IN-CARE
How are varying care systems associated with inequalities in care and wellbeing in later life?
Brief description
In the three-year ORA (Open Research Area) project, we investigate whether and how different long-term care systems and recent reforms of long-term care within Europe and Japan are related to socioeconomic differences in the use of formal and informal care, health and well-being in later life. The study of specific characteristics of long-term care interventions provides theoretical evidence on inequalities in family, health and well-being in two ways. We explore which specific national policies implicitly or explicitly support family care and evaluate empirically whether such policies contribute to socioeconomic inequalities in family care. Second, we will investigate whether the health outcomes and well-being consequences of socioeconomic inequalities in older adults are related to key factors in long-term care. This should allow for a better understanding of the consequences of different care strategies for inequalities in care, health and well-being in later life and for targeted policy interventions.
Project term
04/2019-06/2023
Cooperation partners
Prof. Dr. M. Broese van Groenou, (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Prof. Dr. K. Glaser (King’s College London) und Prof. Dr. Yoko Ibuka (Keio University Tokyo)
Team of the TU Dortmund University
Prof. Dr. Martina Brandt (project leader), Dr. habil. Christian Deindl, Dr. Nekehia Quashie (University of Rhode Island, Department of Health Studies), Dr. Judith Kaschowitz, Lisa Jessee, Robert Heidemann, Dr. Melanie Wagner (Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging), Nanke Bechthold
Funding
German Research Foundation (ORA)
Publications
| 2023 | Le, D., N. Quashie, M. Brandt & Y. Ibuka: Wealth inequalities in physical and cognitive impairments across Japan and Europe: the role of health expenditure and infrastructure. International Journal of Health in Equity, 22, 123. |
| 2023 | Brandt, M., C. Deindl, G. Floridi, R. Heidemann, J. Kaschowitz, N. Quashie, E. Verbakel & M. Wagner. Social inequalities and the wellbeing of family caregivers across European care regimes. Journal of Family Research, 35, 181–195. |
| 2023 | Verbakel, E., K. Glaser, Y. Amzour, M. Brandt & M. Broese van Groenou: Indicators of familialism and defamilialization in long-term care: a theoretical overview and introduction of macro-level indicators. Journal of European Social Policy, 33, 1, 34-51. |
| 2022 | Brandt, M., J. Kaschowitz & N.T. Quashie: Socioeconomic inequalities in the wellbeing of informal caregivers across Europe. Aging and Mental Health, 26, 8, 1589-1596. |
| 2022 | Floridi, G., N.T. Quashie, K. Glaser & M. Brandt: Partner care arrangements and well-being in mid- and later life: The role of gender across care contexts. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 77, 2, 435-445. |
| 2022 | Quashie, N., M. Wagner, E. Verbakel & C. Deindl: Socioeconomic differences in informal caregiving in Europe. European Journal of Ageing, 19, 621-632. |
| 2020 | Kaschowitz, J. & P. Lazarevic: Bedeutung des Gesundheitsindikators bei der Analyse der Gesundheitsfolgen informeller Pflege. Anderer Indikator, anderes Ergebnis? Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie, 53, 1, 10-16. |
| 2019 | Knauthe, K. & C. Deindl (2019): Altersarmut von Frauen durch häusliche Pflege. Gutachten im Auftrag des Sozialverband Deutschland e. V. |
| 2019 | Wagner, M., A. Franke & U. Otto (2019): Pflege über räumliche Distanz hinweg. Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie, 52, 6, 529-536. |