Is the Availability of Informal Care Associated with a Lower Uptake in Formal Home Care? An Application to Personal Care in the Netherlands

Context: Long-term care (LTC) costs within member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are rising steeply, thereby presenting a challenge to the financial sustainability of most LTC systems. A seemingly attractive policy measure is to decrease the use of (expensive) publicly financed LTC and to increase the provision of informal care. Objectives: This paper assesses how 1) the use of publicly financed LTC and 2) the uptake of entitled LTC care are related to the availability of informal care. Our study only considers personal care as it might be more e... Mehr ...