Characteristics and Determinants of Intergenerational Financial Transfers Within Families Using Mixed Care for Elderly People

The provision of care to dependent elderly parents or parents-in-law is an important part of intergenerational exchange within families, especially in countries where the long-term care system is based predominantly on family care. However, in mixed-care networks, care tasks are shared between famil...

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Published in:Društvena istraživanja 2018-01, Vol.27 (1), p.27-46
Main Authors: Hlebec, Valentina, Filipovič Hrast, Maša
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult children
Analysis
Care and treatment
Caregivers
Demography and human biology
Elder care
Elderly
Elderly parents
Families & family life
Family and social welfare
Family relations
Finance
Home care
Home health care
Household size
Income
Intergenerational relationships
Intergenerational transmission
Law
Long term health care
Methods
Money transfer
Older people
Parents & parenting
Polls & surveys
Relatives
Social aspects
Socio-Economic Research
Welfare systems
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Summary:The provision of care to dependent elderly parents or parents-in-law is an important part of intergenerational exchange within families, especially in countries where the long-term care system is based predominantly on family care. However, in mixed-care networks, care tasks are shared between family members and formal carers. Additionally, adult children may need to financially help their parents, especially due to the financial burden that formal care places on the elderly. We used the Slovenian national survey of social home care users and their family members,collected in 2013, to observe the characteristics and determinants of intergenerational financial transfers in families that use mixed care, within dyads comprising a care recipient and a family caregiver. The findings show that there is a considerable proportion of financial exchange among the observed dyads. Furthermore, among the determinants, the income of the elderly person and amount of care received are important for financial flows upward (to the elderly parent) and downward (from the elderly parent). The concurrent flows differ; their main determinants are the carer's age, household size and education.
ISSN:1330-0288
1848-6096
DOI:10.5559/di.27.1.02