Private care for the elderly mentally ill

This advice to a traveller could be offered to those moving resources from institutional care of the elderly to true care in the home. While present plans concern the destination and mode of travel, less attention is paid to differences in the starting point. Health districts vary greatly in terms of numbers, movements and placements of their elderly populations. Numerical increases or decreases may be caused by migration of elderly people to traditional seaside retirement areas. A further attraction is the availability of nursing and residential homes in these belts. Such homes tend to multiply in a given area and draw in new residents from other districts leading to a disproportionately elderly population.

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A New Consumption Cleavage? The Case of Residential Care for the Elderly

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space ◽

10.1068/a240807 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 24 (6) ◽

pp. 807-820 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

C Hamnett ◽

B Mullings

Keyword(s):

Residential Care ◽

The Elderly ◽

Rapid Expansion ◽

Private Provision ◽

Private Care ◽

The Public ◽

Clear Cut ◽

Care For The Elderly ◽

Education And Health

Peter Saunders has argued that Britain, and other countries, are seeing the emergence of a major new consumption cleavage between those who pay for private provision through the market and those who rely on state provision. In this paper this thesis is examined by looking at changes in residential care for the elderly in Britain. It is argued that although there has been a rapid growth in private provision during the 1980s, the consumption cleavage thesis is inappropriate for a number of reasons. First, as with education and health, residents do not own the means of consumption but pay for their use. Second, there is no evidence that the quality of care is better in the private sector than in the public sector. Third, owing to the rapid expansion of state financial support for private care, most private residential homes how accommodate a large proportion of publicly financed residents. In addition, local authority homes also provide for residents who pay for care from private funds or the sale of their house. There is therefore no clear-cut divide between the public and the private sectors in terms of residents or financing.

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Producing (im)mobilities in home care for the elderly: the role of home care agencies in Switzerland

International Journal of Ageing and Later Life ◽

10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.18396 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 23-50

Author(s):

Huey Shy Chau

Keyword(s):

Home Care ◽

The Elderly ◽

The European Union ◽

Eu Accession ◽

Private Care ◽

Private Households ◽

Care For The Elderly ◽

Care Workers ◽

Free Movement Of Persons

The Free Movement of Persons Agreement has fostered the emergence of a new market for live-in care in Switzerland. Private care agencies recruit women from the European Union (EU) accession states and place them as live-in carers for the elderly in private households. This paper focuses on how these agencies organise these live-in care arrangements. Drawing on concepts of the politics of mobility, I analyse the production of (im)mobilities through the placement and recruitment practices of care agencies and the power relations that underlie live-in care arrangements. The findings show that live-in care is constituted both by mobilities, exemplified by care workers’ circular movements and need to be highly mobile, and by care workers’ immobilities once they start working in a household. The care workers’ mobility is in turn enabled by the agencies’ placement practices and by infrastructures specialised in their movements, which serve as moorings.

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Crowdingout effect in long-term care

Wiadomości Statystyczne. The Polish Statistician ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0013.8502 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 64 (5) ◽

pp. 5-16

Author(s):

Małgorzata Kalbarczyk

Keyword(s):

Daily Living ◽

Long Term Care ◽

Probit Model ◽

The Elderly ◽

The State ◽

Formal Care ◽

Term Care ◽

Private Care ◽

Care For The Elderly

The aim of the articleis to present preferences of Poles regarding long-term care for the elderly and to examine whether informal and formal care are substitute or complementary, so can we speak about the crowding out effect. The data used in the study come from a special edition of the survey entitled Eurobarometer conducted by Eurostat in 2007. Poles are much more willing to take advantage of long-term care in their own homesthan in nursing homes. However, to help parents, they would like to take them to their own homes. Those who declare that their long-term care will be financed by the state are older, expect a longer life, have more difficulties in their daily living and are more likely to be exposed to risk factors in relation to persons declaring financing of private care. For the analysis a probit model was used in which the explanatory variable was the expectations regarding the financing of long-term care. The results indicate that the probability of financing private care is lower if we expect support from the state. This may prove that informal care substitute for formal care.

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