This article is focused on children providing and financing long-term care for their elderly parent. The aim of this work is to highlight the interactions that may take place among siblings when deciding whether or not to become a caregiver. We look at families with two children using data from...

This article is focused on children providing and financing long-term care for their elderly parent. The aim of this work is to highlight the interactions that may take place among siblings when deciding whether or not to become a caregiver. We look at families with two children using data from...

This paper seeks to analyze economic transfers relating to the financing of long-term care for the elderly, as they arise from court decisions on the legal duty to financially support ascendants. The first section reviews the computation of the support obligation based on a sample of...

After a summmary of the theoretical background of their research, the authors report two cases: two families of former agricultural workers in the region of Bordeaux, confronted with the French principle of “obligation alimentaire” [family support duty] towards the elderly : two old ladies,...

Dans la littérature économique, de nombreux travaux tentent d'expliquer pourquoi les individus s’assurent aussi peu contre la dépendance. Du côté de l’offre, différents freins possibles au développement du marché de l’assurance dépendance ont d’ores et déjà été pointés du...

The article seeks to analyse economic transfers resulting from the controversial implementation of rising maintenance obligations for retirement institution accommodation. The analysis of a sample of legal decisions concerning 305 people liable to maintenance obligations show that the setting of...

Cette communication propose d'analyser, dans une perspective économique, la mise en œuvre de l'obligation alimentaire dans le cadre du financement de la prise en charge de personnes âgées dépendantes. Il s'agit, à partir d'un échantillon de 305 personnes soumises à cette obligation, de...

With the population ageing, the expected increase in the long term care demand questions the role our societies want to entrust to family in the care provision for disabled elderly people. We use a micro-econometric framework to study individual and family caregiving behaviours. From a public...