Growing long-term care (LTC) needs represent a major challenge for our ageing societies. Understanding how utilization patterns of different types of care are influenced by LTC policies or changes in the population composition such as age patterns or health can provide helpful insight on how to...

Funktional differenzierte Gesellschaften entwickeln eine Vielzahl kultureller Kontexte. Interessant an den empirischen Forschungsarbeiten zum Thema „Arbeit und Gesellschaft“ ist der Blick auf kontextübergreifende Deutungen, da hiermit charakteristische Spannungsfelder des Sozialen...

Population aging and changing family patterns have made elder care an important issue. In 1994, German law-makers enacted a major reform in the country' s long-term care policy, the Dependency Insurance Act (DIA). How, and in what way, will the relative use of formal and informal long-term care...