This paper focuses on the trade-off between formal and informal care for elderly dependents living at home in France. Using the French 2008 household Disability - Healthcare data and a newly built indicator of formal home-care prices in each French Council District, we wonder if fi nancial...

This article presents the results of an inquiry financed by the European Commission focused on the economic situation and the quality of life of the informal caregivers of demented elderly. The inquiry integrates 272 caregivers participating to six innovating care programs which include the...

This article deals with the supply and fi nuancing of long-term care in France for people aged 60 and more. Since the beginning of the 21st century substantial progress has been made in the institutional design of dependency coverage as well as in the development of specific programmes and...

This research suggests testing a model which allows comparing the answers of the older persons and the younger individuals to different advertising strategies. The results suggest that: (1) chronological age has an influence on affective and cognitive responses toward the different types of ads,...

This paper provides an econometric evaluation of the impact of two innovative care programs for elderly people with dementia (day-care centers and group-living) on the well-being of the primary caregiver of patients. For this evaluation, we use data from a survey conducted in six European...