There Is No Place Like Home: The Impact of Public Home-Based Care on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Older People.

ABSTRACT: Despite a significant policy shift from institutional to home-based care for older adults, evidence on the effectiveness of policies incentivizing home care is limited. This study provides novel evidence on the causal effect of public home-based care on the mental health and well-being of older people. To address endogenous selection, we implement a novel instrumental variable approach that exploits eligibility rules for long-term care as defined in national legislations. We link longitudinal data from the Survey of Health, Aging & Retirement in Europe (SHARE, 2004-2017) to national LTC eligibility rules in France, Germany, Spain and Belgium (disaggregated for Wallonia and Flanders regions) and examine how exogenous variation in the use of long-term care caused by varying eligibility rules

SUBMITTER: Carrino L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12045774 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature