20.500.12556/RUL-134693 How many older informal caregivers are there in Europe? comparison of estimates of their prevalence from three European surveys Informal caregivers are people providing some type of unpaid, ongoing assistance to aperson with a chronic illness or disability. Long-term care measures and policies cannot take place without taking into account the quantitatively crucial role played by informal caregivers. We use the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS), the European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS), and the Study on Health and Ageing in Europe (SHARE) to measure the prevalence of informal caregivers in the European population, and analyze associated socio-demographic factors. This rate ranges between about 13 percent in Portugal and Spain, and more than 22 percent in Luxembourg, Belgium, and Denmark. It declines in older age groups and, on average, is lower in men than in women in all countries studied, and lower among the poorly educated compared to those with higher levels of education. However, large variance was observed in the average share of informal caregivers for most countries between the three surveys. Our findings, estimated through the three surveys, reveal common trends, but also a series of disparities. Additional research will be needed to enable policy makers to access a richer and more harmonized body of data, allowing them to adopt truly evidence-based and targeted policies and interventions in this field. informal caregiver survey harmonization unpaid care neformalna oskrba neformalni oskrbovalci starejši demografski podatki Evropa true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2022-01-26 13:06:00 2022-01-26 13:06:06 2022-09-13 03:56:35 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2020 0 0 17 str. iss. 24, art. 9531 Vol. 17 2020 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 364 1660-4601 10.3390/ijerph17249531 43714819 RAZ_Tur-Sinai_Aviad_2020.pdf RAZ_Tur-Sinai_Aviad_2020.pdf 1 546B6B9122C1EE7A6DBE0907001E6C84 7384ea67f38789c4863c7f7dfd37df855a39800d27ac697a8c96aef32158e24a 7d6f2990-7ea0-11ec-abdb-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=153266 https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/24/9531 0 41eb2df1-7ea0-11ec-abdb-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=153265 Fakulteta za družbene vede 0 0 0