Title:	Political Institutions and Elderly Care Policy
Authors:	Takeshi Hieda
Keywords:	Political Institutions
Issue Date:	2012
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	This book intends to reveal the political logic of the development of long-term care policy for frail older people in advanced industrialized countries. As the demographic structure and the composition of house- holds have changed, long-term care services for the aged are becoming an imminent welfare state policy issue across advanced democracies. The increase of the ‘older old-aged’ (i.e., 75 years old and over) popula- tion creates the need for social care services as well as income security. Since fewer and fewer older people live with their offspring and more and more women participate in the labour market, the family cannot accommodate those needs within the household anymore. That is the reason why formal social care services are required to step in to help households take care of frail older people. However, public policies intended to fulfil the care demands for the aged are remarkably diverse across countries. While some countries directly provide social care serv- ices for older people, some other countries subsidize formal care services through social insurance budgets. Elderly care services are still provided as a means-tested program in many countries. The volume of publicly funded elderly care services is also considerably varied across advanced industrialized democracies. How can we explain this variety of policy responses to socio-demographic transformation? This is the research question this study tackles.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/51110
ISBN:	978-1-137-03105-1
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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