Caregivers as comptrollers: women and long-term care and cost containment.
The emphasis on cost containment that was the hallmark of the Reagan Administration and the shifting of the burden for long-term care onto the informal sector have had a particularly negative impact on women. Women through caregiving are used to help control the public cost of long-term care. This unwritten policy is unlikely to be successful because of a number of factors: (1) the economic condition of women; (2) the lack of available and affordable community services; and (3) the types of social relationships we now have.
Wood
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JB
Institute for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco, USA.
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017028:Caregivers / Q000191:economics*; D003363:Cost Control; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000191:economics*; D008297:Male; D011640:Public Policy; D014481:United States; D014933:Women's Rights