Gender differences in access to community-based care: a longitudinal analysis of widowhood and living arrangements.

ABSTRACT: Persistent inequalities in access to community-based support limit opportunities for independent living for older people with care needs in Europe. Our study focuses on investigating how gender, widowhood and living arrangement associate with the probability of receiving home and community-based care, while accounting for the shorter-term associations of transitions into widowhood (bereavement) and living alone, as well as the longer-term associations of being widowed and living alone. We use comparative, longitudinal data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (collected between 2004 and 2015 in 15 countries) specifying sex-disaggregated random-effects within-between models, which allow us to examine both cross-sectional and longitudinal associations among widowhood, l

SUBMITTER: Ilinca S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9326144 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature