Use of formal and informal care services among older people in Ireland and France.
This paper focuses on current use of elderly care services in Ireland and France. In light of health care resource allocation problems, it is important to know the level of current use of home care on which future projections may be based. With the availability of SHARE (Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe) data, it is now possible to analyse this process and estimate the relationship between formal and informal care, and our econometric model tests for endogeneity of informal care. Previous research has not included Ireland into the analysis. Given that Ireland has a younger population base, lessons could be learned from countries with older populations, such as France. Results suggest informal care is endogenous and negatively linked with formal care in the pooled (France and Ireland) model. There is a higher unmet need for care in Ireland. These results have important policy implications for Ireland as the demographic makeup will change from 11 per cent to 15 per cent of older people over the next 10 years.
Gannon
Brenda
B
Department of Economics, Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. brenda.gannon@nuigalway.ie
Davin
Bérengère
B
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006291:Health Policy; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007494:Ireland; D008297:Male; D018803:Models, Economic; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D040841:Resource Allocation / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013223:Statistics as Topic
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