CARE SHORTAGES IN LATER LIFE : THE ROLE OF INDIVIDUAL AND CONTEXTUAL VARIABLES IN FLANDERS, BELGIUM
Like many other European countries, Belgium has a strong policy of ‘ageing in place’. Older people are invited to stay as long as possible in their own home/environment. This policy is instigated by shortages in nursing homes and preferences of the older people themselves. Although Belgium is considered to have an effective social security system, 6.4 % of the older people living at home report care shortages. In order to analyze these care shortages, we us ed - data from our own survey, the Belgian Ageing Studies (BAS). In over 100 cities in Flanders, Belgium, a stratified sample was drawn fr... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2010 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanity Studies, Vol 2, Iss 1 (2010) |
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Social Sciences Research Society
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Schlagwörter: | History of scholarship and learning. The humanities / AZ20-999 / Social Sciences / H / Social sciences (General) / H1-99 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27471368 |
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Link(s) : | https://doaj.org/article/c3bbf732d96641a788e170866cfa1d3d |
Like many other European countries, Belgium has a strong policy of ‘ageing in place’. Older people are invited to stay as long as possible in their own home/environment. This policy is instigated by shortages in nursing homes and preferences of the older people themselves. Although Belgium is considered to have an effective social security system, 6.4 % of the older people living at home report care shortages. In order to analyze these care shortages, we us ed - data from our own survey, the Belgian Ageing Studies (BAS). In over 100 cities in Flanders, Belgium, a stratified sample was drawn from the population data, using gender and age as stratification. A sample of 64280 residents aged sixty and over was interviewed between January 2004 and December 2009. The results show that both individual, socio-demographic and contextual variables like regional differences, living conditions and housing are needed to explain care shortages among older people.