability of current care regimes, most high-income economies are seeking to minimise the use of institutional care and to expand formal home care for their older populations. In long-term care reforms, concerns about public funding, formal providers and the paid care workforce are foremost. However, an integral yet hidden part of all these reforms is the stealthily growing role of family carers. This article aims to identify and spell out how developments in formal home care bring about different modes of increasing, encouraging and necessitating family care inputs, across welfare states. Using secondary sources, three different modes were identified, and the article outlines the logic of each mechanism, drawing on illustrative examples of policy dynamics in both European and Asian countries. Family care inputs have increased through policy changes that are not explicitly or primarily about family care, but rather about expansion or changes in formal care. In some cases, this is explicit, in other cases something that happens 'through the back door'. Nonetheless, in all cases there are implications for the family caregivers' time, health and employment options. Future studies are needed to examine longitudinal trends from a comparative perspective to confirm our findings and elucidate how government commitments to formal home care provision and financing interact with the changing nature and volume of family caregiving.
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Springer
Journal
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology
Volume
32
Issue
2
Start Page
291
End Page
301
Copyright (Published Version)
2017 Springer
Keywords
  • Welfare state

  • Care policy

  • Social care

  • Europe

  • Asia

DOI
10.1007/s10823-017-9325-5
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/
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