• Corpus ID: 195836558

Unmet need for long-term care and social exclusion

@inproceedings{Laferrre2015UnmetNF,
  title={Unmet need for long-term care and social exclusion},
  author={Anne Laferr{\`e}re and Karel van den Bosch},
  year={2015}
}

• Anne Laferrère, K. Bosch
• Published 2015
• Medicine

▸ Older people needing long-term care are more likely to suffer from both social and material deprivation than those without such needs ▸ Older people in countries where the responsibility for long-term care is mainly put upon families are more likely to have unmet needs for care than their counterparts where the government takes on a larger part of the responsibility ▸ Unmet need is associated with material and social deprivation. At high levels of need, the association is only with social deprivation ▸ Policy recommendations: – expanding systems of formal care may reduce the number of older people with unmet needs for long-term care – improving neighbourhood relationships may have the indirect effect of encouraging carers to help with LTC in the community