Housing for care

ǂa ǂresponse to the post-transitional old-age gap?

Abstract

This article examines the trade-off between owned housing and old-age care in Slovenia where the population has been found outstandingly willing to enter residential care and also consume housing wealth for this purpose. To explain this peculiarity, a case study as a holistic in-depth analysis was conducted, combining multiple sources of quantitative survey data and qualitative interview-based insights and accounting for the institutional context and individual decisions. What was found was a modernised version of the traditional 'inheritance for care' exchange, whereby the inheritor partly finances the parent's residential care. This family-mediated trade-off between old-age care and housing wealth was found to serve as an informal equity-release scheme which in Slovenia helps bridge the post-transitional old-age gap, the syndrome of low pensions, underdeveloped care services and owner-occupied housing un-adapted to seniors. Moreover, it is hypothesised that this structural gap is common to other post-transitional countries.

Keywords

Lastništvo hiš;Ostarelost;Socialna varnost;Tranzicija;

Data

Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2016
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	UL FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
UDC:	316.334.54-053.88
COBISS:	33991517
ISSN:	1461-7269
Views:	1571
Downloads:	673
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Other data

Secondary language:	Slovenian
Secondary keywords:	Home ownership;Old age;Social security;Transition;
Type (COBISS):	Article
Pages:	str. 155-167
Volume:	ǂVol. ǂ26
Issue:	ǂno. ǂ2
Chronology:	2016
DOI:	10.1177/0958928716637140
ID:	9148367