Should there be a more active role of family care assistants in long-term care provision? – survey evidence on the view of German citizens
This paper deals with the public acceptance of policies that pave the way for a more active role of family care assistants in long-term care provision. Family care assistants, i.e. non-relatives providing homecare services in the own private home of the care recipient, provide valuable help for adul...
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Publié dans: | MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 42-2016) |
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Format: | Article |
Langue: | anglais |
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
2016
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Résumé: | This paper deals with the public acceptance of policies that pave the way for a more active role of family care assistants in long-term care provision. Family care assistants, i.e. non-relatives providing homecare services in the own private home of the care recipient, provide valuable help for adult children organizing long-term care for their parents. However, their support comes at the price of transferring more family-owned wealth to non-relatives. Based on a survey among German citizens, we provide empirical evidence on the factors that drive the support for a more active role of family care assistants. We find support to be higher among subjects who gave long-term care personally. Monetary self-interest is found to matter. In addition, we find evidence of a clear line of conflict: Citizens with alive parents are more likely to support a more active role of family care assistants than citizens whose parents are dead. |
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Description matérielle: | 40 Seiten |
ISSN: | 1867-3678 |
DOI: | 10.17192/es2024.0511 |