Predictors of the Availability and Variety of Social Care Services for Older Adults: Comparison of Central European Countries

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01488376.2014.959150" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01488376.2014.959150</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01488376.2014.959150" target="_blank" >10.1080/01488376.2014.959150</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Predictors of the Availability and Variety of Social Care Services for Older Adults: Comparison of Central European Countries

Original language description

The aging of the European population represents a challenge for the current systems of social care services and in particular for the availability of individualized formal social care for older people. This article looks at 8 Central European countries and explores the contextual factors that boost or inhibit the development of these services, identifies the most important among them, and describes the specific contexts that are conducive to the development of social care services for older adults. Qualitative and quantitative data from Eurostat and the international project Housing and Home Care for the Elderly and Vulnerable People and Local Partnership Strategies in Central European Cities were analyzed using multidimensional scaling and multiple correspondence analysis. The results indicate that the availability and variety of social care services are above all linked to economic indicators, the age structure of the population, and un/employment rates. Moreover, the contextual fact

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AO - Sociology, demography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Social Service Research

ISSN

0148-8376

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

41

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

113-132

UT code for WoS article

000347533300009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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