A care regime typology of elder, long-term care institutions.

ABSTRACT: This study generates a classification of 26 European OECD countries with respect to care regimes. Care regimes are 'social joins' on the nexus between the state and the family, grouping countries into 'types' that have similar characteristics with respect to state care institutions. The latter are formal arrangements by the state that may alleviate citizens' care burdens either financially, in kind, or both. We build upon the literature on the dimensions of defamilialisation and familialism and empirically test how these two dimensions indicate different types of care regimes. We expect to find at least three different regime types that combine either high reliance on defamilialisation or on supported familialism, or the lack of both. We collected macro-data of 26 countries on five indicat

SUBMITTER: van Damme M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12058588 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature